Animated Worlds
Animated Worlds:
temporarily suspended
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Animated Worlds presents… The films of Yuri Norstein
16th May 2010
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
‘Drawing Class’ and ‘Nap’ screening at Arteleku, Spain
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.’
http://www.arteleku.net/program/animac-in-arteleku?set_language=en
‘Drawing Class’ and ‘Nap’ screening at ANIMAC 2010, Spain
22nd- 28th February 2010
The Lost Objects of Childhood
Selection of shorts including ‘Nap’ and ‘Drawing Class’ curated by Deborah Levy
http://www.animac.info/animac/ENG/index.asp
The Boy Who Spoke Moomoo wins second prize at Commonwealth Vision Awards
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 at Videoholica, Varna, Bulgaria
‘Nap’ screening
5 August 2009 – 21.00, Puppet Theater/ Backyard
Tricky Women festival of animated film, Vienna, Austria, Awarded Animations 2007
http://videoholica.org/en_2009.htm
Nap in Exposures UK Student Film Festival, Manchester
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
Drawing Class in Anilogue, Budapest, Hungary
Animation festival Anilogue screens drawing Class at the Toldi cinema in Budapest, Hungary, 2007
http://anifest.hu/hu/animated.html
Nap at the Roxy screen and bar, London
Nap screening at the Roxy screen and bar, London
8th August, 2007
http://www.roxybarandscreen.com/listings.php?event=341
Drawing Class in Exeter as part of ‘Big Small People’
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 – ‘Books of the Month’ The Hindu, September 2005
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
