Best Practice: Presentations and Masterclasses
March 4th 2016, 2 pm
METRO Kinokulturhaus, Johannesgasse 4, 1010 Wien
Free admission!
2 - 3 pm Presentation: Women in Animation with Patricia Beckmann Wells (US)
Patricia Beckmann Wells presents the organization Women in Animation:
Women In Animation envisions a world in which women share fully in the creation, production and rewards of animation, resulting in richer and more diverse entertainment and media that move our culture forward. Women In Animation brings together a global community of animation professionals to empower and support women in the art, science and business of animation by increasing access to resources, creating opportunities for education, encouraging strong connections between individuals, and inspiring excellence. In this presentation, we will learn more about the organization. www.womeninanimation.org
3 - 4 pm Masterclass with Joanna Priestley (US)
Exploring Boundaries, Intuition and Whimsy with Joanna Priestley
The exceptional, independent artist known for her personal humorous animations about different stages in women’s lives and most recently for her colorful abstract films will talk about sustaining creativity and her artistic approach.
Joanna Priestley has directed, produced and animated 27 films and one iOS app that explore abstraction, botany, landscape, aging and human rights. She has had retrospectives at MoMA (New York), Center for Contemporary Art (Warsaw, Poland), REDAT (Los Angeles), Stuttgart Animation Festival (Stuttgart, Germany), Jenju International Film Festival (Korea) and the American Cinematheque (Los Angeles) and has received fellowships from Creative Capital, National Endowment for the Arts, American Film Institute, MacDowell Colony, Fundación Valparaíso and Millay Colony. Priestley teaches animation workshops worldwide, was founding president of ASIFA Northwest and has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1992. www.primopix.com/index.shtml
4 - 5 pm Masterclass: Atelier Zorobabel with Delphine Cousin & Delphine Renard (BE)
The master class presents the two main sides of Zorobabel’s work: on the one hand the production work especially with young directors (first or second film), and on the other hand the organization of collective workshops.
Since 1994 Belgian atelier Zorobabel concentrates its work on the production of animated autor's films and the initiation of animated film workshops for children, adolescents, and grown-ups. Zorobabel works with a lot of different publics, to initiate them to the animation's techniques and to make films with them, most of the time, we work with a theme that they've proposed. At Zorobabel's studio, the "Collecive Workshop" is open for adults from 18 years old who want to make a film together, in a professional way, with the director William Henne. The films of the Collective Workshop are destined to be shown in festival as the autor's films.
In parallel, Zorobabel launch the call for projects "START" to people who want to make his first or second film. Zorobabel chooses two authors to accompany every work step in producing their movie and provides its expertise for animation, during two years.
Apart from their presentation of Zorobabel’s work Delphine Cousin and Delphine Renard will host a 3-days workshop on “Music and Experimental Animation” in collaboration with the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Also this year Tricky Women shows two movies (co-)produced by Zorobabel: De longues vacances (Caroline Nugues, BE 2015) and Kijé (Joanna Lorho, BE 2014, co-produced by Zorobabel).
Moderation: Melanie Letschnig, film scholar
5.30 pm Artists‘ Talk
Venue: Bildraum 07, Burggasse 7-9, 1070 Vienna
Meet the artists from the competitions and take the opportunity to ask questions and to speak with them about their work.
Moderation: Franziska Bruckner, film scholar