ASIFA-Atlanta will be hosting a special screening of Adam Elliot’s stop-motion feature Mary and Max at the Plaza Theatre, Wednesday Monday, November 16th, at 8:00pm. This is the much-anticipated followup to Elliot’s Oscar-winning short, Harvie Krumpet and has not yet been given a theatrical booking in the Atlanta area. The film was made available through [...]
Entries Tagged as 'ASIFA-Atlanta'
Mary and Max in Atlanta
November 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Screenings, Stop motion animation
Tags: Adam Elliot·ASIFA-Atlanta·Mary and Max·Plaza Theatre (Atlanta)
International Animation Day 2009 in Atlanta
October 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Screenings
On October 28, 1892, Émile Reynaud opened his Théâtre Optique at the Musée Grévin in Paris, using a version of his Projection Praxinoscope; in addition, to being the first theatrical presentation of a motion picture (though it did not use film), it also represented the public presentation of the first animated movies. Though cinema historians [...]
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