Directly after the talkshows on Friday to Sunday there will be lectures from filmmakers or specialists in  visual culture. With Chao Wu (Happen), Anton Damen (games) and Wendy Morris (committed films).
Chao Wu talks on Friday about Happen, an installation with four screens and four paintings, using sensitive animation and sound to address the influence social and economic changes have on the individual. Her work focuses on the human being, the essence of man and how the individual finds his way in a changing society. Chao Wu herself calls it ‘experimental animation theatre’.   
Film journalist and Algemeen Dagblad game reviewer Anton Damen presents a number of games to which animators made a key or special contribution. From large-scale studio productions to work from the indie corner, from recent masterly examples to old acquaintances and classics, take for instance Dominique Pomplemousse, Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze, Rayman Legends and South Park The Stick of Truth. 
On Sunday Wendy Morris talks about committed films. She made Heir to the Evangelical Revival, a film about religious-historical baggage. She is a descendant of French Huguenots and English Protestant missionaries who emigrated to South Africa but  is atheist-apostate-agnostic herself. In the film she confronts her contradictory reactions to this inherited evangelical background.

This program screened as part of HAFF 2014