FILM FESTIVAL | ANIMATED SPIRITS: NEW ANIMATION FROM EUROPE
Join us for the first edition of the European Animated Short Film Festival at the ACFNY and the School of Visual Arts.
The inaugural edition of Animated Spirits brings some of the most exciting, recent animation from Europe across the Atlantic to New York. Artists from 12 European Union countries ‘illustrate’ the spirit of experimentation at the ACFNY and at the School of Visual Arts on April 8 and 9, 2015. Two gurus of contemporary animation—Tom Brown, UK and Amid Amidi, US—discuss the transatlantic state of the art form following the screenings each night. Emphasizing the new, the exciting, and the unconventional, but finding the space to reflect on the continuing potential of the traditional techniques as well, Animated Spirits is the first chance for NYC audiences and moving image professionals to encounter, in carefully curated programs, the cream of the crop of European animation.
PROGRAM:
HIT THE ROAD – ANIMATED SPIRITS! (100’)
The selection “Hit the Road!” focuses on the subject of (not) being and (not) feeling at home, featuring again a wide range of characters.
FILMS
Mythopolis (CZE) – Alexandra Hetmerova, 2014
Black Seed (EST, ITA) – Francesco Rosso, 2014
Age of Curious (HUN, UK) – Luca Tóth, 2013
Bears on the Road (NLD) – Nadia Meezen, 2014
Roadtrip (GER) – Xaver Xilophon, 2014
DISCUSSION
Discussion and Q&A with Amid Amidi animation journalist and film historian.
Shugo Tokumaru / Katachi (POL) – Kijek / Adamski, 2013
On the Other Side of the Woods (EST) – Anu-Laura Tuttelberg, 2014
The Incredibly Elastic Man (POL) – Karolina Specht, 2013
Spell Breaker (NLD) – Janis Joy Epping & Diana van Houten, 2012
Vol au vent (BEL) – Isabel Bouttens, 2013
Ham Story (CZE) – Eliška Chytková, 2012
Natasha (BEL) – Roman Klochkov, 2012
Participating Cultural Institutes:
Austrian Cultural Forum NY
Hungarian Cultural Center
Czech Center NY
Polish Cultural Institute
Flanders House
421 Foundation (Slovakia)
Estonian Ministry of Culture
Arte Institute, Portugal
Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
A European National Institutes of Culture (EUNIC) – New York City Cluster event.
VENUE
School of Visual Arts | Beatrice Theater
333 West 23 Street, New York NY 10011