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Mountain View Studios in
Woodstock 9/20, 3:00pm - $8
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Curated and hosted by Bill Plympton
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BATHTIME IN
CLERKENWELL
An animated film
by Alex Budovsky
U.S.A / 2002 /
3:14 minutes
The story of the
great revolution of British cuckoos who take over London,
and force people to
move inside their cuckoo clocks.
Bio:
Alex
Budovsky was born in
St-Petersburg,
Russia,
January 21st 1975. In 2000, he graduated from
Brooklyn
College
with an emphasis on Film. Then in 2002 he produced two animated
music videos
for the British band (The Real) Tuesday Weld: “Terminally Ambivalent Over You”
and “Bathtime in Clerkenwell”.
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BIB VS. TOB
An animated film
by Wotomoro
U.S.A / 2003 / 5
minutes
“Bib Vs. Tob” is
a short animated movie featuring a sport newscast broadcast from space.
Strange creatures are playing an alien ball game in this movie entirely done
by Wotomoro.
Bio:
Wotomoro is
an artist specialized in animation and visual communication. For the past 15
years Wotomoro worked between Montreal and New York. A senior 3D animator for
R/GA in
New York, and he spent a few years in
advertising doing graphic design and art direction.
Main Credits
Writer/Director/Producer/Animator/Editor: Wotomoro
Music/Voice/Sound Effects: wotomoro, Uncle Output, DJ Pocket
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CAT DANCE
An animated film by Julianna Cox
U.S.A / 2003 / 4 minutes / DV / School of Visual Arts
Synopsis/Bio
This SVA/Dusty Award winning stop motion animated film features cats
constructed out of chenille pipe cleaners, a technique that Woodstock’s very
own Julianna Cox has been mastering since she was a child. According to her
family, Julianna also mastered the technique of actually being a cat at a
young age, even going so far as to cutting a hole for her tail into her
clothing.
Of her unique technique, Cox says "I believe the use of pipe cleaners gives my
characters a unique character, and allows them to have almost unlimited
flexibility in their movements. The main cat's name is Chainsaw, and he likes
to dance."
Also screening with “Shelter Dogs” @
Bearsville
Theater9/19, 5:00pm
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DEAR, SWEET EMMA
An animated film by John Cernak
U.S.A / 2003
/ 5:17 minutes
As the search is given up for Emma's latest husband, Tucker, a private look
reveals that Emma has a secret and uncontrollable dark side. The sweetest
angel and favorite citizen of Fishtickle would indeed pose an uncomfortable
dilemma for all if her problems were ever found out. Modeling and animation
was produced in Lightwave 3d. After Effects was used for compositing. Editing
was done on a Video Toaster System. Out of Our Minds Images produced the
piece from concept to final in the course of two months with a six person
staff.
Bio:
Out of Our Minds Images was established in January 2000 as a 3D animation and
special effects studio. Its six founding members were award-winning artists
of all trades (designers, illustrators, painters, photographers, sculptors),
fascinated by the revolution taking place in the animation industry. The
company quickly saw many sleepless nights as it embarked on its first
television projects. Within two years, it had already produced several
regional, and a few nationally recognized, fully digital commercials and
provided the digital effects for “The Rough South of Larry Brown”, an
independent feature about the career of the writer.
Main credits:
Director/screenwriter: John Cernak
Producers: Out Of Our Minds Images
Cinematographer/Lead Animator/Post Production Sound Design: Danny Oakley
Animator/Graphics: Derek Cernak
Voice Talent: Gene Johnson
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website
Also screening
with “Particles of Truth” @
MT.
View in
Woodstock
9/20, 5:15pm & CMFT in Hunter 9/21, 12:30pm
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DELIVERY
An animated film
by Patrick Smith
U.S.A / 2003 /
8:15 minutes
Abuse leads to
rage as two friends compete for a delivered package. Was the result of this
conflict worth the prize found within the box? “Delivery” deals with the
realistic consequences of rage and violence, even within a cartoon setting.
Self taught animator Patrick Smith lives and works in New York City. His
previous film, the award winning short "Drink" has been in over 50 film
festivals world-wide. Smith is currently working on his 3rd independent short,
to be released this fall. He's 31 years old.
Visit the
website
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EDUCATIONAL TOYS FOR PRECOCIOUS TOTS
An animated film
by Elanna Allen
Precocious tots
learn by playing with toys.
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EYE
SPY
An animated film by Biljana Labovic
USA / 2001 / 3 minutes 30 seconds / beta sp
A girl’s inner world is filled with dreams and memories. She peeks into her
own heart to
find the forgotten feelings. She is her own personal spy.
Bio:
Biljana Labovic
originally comes from Yugoslavia, where she studied graphic design and
illustration at the
University of
Arts. There she
illustrated children’s books, and upon winning a scholarship from UNICEF in
1997, she moved to New York to study animation at the School of Visual Arts.
In New York, she has been working as a freelance animator on commercial
animation projects and with acclaimed independent animators, including Faith
and Emily Hubley, and Bill Plympton. She lives and works in New York. Eye
Spy is her sixth short film.
Main credits:
Director,
producer, screenwriter, cinematographer: Biljana Labovic
Editor: Vinz Feller
Composer: Stephen Chopek
Cast: Maxine Dannatt, Delphine Burns
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FRED’S BOX
An animated film
by Aaron Hughes
U.S.A / 2003 /
7:33 minutes (School of Visual Arts)
Can life survive
inside of a box? This is a story about a man who innocently and
unwillingly
discovers the truth, when he is pulled into a world he did not know
exists- an
infinite world inside of a box.
Bio:
A recent
graduate of the
School
of Visual Arts, Aaron currently resides in New York City. He has a passion for
writing short stories and bringing them to life through animation.
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MOOD MOTIONS
An animated film
by W.P. Murton
U.S.A / 2002 / 6
minutes
“Mood Motions”
is the latest masterpiece from genius cineaste, W.P. Murton. It concerns the
subtleties and deconstruction of abstract forms and avant-garde electronic
music.
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PARALLEL
Directed by Andre LeBlanc
2003 / Canada / 5 minutes
Parallel’s world comprises solely of mass production and industry.
Within its factories,
countless assembly lines produce humanlike figures called drones, created to
carry out the
menial tasks of such a world. The production is endless, and the cycle
of these drones seems infinite. However, a slight malfunction on one of
the assembly lines causes a single drone to
snap to life. This drone, unique only in personality, is pushed out into
a world of ordered chaos, forced to come to terms with his own identity.
Bio:
Andre LeBlanc
grew up in New Brunswick, Canada, where he first developed his interest in
film. After receiving a degree in Computer Science from the University of New
Brunswick, and working as a programmer, he decided to go back to school.
Andre moved to British Columbia, where he attended Vancouver Film School to
study classical animation, followed by two years of Computer Animation at
Sheridan College in Toronto. Andre recently relocated to San Francisco to
work on the upcoming Shrek sequel for PDI/DreamWorks.
Main credits:
Producers: Wendy Brandt, Frederick Chu, Ren Kikuchi
Screenwriters: Wendy Brandt, Frederick Chu, Judy Gao, Ren Kikuchi, Andre
LeBlanc, Alan Lee, Karin Staley
Director of Photography: Ren Kikuchi
Original Score: Ralph Schmidt
Editor: Andre LeBlanc
Cast: Jason McDonald.
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ROOF SEX
An animated film
created by PES
U.S.A / 1:10
minutes
"XXX
Chair-on-Chair Action!!!"
Bio:
Like anyone, PES
saw his share of movies growing up, but was never fascinated by them or the
process of making them. In fact he didn’t really understand what a director
really did until he had an idea (“Bomber”) and he didn't want anyone to mess
it up, so he had to learn how to make it himself. While films are a
relatively recent development for him, he started painting at an early age. He
also studied printmaking for 4 years like an obsessive-compulsive disorder. He
made his own illuminated manuscripts with text and illustration, very much in
the vein of Bibles from the 15th century. These illuminated manuscripts made
him recognize that he really wanted to tell stories and that film might be
better suited for it. When his ideas started to mutate from
printmaking/painting concepts into film ideas, that's when he realized he had
to learn how to make them.
Main Credits:
Director, screenwriter, animator: PES
Editor: Sam Welch/Homestead Editorial NYC
Cinematographer: Mai Iskander
Producers: PES & Sarah Phelps
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website
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THE SPIRIT OF
GRAVITY
A mini-musical
directed by Victor Bellomo and David Pace
U.S.A / 2003 /
5:45 minutes / B&W
Synopsis:
Inspired by
Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, “The Spirit of Gravity” is an
animated mini-musical, in which Nietzsche sings his philosophy to a small
town, arousing the villagers to join him in defying the forces of nature. “The
Spirit of Gravity” is a visual poem that explores the meaning, beauty and
mystery of Nietzsche’s great work. The animation is composed of thousands of
collaged photographic images, which have been animated using both traditional
and digital techniques. The film’s soundtrack is an original song composed by
the filmmakers and is informed by the philosophy, imagery and humor of “Thus
Spoke Zarathustra”.
Bio:
Victor Bellomo
and David Pace grew up together in Sunnyvale, California, where they
collaborated on theater projects, radio dramas, and experiments in music and
sound. In 1992, they formed Latex Chipmunk Productions and have produced
numerous short films and projects incorporating puppetry, animation, and
multimedia. Their work has appeared in film festivals internationally and on
television. “The Spirit of Gravity” is part of their series of short films
based on the work of great philosophers.
Main Credits:
Writers/Directors/Animators/Music: Victor Bellomo, David Pace
Digital Animator: Brendan Bellomo
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website
Also screening with “Milk & Honey”
@ MT. View in
Woodstock 9/20, 1:00pm & Upstate in Rhinebeck 9/21, 1:30pm
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WOMAN
(Seviette)
An animated
short by Signe Baumane
Latvia / 2003 /
10 minutes
A visual poem
about the creation of a woman and her two encounters with a man - in one she
brings him Death, in the other she gives him Love.
Bio:
In 1991, Signe made her debut as scriptwriter, director, and artist with a
two-minute animated film, “The Witch and the Cow”. Her next film, “Tiny
Shoes” (1993), would go on to take the Grand Prix at the International Women's
Film Festival in Minsk, 1995.
In September
of 1995 she moved to New York City where, in January 1996, she started work as
production manager, color stylist, and cel painter for
Bill Plympton's
animated feature “I Married a Strange Person”. She subsequently worked on
several other Bill Plympton short films: “Sex and Violence” (1997), “The
Exciting Life of a Tree” (1998), “More Sex and Violence” (1998), an MTV pilot
“Helter Shelter” (1998), “Surprise Cinema” (1999), “Eat” (2001) and took over
production of Bill's newest feature animation “Mutant Aliens” in the summer of
2000. Signe also worked as production manager and art supervisor for two
films of an independent animator, Debra Solomon, “Everybody's Pregnant”(1997),
and “The Parable of the Clown” (1998), a spot for HBO. In November 1998 she
completed her fourth animated film, her first made in
America,
“Love Story”. In early 2002 she completed animated short “Five Fucking
Fables”. Shortly afterward, she returned to Latvia, where she was given Film
Center Foundation and Culture Capital's grants to make a ten-minute film.
Besides
doing animation Signe has also worked as an illustrator for children's books
at
Santillana Publishing House,
Puerto Rico. Since the Fall of 2000 she has been teaching
animation at Pratt
Institute, and is publishing a novel about her adventures in
New York
in Una,
a Latvian women's magazine.
Main Credits
Animators:
Taiga Sile, Dita Masena, Ieva Smite
Producer:
Vilnis Kalnaellis
Original
Score: Olafs Stals
Screenwriter,
editor: Signe Baumane
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Tinker Street, Upstate Films and the
Catskill Mountain Foundation Theater are 35mm facilities.
Upstate and CMFT will also screen beta sp
and digibeta films.
Bearsville, Mountain View, WCC are are
beta sp & digibeta
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