March 5th-9th, 2012
Arbeiterkammer Wien, the Austrian institution for rights concerning employment and working conditions will screen Nap on their website as a “film of the week” in March (around the International Women´s Day)
www.wien.arbeiterkammer.at
6 pm onwards, 20th February- screening of Nap and Drawing Class in selection of NID/RCA graduates’ animation films, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt, followed by Q&A session with audience
http://www.bibalex.org/Events/EventDetails_EN.aspx?ID=10448
22nd February, screening of Nap and Drawing Class in selection of NID/RCA graduates’ animation films, Faculty of Fine Arts, Luxor University, Luxor, Egypt
23rd February, narrative construction workshop with students of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Luxor University, Luxor, Egypt
http://egypt.asifa.net/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNTO7dTgOos
25th February, screening of Nap and Drawing Class in selection of NID/RCA graduates’ animation films, Dina’s Hostel, Cairo, Egypt
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“The Big Bandicoot is a wonderfully memorable character and Pooja Pottenkulam’s drawing, on p. 108, of the bandicoot biting the clerk’s thick hairy ankle is so funny it deserves a medal. (Another illustration that had me in splits was Rishabh taking a bath on p. 54.)”
www.saffrontree.org
“Pooja Pottenkulam has added her own quirky touches which are apt for my story. There are about 10-12 illustrations including two full-page ones. Pooja was the correct choice for the book as the previous illustrations that were done seemed generic rather than unique.” Monideepa Sahu in an interview with the Bangalore Mirror
www.bangaloremirror.com
“The illustrations by Pooja Pottenkulam complement Sahu’s limpid prose.”
www.telegraphindia.com
Animated Worlds:
temporarily suspended
for more info:
www.cinephilia.co.uk
Article compiled for Film and Festivals magazine about Independent animation in and around the UK. With contributions from:
Paul Wells, writer and academic
David Retamero Lopez, animation filmmaker
Tim Webb, animation filmmaker and senior tutor, Royal College of Art
Ian Gouldstone, animation filmmaker
Nag Vladermersky, festival director, LIAF
Tony Comley, animation filmmaker
Christoph Steger, animation filmmaker
Paul Ward, writer and academic
Martin Pickles, animation filmmaker
Marie Paccou, animation filmmaker
Max Hattler, animation filmmaker
Clare Kitson, author and C4 commissioning editor for animation (1989-1999)
www.filmandfestivals.com
4th March 2010, Arteleku, Spain
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.’
www.arteleku.net
22nd- 28th February 2010
The Lost Objects of Childhood
Selection of shorts including ‘Nap’ and ‘Drawing Class’ curated by Deborah Levy
www.animac.info
The second prize was won by Pooja Pottenkulam of India/UK and Ambjorn Elder of UK/Sweden for their joint entry ‘The Boy Who Spoke Moomoo’, an animated and allegorical story illustrating how, according to reports by UNESCO, by 2100 half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth may disappear. Many of these languages have never been recorded or documented. The result? A wealth of knowledge about about human nature, history, culture and the natural environment is also lost…
http://www.theecologist.org/tv_and_radio/tv/277558/climate_change_through_the_eyes_of_an_inuit_boy.html
http://www.thecommonwealthnews.org/news/34580/34581/210689/020709visionawards.htm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article6578747.ece
‘Nap’ screening
5 August 2009 – 21.00, Puppet Theater/ Backyard
Tricky Women festival of animated film, Vienna, Austria, Awarded Animations 2007
www.videoholica.org
Exposures UK Student Film Festival 2007 screens ‘Nap’ as part of a programme called ‘Everyday Monsters’
Wednesday, 5th December, 2007 at the Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
http://www.cornerhouse.org/film/info.aspx?ID=2543&page=0
Animation festival Anilogue screens drawing Class at the Toldi cinema in Budapest, Hungary, 2007
www.anifest.hu
Nap screening at the Roxy screen and bar, London
8th August, 2007
http://www.roxybarandscreen.com/listings.php?event=341
The Camera Obscura School of Art in Tel Aviv, Israel, initiated the Big Small People animation project in 2005, choosing the 52 articles of the United Nations Conventions of Children’s Rights from a list of concerns identified by UNESCO as needing support.
They approached other Animation Schools and students from in America, Britain, France, Germany, Hungary, India and Israel who responded enthusiastically to the brief, each student giving a different perspective on the fairly overwhelming governmental document.
Big Small People’ is an international collaboration between 7 animation schools, focusing on children’s rights.
All over the world students have worked on films that highlight and personalise one of the 52 articles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
http://bigsmallpeople.wordpress.com/2007/02/05/drawing-class-2/
A Flower’s Song: Zakir Husain; illustrations by Pooja Pottenkulam (published by Young Zubaan. Rs. 60. Ages 4 and above): A philosophical story with simple illustrations of a gul-I-abbas seed which breaks out from her safe and warm home, grows towards light and life, knowing well that it would one day fall and die. Still the flower discovers its joy in life and its purpose for blooming.
http://www.hindu.com/mp/2005/09/05/stories/2005090500360700.htm
