ASIFA Seattle eNews Archive

October 19, 2008

The 10th Annual Animation Show of Shows! Saturday, October 25th 3:00-5:00 PM DigiPen Institute of Technology Art Campus 8273 154th Avenue NE, Redmond, WA 98052 map and directions ASIFA Seattle is proud to present Ron Diamond, co-founder of the Animation World Network and Executive Producer of Acme Filmworks as he returns to present a program of award winning animation that spans the globe. Those who have seen Ron's shows in the past, know the exceptional quality of work he presents starting with the Interational Tourney of Animation and now The Animation Show of Shows. Special thanks to DigiPen Institute who generously donated the use of their screening room. This program is for full-time animation students, current working animation professionals and ASIFA members only. It is not open to the general public due to copyright licensing issues.

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In This Issue:

10th Annual Animation Show of Shows
Local Screenings
ASIFA Seattle forums
Classes and Workshops

Local Screenings

Northwest Film Forum 1515 12th Ave, Seattle WA 98122
www.nwfilmforum.org
206-329-2629

JAZZ ANIMATION FROM THE HUBLEY STUDIO
(John and Faith Hubley, USA, 1957—75, 35mm, 70 min)
Presented by:
Music Movies
Family Frames
Earshot Jazz Films
November 1—2, Saturday—Sunday at 5:00PM

Beginning in the 1950s, the wonderfully imaginative and innovative films of independent animators John and Faith Hubley broke from traditional styles of animation and addressed important issues with intelligence, passion and humor. Their poetic sensibility and whimsical, impressionistic visual style (more reminiscent of painters Klee and Miro than Disney) lent itself perfectly to jazz music. "There’s something about jazz’s bending of time within a rigid format that also applies to animation," Faith Hubley once observed. "That’s why they work so well together. It’s a marriage made in heaven." This special program highlights the best of the Hubleys’ jazz films, featuring their collaborations with such musicians and composers as Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Quincy Jones, Benny Carter, and others.

This film is rated G and is appropriate for all ages.

PUNTO Y RAYA
(Various directors and countries, 2002—2007, 65 min)
Presented by: Northwest Film Forum and Third Eye Cinema
November 13, Thursday at 8:00PM

Buenos Aires-based artist and organizer with MAD (Moviment d’Alliberament Digital) Nöel Palazzo introduces an engaging selection of contemporary experimental animated films in which artists from England, Spain, Germany, Japan, the United States and Canada explore graphics, abstraction and synesthesia. Culled from the most recent Punto Y Raya Festival, a collaboration of Mad-Actions and the iota Center, this special program surveys the currents of “visual music” with films by Chris Casady, Joaquin Gil, Danielle Ye, Laurie Gibbs, Tom Jobbins, Bret Battey and many others.

2D or Not 2D Festival
Pacific Science Center
November 14—15 2008
www.pacsci.org/imax
Festival Website www.2dornot2d.org

The 2D OR NOT 2D ANIMATION FESTIVAL is coming to Seattle’s Imax Theater in the Pacific Science Center on November 14th & 15th, 2008. A not to miss event featuring amazing animation, incredible speakers, awards presentations, animation workshops and a gala event packed into 2 days. All in our own backyard! Festival Program

The Festival is presented by the Animaticus Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving, teaching and evolving the artform of 2D animation in a digital world

ASIFA Seattle Forums

Classes and Workshops

Northwest Film Forum
www.nwfilmforum.org

Optical Printing and Direct Animation
Four Saturdays, Nov. 1, 8, 15 & 22, 12-3pm
Cost: $130 ($100 WigglyWorld Members)
Instructor: Jon Behrens
Class limit: 8

In this very hands-on class, filmmakers will learn direct animation techniques like painting, bleaching, scratching and dying 16mm celluloid film stock and then learn how to create magic using NWFF's JK Optical Printer-an age old and nearly forgotten device used to re-photograph motion picture film with dazzling results by learning basic and not so basic optical printer skills. At the end of four weekends students will have contributed to the making of a short experimental film that will be very colorful and beautiful.

That's all for now...

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