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SUMMARY:Anijammin’ [2023]
DESCRIPTION:Please not this session is rated: Unrestricted M (Mature) – Restricted to persons aged 15 and over unless accompanied by an adult.\nTickets\n(sold out) VERY LIMTED late release tickets available!\nGuest Co-Curator: Marv Newland\nGotta love a great ANIJAM! A bunch of disparate animators come together and individually animate their own section of a film usually without knowing what any of the animators have done. Each animator passes on only the last frame of their shot – the next animator has to take that frame, craft their own sequence in their own style before passing on their last frame… and down the line it goes. Sometimes there’s a theme, sometimes not. All the pieces get stitched together and the results are encyclopaedic compendiums of style, energy and ideas from a who’s-who roll-call of international indie animating talent. This is animators coming out to play.\nThe leader of the Anijammin’ pack has got to be master Canadian animator, Marv Newland. Marv is one of our favourite human units and is the genius behind the ultra classic “Bambi Meets Godzilla” (1969) and an incredible catalogue of animated shorts spanning four decades. He’s even seen a bit of “Duckman” action and animated a series of Gary Larson cartoons. Buuuut back in 1984, he gathered together a constellation of nearly two dozen of the world’s most renowned indie animators and got each of them separately animating the adventures of a bizarre, trippy character named Foska. The resulting film “Anijam” (1984) cracked open the whole anijam genre whistles, bells, fireworks and all.\nMIAF Creative Director, Malcolm Turner, sat down with Marv and spent a couple of months going through a pile of films that picked up that anijam baton and ran with it. Working with Marv is always a delight and the collection of anijam films he lead us through on our way to this final selection is a joy to behold; brilliant clusters of work from a bewilderingly diverse range of animators and the absolutely perfect, anarchically fun way to kick off MIAF’s International Animation Day line-up.\n \nKee Koo’s Initiation – VFS\nKee Koo’s Initiation\nVFS\nCanada, 4’45, 2023\nThe perfect Anijammin’ opener – the Vancouver Film School Grad Class of ’22 take Marv Newland’s classic character Kee Koo back to anijam boot camp.\nYour Face Global Jam – Ken Mora, Bill Plympton\nYour Face Global Jam\nKen Mora, Bill Plympton\nUSA, 3’30, 2017\nA ‘mega-jam’ made up of 50+ sequences seamlessly sewn together to create a 30th anniversary tribute to one of the most renowned films by the US indie king of animation.\nMosaic – UMBC Animation, Corrie Francis Parks\nMosaic\nUMBC Animation – Corrie Francis Parks\nUSA, 4’00, 2023\nDon’t let yourself be boxed in. A digital/physical music video created by 16 animators from UMBC.\nLe Cadavre Exquis – Image Par Image Festival\nLe Cadavre Exquis\nImage Par Image Festival\nFrance, 5’00, 2015\nA Who’s Who of French animators revisit one of the great anijams of all time.\nYellow Sticky Notes | Canadian Anijam – Jeff Chiba Stearns\nYellow Sticky Notes | Canadian Anijam\nJeff Chiba Stearns\nCanada, 7’53, 2013\n15 of Canada’s most acclaimed indie animators reflect on one day of their lives using only yellow Post-It Notes, black pens, and their colourful wits.\nThe Opening – Zorobabel\nThe Opening\nZorobabel\nBelgium, 6’05, 2015\n16 animators descend on Belgium studio Zorobabel to turn a disparate collection of film openings into something approaching a narrative.\nWhen I Was Done Dying – Dave Hughes\nWhen I Was Done Dying\nDave Hughes\nUSA, 4’20, 2015\nNine animators create an extreme set of ‘space-shifting’ sequences in the process of generating this music video.\nSwap Meet – Caleb Wood\nSwap Meet\nCaleb Wood\nUSA, 7’09, 2015\nAn anijam with a twist – 14 animators create a series of individual sequences inspired entirely by the background artwork of 14 different artists.\nAnijam – Marv Newland\nAnijam\nMarv Newland\nCanada, 9’52, 1984\nThe ultimate anijam marshalled by the maestro of the form – 22 animators were handed the character of Foska to do with as they pleased. A film that can’t be unseen.\nTickets\n(sold out) VERY LIMTED late release tickets available!\n
URL:https://miaf.net/events/anijammin_2023/
CATEGORIES:Focus,International
LOCATION:165 Bank St, South Melbourne VIC 3205
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