Animation Night
Date: May 16th, 2009, 7 p.m.
Location: Top Kino [Info]
Tickets: 8 EUR (1 ticket for the Animation Night)
BIG AUDITORIUM
- 7 p.m. – CalArts: MoMA Retrospective
- 8 p.m. – Sharks and Bees: Propaganda and subversion in animated films during World War II
- 9 p.m. – International Competition 2
- 10 p.m. – CalArts: Animation Students 2008
- 11 p.m. – Films by Joanna Polak
SMALL AUDITORIUM
- 7 p.m. – Films by Joanna Polak
- 8 p.m. – CalArts: Animation Students 2008
- 9 p.m. – International Competition 2
- 10 p.m. – Sharks and Bees: Propaganda and subversion in animated films during World War II
- 11 p.m. – CalArts: MoMA Retrospective
The International Competition 2: Eight animations from six countries, ranging from classic cartoons over stop-motion to 3D animated figures and forms. Short personal stories are told, while milestones of world history are renegotiated. Quiet hints, loud outcries!
As well as propaganda movies, selected films and film excerpts also give an example of the “civilian” film production of the time, which is so obviously meant as harmless children’s entertainment that the term escapism certainly seems justified: Sharks and Bees.
Within the framework of the scholarship-programme “Artist-in-Residence”, funded by the MuseumsQuartier Vienna and quartier21, Polish filmmaker and artist Joanna Polak is a guest at the VIS Independent Shorts in May and June. Selected films by Joanna Polak are presented within the context of Animation Night.
This year in the VIS series “Animation Schools of the World”, supervised since four years by Thomas Renoldner, the Animation Department of the California Institute of the Arts will be represented with two top notch programmes: CalArts – Animation Students 2008 und CalArts – MoMA Retrospective.