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| The 10th Animac expands and includes extra parallel activities |
- The International Animated Film Showcase of Catalunya presents a retrospective selection about Surrealism and another about Mexican Animation.
- Ron Diamond, founder of the Acme Filmworks studio in Hollywood, will explain, in a special session, the relationship that exists between independent animation, commercial production and advertising.
Once more, ANIMAC offers a new opportunity to enjoy the thousand and one faces making up the international arena of animated cinema. The tenth ANIMAC, organized by the Lleida City Council and the ICIC (The Catalan Institute of Cultural Industries) part of the Generalitat of Catalunya, will take place from the 2nd to the 5th of March 2006.
ANIMAC is a non competitive showcase created to exhibit the best animated film productions ever, with special attention paid to those productions that have most served to enrich and strengthen the expressive ability of animated film. It is also a fundamental meeting point for professionals in this area.
Surrealism
This tenth edition of ANIMAC seems like a good time to reflect on the main reason artists find themselves attracted to this discipline, which is none other than the creative freedom that animation provides, through its capacity to make dreams come alive through play. Play that allows for the possibility to discover, one’s own inner thoughts through images, recovering in doing so, the surrealist spirit from the past and from the present.
That’s why this year, ANIMAC presents a series of programmes and will use them to try to reconstruct both the universe and the time when this artistic phenomenon first appeared as well as the reasons why it has lasted up until the present time. ANIMAC presents sections that span:
- literary interpretations of surrealist authors.
- Avantgarde film productions made in the periods between wars.
- a panorama of classic cartoons
- the present through the eyes of Czech animator Jan Svankmajer and his followers.
Mexico
A selection of animation pieces on the meaning of death in Mexico. Different visions of what Octavio Paz called “invisible realities”, that show the fusion of two forms of culture living together, Christian and Aztec. In this section, several Mexican animators show us their vision of the fascination that Mexican culture has with death.
Ron Diamond:
Animation author in the advertising industry.
Ron Diamond has been the impetus behind important initiatives for the integration of artistic animation into the growing animation market all over the world. After working as a producer for Max Media and MTV, he created his own production company, Acme, in 1990. Located in Hollywood, Acme Filmworks was created with the intention of melding two worlds that are traditionally separate, the art of animation and advertising, inviting talented, award winning, animation artists to make films for the advertising market. Today, Acme has over 40 internationally renown animators in its group, amongst them, Michael Dukok de Wit, Paul Driessen and Bill Plympton, who create small works of art in a commercial format for some of the biggest companies in the world, like United Airlines or Microsoft.
In addition, ANIMAC will have its usual sections:
L´ULL MŔGIC (THE MAGIC EYE): Open your eyes to a fantastic and surprising world. The youngest will come alive through the unique experience of discovering the universe of animation.
UN MÓN D´ANIMACIÓ (A WORLD OF ANIMATION): An excursion into the world of animation. From one side of the planet to the other, from one technique to another. A fascinating and once in a lifetime trip.
COM PINTAR EL TEMPS? (HOW O PAINT TIME?): Do you know how to portray time? A group of animators show us how to represent the most incredible things in the most amazing ways.
BROU ANIMAC (ANIMAC BROTH): The best broth is made in the Animac pots. A broth made of the best seasonal products.
TALENT LOCAL (LOCAL TALENT): Looking for talent South of the Pyrenees, Animac presents the works of some of the most brilliant Spanish animators.
Parallel activities
The exclusive purpose of Animation is not specifically to be seen on a theatre screen, but to be a medium that is also integrated into other artistic disciplines. In this way, ANIMAC includes a series of parallel activities aimed at satisfying all tastes:
EXHIBITION in the Mercat del Pla about the next short film project by German artist Raimund Krumme, an adaptation of Samuel Becket’s short story El despoblador.
WORKSHOPS:
- Cut-Out workshop, in the IES (Secondary Education Institute) Marius Torres from the 21st to the 24th of February.
- Animation Workshop, in the EMBA (Municipal School of Fine Arts) from the 27th of February to the 2nd of March.
FUNŔTIC SCREENINGS
A programme especially dedicated to children and families where Cartoon Network will offer three different sessions that will be screened on Saturday the 4th and Sunday the fifth at 16.00 and 18.00.
ANIMAC ARQUITECTS:
Right next to the Teatro Principal, there will be a showcase of three different activities:
§ Animac Menu: self service of all the films presented at Animac 2006 (a total of 361)
§ School presentation: a space in which the visitors to Animac will be able to discover different animation education centres, screen their students’ work and contact the schools themselves.
§ Open Pixelation Lab. Raimo Benedetti, the Brazilian director is in charge of this section in collaboration with the Arteleku centre in San Sebastian.
Lleida’s nights will also be animated by music and performances:
Friday, the 3rd of March at 00.00 hours at the Café theatre (www.cafedelteatre.com)
Modulaciones (Modulations) visual-experimental convert by Basque musician Xabi Erkizia and Brazilian director Raimo Benedetti.
Friday the 3rd of March at 02:00 (location to be confirmed)
Vídeo-Dj session with Cartoon Network
Saturday the 4th of March at 00:00 at the Café del Theatre.
Video clip session with Loops programme on C33 channel
Saturday the 4th of March at 02:00 (location to be confirmed)
The Pinker Tones concert (www.thepinkertones.com)
We of the press department are available for any additional information or materials that you might need,
Kind regards,
Laura Olaizola – PRESS DEPARTMENT
91 527 91 51
607 97 63 54
laura@olaizola.info
GENERAL INFORMATION
ANIMAC 2006
973 23 41 35
animac@animac.info
www.animac.info
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For further information:
607 976 354
Laura Olaizola |
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Five months trying to draw New York;
Marcel Pie Barba, EUA, Espanya, 2005 |
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The Tell Tale Heart;
Raúl García, Espanya, Regne Unit, 2005 |
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It's a Bird; H.L. Muller, Charley Bowers, EUA 1930 |
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Nyocker! (The District);
Áron Gauder, Hongria 2004 |
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De raiz; Carlos Carrera, Mèxic 2004 |
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Les oreilles n'ont pas de paupières; Etienne Chaillou, França 2005 |
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Gopher Broke;
Jeff Fowler, EUA 2004 |
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United Airlines - Fact Sheet; Wendy Tilby, Amanda Forbis, EUA 2004 |
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