The client required an eight sided logo based on a drawing that they provided. The logo was created by manipulating a piece of ribbon manually and then digitally. Following the design of the logo, the company’s business cards, letterhead and promotional material were created. www.quantol.com is currently under construction.

16th May 2010
ANIMATED WORLDS presents The Films of Yuri Norstein

Yuri Norstein (born September 15th, 1941)is an award winning Russian animator best known for his shorts ‘Hedgehog in the Fog’ and ‘Tale of Tales’. He originally trained as a cabinet maker and painted as a hobby. He joined Soyusmultfilm, the USSR’s largest film studio, in 1961 to learn animation.

Norstein’s work is lyrical and non-linear evoking a sense of mystery and nostalgia, something the director himself refers to as visual memory. Dealing with childrens’ subjects and nursery rhymes, his complicated and sad films are more for an adult audience reflecting on their youth rather than for children. working with small, largely uncredited production team, he is generally assisted by his wife, Francesca Yarbusova, cameraman Alexander Zhukovsky and composer M.Meerovich. After leaving Soyusmultfilm in 1986, Norstein has been working on a film based on Gogol’s ‘The Overcoat’, funding it’s production through the sale of his drawings and through teaching.

The 8th episode of Animated worlds will include the screening of all of Yuri Norstein’s films to date. Animation filmmaker Martin Pickles will be present to introduce the audience to the life and works of Yuri Norstein.

For information on Martin Pickles go to: www.martinpickles.com

The British Dental Association Museum was one of six medical history museums in a participatory film making scheme. Medicine at the Movies, funded by NIACE (The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education), seeks to engage different groups in communicating by film.

As part of the project, Bhavesh Hindocha, a live-action filmmaker and Pooja Pottenkulam, animation filmmaker, led a group of 7 mentally disabled participants through the making of their own live action and animation films.

The final outcome is a 15 minute documentary that records their experience of the workshops held at the British Dental Association. The animation shorts are included within the longer film.

Feliz, coloured cut-glass animation on paper, colour, 36 seconds, 2010
Savaas, paper cut out animation, colour, 30 seconds, 2010

Screenings
Medicine at the Movies Premier, Thakray Museum, Leeds, Saturday, 13th March, 2010

Related Links
www.bda.org/museum
www.elfrida.com
www.loudminority.co.uk

Yuri Norstein (born September 15th, 1941)is an award winning Russian animator best known for his shorts ‘Hedgehog in the Fog’ and ‘Tale of Tales’. He originally trained as a cabinet maker and painted as a hobby. He joined Soyusmultfilm, the USSR’s largest film studio, in 1961 to learn animation.

Norstein’s work is lyrical and non-linear evoking a sense of mystery and nostalgia, something the director himself refers to as visual memory. Dealing with childrens’ subjects and nursery rhymes, his complicated and sad films are more for an adult audience reflecting on their youth rather than for children. working with small, largely uncredited production team, he is generally assisted by his wife, Francesca Yarbusova, cameraman Alexander Zhukovsky and composer M.Meerovich. After leaving Soyusmultfilm in 1986, Norstein has been working on a film based on Gogol’s ‘The Overcoat’, funding it’s production through the sale of his drawings and through teaching.

The 8th episode of Animated worlds will include the screening of all of Yuri Norstein’s films to date. Animation filmmaker Martin Pickles will be present to introduce the audience to the life and works of Yuri Norstein.

For more information on how to attend go to: www.cinephilia.co.uk/west
For more information on Martin Pickles go to: www.martinpickles.com

A group of 6 year old primary school students were asked to each think of a feeling that they could not reavel to each other. They then created characters out of plasticine and pipe cleaners. After the characters were created, students paired up and were asked to use their characters to express the secret emotion that they had chosen, using stop-motion animation. Once the first of the pair had expressed their emotion, the second student would react to the first student’s emotion with their own character and secret emotion.

The still and the two films included are ‘Nauseous vs Nauseous’ and ‘Tired vs Happy’.

Screenings
Osmani Primary School, Tower Hamlets

The Lost Objects of Childhood
Selection of shorts curated by Deborah Levy

‘The idea that repressed anxieties and desires are embodied by objects is well established in the literature of psychoanalysis. The films selected for The Lost Objects of Childhood broaden the application of this dynamic to animation. These five films resemble postmodern fairy tales for adults. Their subject is often the experience of childhood – its passions, longings, mysteries and magical thinking. Some of the films take place in domestic enviroments that offer surreal possibilities, others in landscapes that juxtapose social realities with imagined worlds. All of the films share an interest in creating a visual grammar for the unconscious.’
http://www.arteleku.net/program/animac-in-arteleku?set_language=en