For those in the Portland, Oregon area, the Northwest Film Center is hosting “An Evening with Joanna Priestley” on Saturday, January 28th. The event is part of the Center’s Northwest Tracking series celebrating its 40th anniversary. Priestley is one of my favorite filmmakers who I’ve written about before. (See my article I wrote for Skwigly [...]
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An Evening with Joanna Priestley
January 15th, 2012 · No Comments · Filmmakers, Independent animators, Screenings, Short films
Tags: Eye Liner·Joanna Priestley·Northwest Film Center·Out of Shape
Atlanta/L.A. Screenings: Bizarro Sat Morning & Christine Panushka/Alberto Araiza
October 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Independent animators, Screenings
This Tuesday, October 20th, at 7:30 pm, in conjunction with ASIFA-Atlanta, C. Martin Croker returns to the Plaza Theatre, in Atlanta with the second of his Bizarro Sat Morn! shows this season, featuring a program of cartoons on 16mm, which has been described as "An oddball mash-up of nostalgia and bits of o’ weird-o coolness," [...]
Tags: Alberto Araiza·ASIFA-Atlanta·C. Martin Croker·Christine Panushka·Mosca and the Meaning of Life·Plaza Theatre (Atlanta)
Georgia Animation on My Mind Q&A
September 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Filmmakers, Independent animators, Screenings
On Friday night, July 10th, ASIFA-Atlanta put on a screening of locally-made animated films at the Woodruff Art Center’s Rich Auditorium. The event, which was made possible by the High Museum of Art, was put on as part of the 21st Annual Society for Animation Studies Conference being held that weekend at the Atlanta campus [...]
Tags: American animation filmmakers·ASIFA-Atlanta·High Museum of Art·Society for Animation Studies
The Animation of Alexeïeff DVD
August 26th, 2009 · No Comments · DVDs, Independent animators
A new DVD release of interest from Facets The Animation of Alexeïeff featuring the pinscreen films of Alexeïeff and his wife Claire Parker, including such famed shorts as Night on Bare Mountain (1933) and The Nose (1963), along with commercials and documentaries, including The Pinscreen (Norman McLaren, 1973), as well as Jacques Droulin’s Mindscape, a [...]
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Nina Paley Onstage at Ebertfest
May 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Filmmakers, Independent animators
Film historian Kristin Thompson, in reporting on the screening of Nina Paley’s Sita Sings the Blues at this year’s Eberfest (Roger Ebert’s Film Festival hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s College of Media), includes a transcript of a discussion with Paley and animation scholar (and old buddy) Richard Leskosky (seen above). In it [...]
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Nina Paley’s Sita Sings the Blues on the Big Screen in Atlanta and Online
March 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Feature films, Independent animators, Screenings
Nina Paley‘s Sita Sings the Blues, the highly-acclaimed animated feature whose distribution has been hampered by copyright problems, will have a special screening sponsored by ASIFA-Atlanta at the Plaza Theatre (1049 Ponce De Leon Ave. Atlanta 30306. 404 873-1939), Wednesday, March 11th, at 7:30 p.m. Prices are $8 for ASIFA-Atlanta members and $10 for non-members [...]
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"Cartoons Without Computers? Silly Animators!"
December 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Filmmakers, Independent animators
This is the title of an interesting story in yesterday’s New York Times about independent, adult-oriented animation, which notes that, Serious animation is not unknown in the United States, although the market situation might be comparable to that of California wine, pre-1976. “Waltz With Bashir,” the coming Sony Pictures Classics animated release about the Israeli [...]
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The Madness of Being
June 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Independent animators, Short films
The Madness of Being, a striking short film Hal Miles made last year, recently finished doing the festival circuit. Its about a character (a stop motion armature) trapped in a situation right out of Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit; Miles describes the story as being about a “character … confined in an extremely small and isolated [...]
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Joanna Priestley
May 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Filmmakers, Independent animators
The following was originally written in December 2004 for Skwigly Animation Magazine, a British online journal that subsequently went out of business; though parts of the magazine’s site can still be seen on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, this article cannot It was written on the occasion of the release of Priestly first DVDs: Relative [...]
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Streetcar Named Perspire
December 20th, 2007 · No Comments · Independent animators
Independent animator Joanna Priestley just sent me her most recent film, Streetcar Named Perspire, a whimsical “instructional” film about the roller-coaster ride that is menopause. Ever since her autobiographical Voices (1984), her CalArts thesis film which became her signature piece, every 10 years or so Priestley has attempted to keep viewers up-to-date on what’s going [...]
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