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| The idea of ASIFA.NET |
Permanent Call for papers
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| Extraordinary General Assembly at Annecy 2003 |
Information for ASIFA Groups / Members
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Margaret Hale, founder of ASIFA San Francisco, died on February 16th |
sent by Karl Cohen,
23rd february 03
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Animated "Worlds" Conference Booking and Reservation form available |
sent by Suzanne Buchan, 26th february 03
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| "Animations" - Exhibition in Berlin |
found on animationjournal-list written by Karin Wehn, 26th february 03 |
| ARC (Animation Research Center) - New website launched |
sent by Suzanne Buchan, 1st march 03
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| "World Peace" - Student storyboard and animation competition |
sent by Mary Lou Haynes,
4th march 03
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| Festival News | |
| TOUGH EYE Festival (Turku, Finland) |
Interview with director Priit Pärn (Heikki Jokinen)
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| Cordoba Festival (Argentina) |
Call for entries
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| Anima Mundi Animation Festival (Brazil) |
Call for entries
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| Other Animation Festivals |
Close deadlines and upcoming festivals
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| The idea of ASIFA.NET : Permanent Call for Papers |
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The concept of the ASIFA Website, and particularily of the news-section, is TO SERVE AS AN OPEN PLATFORM, for all ASIFA Groups, ASIFA Offices and ASIFA members. It means, that all ASIFA members are invited, to send the material, which they want to be published to the editor@asifa.net, and it will appear at the next up-date. The coming dates for 2003:
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| Extraordinary General Assembly at Annecy 2003 : |
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General Information for all ASIFA member
The current ASIFA Board decided to hold an Extraordinary General Assembly - at the Annecy Festival in June - in order to take a decision about the proposed change of ASIFA's organisational structure. The main issue of the proposal is, that in the future the ASIFA Board should be composed of the representatives of all ASIFA Groups and ASIFA Offices (groups with less than 10 members). This "New ASIFA Board" should then decide about the composition of the "Executive Board", which will be responsible to organise the work and communication within ASIFA. This will be a smaller group of people, who will be responsible for clearly defined working fields. More information can be found at asifa.net/new.structure All ASIFA members and all leaders of local ASIFA Chapters are invited, to distribute this material, to initiate discussions, and to give feedback. You can e-mail to me at president@asifa.net, and you can post your opinion on our homepage (the link is also at asifa.net/new.structure). - One last very important thing: At an Extraordinary General Assembly we need 50% of the ASIFA members present or represented. (In case 50% is not given, the EGA is to be called 24 hours later, then one third would be sufficient.) Therefore it is very important, that many delegates from the ASIFA Groups come to this meeting, and that they bring enough proxies (other ASIFA members may assign their votes to them.) Therefore we ask the presidents of the local ASIFA Chapters to start collecting the proxies from their members, and to decide, who shall be the representative coming to Annecy 2003. If you need any help, please write to: ASIFA Secretary: at secretary@asifa.net or ASIFA President: at president@asifa.net See you in Annecy 2003 Best wishes Thomas Renoldner |
| Margaret Hale, a founder of ASIFA San Francisco, died on February 2003 |
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MARGARET HALE, A FOUNDER OF
ASIFA-SF, DIED FEB. 16 She was living near the home of her son Nick, in
Jacksonville, Oregon (near Ashland) when she had a heart attack. She was 76. Margaret spent over 20 years running ink and paint departments. In the early 1970's she was running the department at Imagination Inc. in San Francisco when Prescott Wright arranged for a group of his friends, Jeff and Margaret Hale, Les Goldman and David Hhapter resulted from that meeting and Margaret was an active member for many years. She was born and educated in England. Jeff met her when they were students at the Royal Academy of Art and he says she was one of the most beautiful women he had ever seen. They became a couple and moved to Canada in 1957 or '58. He found work at a commercial animation studio in Winnipeg and then at the National Film Board of Canada. When they moved to the US in 1964 Jeff became a director at Imagination, Inc. in San Francisco, and eventually they owned the company. One of Margaret's first big jobs was doing the ink and paint on Thank You Mask Man, 1968 (directed by Jeff and produced by John Magnuson). The company had a great reputation for their commercials and work for Sesame Street. When Imagination, Inc. closed in the late 1970's, her next big job was running the graphic's department for John Korty while he was making Twice Upon A Time. In 1980 Jerry Smith, a producer in LA, asked her to form the ink and paint department at Mill Valley Animation. She ran the department until the company closed in 1983. They produced lots of TV shows, mainly for Hanna- Barbera. Her friends say this was a wonderful period for her and she enjoyed working with her large staff. After Mill Valley she returned to England for about 18 months and then returned to San Francisco where she ran ink and paint services until the business was replaced by computers. Margaret was a wonderful person to know, as she was bright and an easy person to talk with. She had a jolly dry wit. Jeff told me she did a lot of great un-credited work over the years. Their daughter Margo told me that she was a woman of many talents and that at different times in her life (mainly in England) she found employment doing carpentry, painting lampshades, binding books and doing magazine illustrations. --- Karl Cohen |
| You find more news from ASIFA San Francisco at www.awn.com/asifa-sf |
| Animated 'Worlds' Conference - Booking and Reservation Form now available |
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Animated 'Worlds' Conference July 9-11, 2003 Farnham Castle International Conference Centre, England The Booking and Registration form for the forthcoming Animated 'Worlds' conference July 9-11 2003 in Farnham, England is now available on www.surrart.ac.uk/arc/news We would be grateful if you would post or forward this to your colleagues and students as appropriate. The conference description is available on the website and pasted in below. With thanks and kind regards Suzanne Buchan, Senior Fellow Head of the Animation Research Centre Faculty of Arts & Media Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College Falkner Road, Farnham, Surrey GB-GU9 7DS www.surrart.ac.uk/arc Tel:+44 (0)1252 892 806 --- Fax +44 (0)1252 892 787 --- Cell:+41 (0)79 459 2091 Queries can also be sent to: arcinfo@surrart.ac.uk Animated 'Worlds' is organised by the Animation Research Centre (ARC) at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College with support from, and in collaboration with, the Surrey Institute Research Fund, the Animation Department at the Royal College of Art, London, the international Society for Animation Studies (SAS), the British Artists' Film & Video Study Collection, Central St. Martins, London (AHRB Centre for Film & Television Studies), LUX, London and British Airways (other collaborations and support pending). |
| Animation Exhibition in Berlin - Report by Karin Wehn |
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"Animations" was originally presented at P.S.I. Contemporary Art Center in
New York, a Moma affiliate between October 2001 and January 2002, but it was
in some ways modified for Berlin. It addresses issues such as selfreferential animation, animation about animation, early Utopian beginnings of the art form in the 19th century, implications of living in a digital age, increasingly blurred borderlines of live-action-films and animation high-tech animation vs. low-tech-animation, and the boundaries between animation and architecture. "Animations" is set up on four different storeys which all address different topics: "Frankenstein's Laboratory", the room itself being a paper-installation with a zebra-like decor, deals with general animation techniques. "On the Web" features web-based projects such as webtoons, games and interactive art in three categories: interactive, stand-alone and multi-user. "No Ghost just a Shell" (the title alluding to Masamune Shiro's comic story "Ghost in a Shell") features the efforts by Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno to "save" the anime character Annlee from crossmedia utilization. The artists bought the ready-to-use 3D-character "Annlee" from a corporate agency and made it available for other artist to play with it. Several other artists collaborated on different episodes with Annlee. "The Folly" is a screening room where users can choose between a variety of recent animations to be watched on three video-screens. At the same floor is "At the cinema", where programs such as "ABCs of animation" (classics from James Stuart Blackton, Norman McLaren, Len Lye up to Aardman), "Tribute to Robert Breer", Hit's of the 90s (Bob's Birthday) and "Edges of Animation" about New York experimental artists alternate on a larger screen. All over the house there are other video-screens, installations and displays, for instance on the South African animator William Kentridge, who remediates early animation techniques such as charcoal drawings on static images and cut-out animation. Projects that stick in my mind were "Every Anvil" by Jennifer & Kevin McLoy who conducted a structural analysis of about 50 Looney Tunes and who re-organized the sequences in categories such as "every kick, every kick in the ass, every punching, every distorted body, every guilt" and so on. Another interesting project was the web-based "Day in, day out" by Alex and Munro Galloway, an animation in real-time which can only exist on the internet. An algorithm locates the physical location of the computer from which the "Day in, day out" website is being accessed, compares it actual information about the current weather-conditions in that area and transforms this information into a computer-generated image of a partly cloudy sky. But this is only a personal selection, there is a lot more to see. I liked about "Animations" that is was fresh, innovative, up-to-date and tradition-conscious at the same time. What was a bit annoying was that the individual rooms and sections are not properly sealed off so that the sound of neighboring movies/installations quite often drowns the sound in one's own section. While this may be due to the way the rooms have been constructed and maybe an impression of open space was intentional, I found it quite annoying that a member of staff in the screening room would chat with friends on her mobile during the whole screening. Thus, a lot of the sound was incomprehensible due to the ubiquitous noise. If you want to see it all - one afternoon may not be enough. The exhibition still runs until May 2003, a catalogue (20 Euro) is available. More information at www.kw-berlin.de Dr. Karin Wehn Universität Leipzig Institut für Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaften 04109 Leipzig Email: wehn@rz.uni-leipzig.de Private Homepage: www.karin-wehn.de Webproject: Animation on the Internet: www.animation-le.de.vu |
 Haluk Akakįe, Illusion of the First Time, 2002 triple channel DVD, Collection of the artist, Courtesy Deitch Projects, New York. Special thanks to The Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York 
Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé, Body, 2000 single channel DVD Courtesy of the artist and Thomas Erben Gallery, New York  Pierre Huyghe, No Ghost Just a Shell: Two Minutes out of Time, 2000 video installation with single channel DVD Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris/New York  William Kentridge, Untitled (video reversals), 2002 charcoal, pigment and turpentine on paper Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery New York/Paris |
| ARC Animation Research Center - Website launched |
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We are pleased to announce that the new Animation Research
Centre website is now up and running:
www.surrart.ac.uk/arc The website will be of of interest to educators, researchers, students, practitioners, industry and anyone curious about animation film. It contains information on the ARC, its Archive, projects and upcoming events. The Archive site contains images and detailed information on Halas & Batchelor Studios, one of Britains' foremost animation production houses with almost 60 years of activity. The website presents a small selection of the diversity and wealth of the ARC Archive that contains hundreds of thousands of non-film artefacts relating to other fields. Graphic design, journalism, cultural and media studies are just a few of the areas that may find illuminating relations between animation film and their own areas of study. The storyboards, drawings, photographs, press clippings, sound recordings and ephemera in the holdings that can be accessed by appointment. Suzanne Buchan |
| "World Peace" - Student Storyboard and Animation Competition |
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Attached you will find information regarding an upcoming student storyboard and
animation competition based on the theme of "World Peace". We are in our eighth year of the competition that rewards students for a storyboard idea of a short animation on their idea of how to achieve world peace. The winner receives funds to help underwrite the production of the storyboard into a finished animation. Upon completion the student wins additonal cash and other prizes. We are still accepting entries until April 1st, and ask you to please spread the word about our efforts. Thank you. Mary Lou Haynes David Daruszka |
| Click here for the info pdf-file or check the website www.hvh-worldpeace.org |
| TOUGH EYE Animation Festival - Preview |
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Heikki Jokinen, ASIFA Board Member from Finland, has asked the festival director Priit Pärn several questions about the TOUGH EYE Festival. One of the unique characteristics is the "Timeless Competition" - accepting films in competition without any time limit. The edition 2003 will offer among other programs a focus on animation from Japan. www.tough-eye.com |
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| You find more information at [ FESTIVAL ZONE ] at | Previews | or you can click here. |
| CÓRDOBA 2003 - II ANIMATION CELEBRATION |
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II CÓRDOBA INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL
From May 28th to 30th, the city of Córdoba, Argentina will again become a forum of international animation. The Córdoba 2003 II Animation Celebration will gather film and animation artists, academics, students and general public interested in the technique and the aesthetics of animation, in the second edition of an unique event in the city of Córdoba. The aims of this encounter are to draw a panorama of current Argentinian Animation; to ponder about animation production and aesthetics (both commercial and independent); and to spread new production and distribution techniques and proceedings. The Celebration will hold the II Edition of the Córdoba International Animation Festival, open to film, video and Internet animation productions. The Festival is specially interested in screening Latin American animation, and works produced in educational institutions. Registration of works is free of charge. There are two main categories a) Film and Video b) Internet Animation Rules, regulations and Entry Forms may be downloaded from www.ccec.org.ar/anima . REMEMBER! The Deadline is on April 11th, 2003. The Celebration will also hold a series of Seminars, Workshops, and special screenings. Information on such activities will be available online on February 2003. The Córdoba 2001 Independent Animation Celebration is organized by the Centro Experimental de Animación, University of Córdoba, Argentina; and the Centro Cultural Espaņa - Córdoba, Argentina; with the collaboration of the Cineclub Municipal "Hugo del Carril". For any further information or inquiry, please contact: Córdoba 2003 II Animation Celebration Centro Cultural Espaņa Córdoba Entre Ríos 40 (5000) - Córdoba ARGENTINA e-mail: anima@ccec.org.ar |
| Anima Mundi 2003 - Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo |
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CALL FOR ENTRIES
ANIMA MUNDI 2003, the 11th International Animation Festival of Brazil Deadline for entries: March 31st Dates of the festival: July 11 to 20 in Rio de Janeiro and July 23 to 27 in São Paulo. Competition for Short films, Films for children, Shorts in Video and Portfolio NO ENTRY FEES AUDIENCE AWARDS - 1st prize - Short Film - Best Animation for Children - Best Shorts in Video - Best Brazilian Animated Film - Best Brazilian Animated Video PROFESSIONAL JURY AWARDS - Best Film - Best Video - Best Brazilian Animation - Special Jury Award - First Animated Work Special Award - Best Portfolio Reel Contact: ANIMA MUNDI Rua Elvira Machado, 7 casa 5 Botafogo Rio de Janeiro - RJ - Brazil 22280-060 ph: (55 21) 2543-8860 fax: (55 21) 2541-7499 email: info@animamundi.com.br web: www.animamundi.com.br |
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C L O S E E N T R Y D E A D L I N E S ANIMA MUNDI / Brazil - animamundi.com.br - March 31, 2003 (Festival Date: Rio de Janeiro: July 11 - 20 / Sao Paolo: July 23 - 27) CORDOBA / Argentina - ccec.org.ar/anima - April 11, 2003 (Festival Date: May 28 - 30) SAFO OTTAWA / Canada - www.awn.com/ottawa/safo03 - July 02, 2003 (Festival Date: Oct 16 - 19) U P C O M I N G E V E N T S Goldfish 2003 - MOSCOW / Russia - children-animation.ru - March 30 - April 06, 2003 Cartoons on the Bay - POSITANO / Italy - cartoonsbay.com - April 09 - 13, 2003 DRESDEN / Germany - filmfest-dresden.de - April 15 - 20, 2003 "Anifest" TREBON / Czech Republic - anifest.cz - May 05 - 10, 2003 "Animerte Dager" FREDERIKSTAD / Norway - animertedager.no - May 06 - 11, 2003 "Tough Eye" TURKU / Finland - tough-eye.com - May 14 - 18, 2003 For more festival info bookmark http://asifa.net/festival/calendar |
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