Joanna Priestley
* 1950 in Oregon.
Joanna Priestley received numerous scholarships, teaches Animation across the world and is a founder member of ASIFA Northwest. Priestly has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1992. Numerous retrospectives have been dedicated to her, e.g. at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Internationales Trickfilm Festival Stuttgart. Joanna Priestley lives in Portland, Oregon.
Personal website: http://www.primopix.com/
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1142452/
FILMS directed by JOANNA PRIESTLEY
Missed Aches
USA 2009, 4 min, BetaSP
Director/Cinematographer/Editing/Producer: Joanna Priestley | Screenwriter: Taylor Mali | Sound Design: Normand Roger, Pierre Yves Drapeau | Original Music: Pierre Yves Drapeu, Denis Chartrand, Norman Roger | Animation: Joanna Priestley, Brian Kinkley, Don Flores
A royal flash-poem about proof reading: Missed Aches should actually be “Mistakes” and the title already gives us a subtle hint of the rich fireworks of words and pictorial jokes, which Joanna Priestley sparks off for us in her witty and eclectic work – not least by the excessive use of graphical ambiguity.
Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2010, Animation Avantgarde 1
Awards:
Black Maria Film Festival USA (First Prize Jury Award)
OTHER FILMS:
Streetcar Named Perspire (2007)
Dew Line (2005)
Andaluz (2004; together with Karen Aqua)
Kali Yuga (2000)
Surface Dive (2000)
Utopia Parkway (1997)
Hand Held (1995)
Grown Up (1993)
Pro and Con (1993; together with Joan C. Gratz)
After the Fall (1991)
All My Relations (1990)
She-Bop (1988)
Candyjam (1988)
Times Square (1986)
Voices (1985)
The Dancing Bulrushes (1985)