New York Animation Festival 2001

September 14 - 20, 2001
Cinema Village
22 East 12th Street (between University and 5th Avenue)
Closing night program at Ocularis at Galapagos Art & Performance Space

Overview

The 2001 New York Animation Festival took place in Lower Manhattan in the wake of the events of 9/11/01. Despite the tragedy, and that the neighborhood surrounding the main screening venue was closed to the public until the opening day of the Festival, most screenings and events took place as planned (some presentations and panels discussions were cancelled).

The 2001 Festival presented 100 animated films and videos from more than a 15 countries - including a program of New York City's own, cutting edge works by up-and-coming young directors, cult favorites, Oscar nominees, and many international award winners. A Best of the Festival program was presented the last four days of the Festival. A special program of animation from Quebec presented in collaboration with the Cinematheque Quebecois (Montreal) and Quebec-New York 2001 (a month long festival of Quebecois arts and culture taking place in New York). Experimental animation was presented as part of a special closing night program at Ocularis in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Several filmmakers were present at the Festival and participated in post-screening discussions and question and answer sessions. Among those present were Emily Hubley (Pigeon Within), Jesse Schmal (SUB!), Candy Kugel and Vincent Cafarelli (It Was Nothing At All), Bill Plympton (Eat), Zach Schappli (Pasta for War), Hyunsuk Kim (Ephemeral Epiphany), Signe Baumane and Josh Rechnitz (Natasha), Biljana Labovic (Eye Spy), Karl Staven (Lafftrak), Sergei Aniskov (CCCP vs. St. Valentina), Lisa Barnstone (Sugar), Masako Miyazaki (Train) and Sandra Gibson (Soundings).

The 2001 Festival was featured in articles in the Village Voice, New York Times, New York Magazine and Newsday, and on WBAI and Bloomberg Radio.

Co-Presenters

School of Visual Arts
Women in Animation
Ocularis
Cinematheque Quebecoise

Sponsors & Supporters

The 2001 New York Animation Festival was sponsored by Toon Boom Technologies, alt.SHO.com Alternative Media Festival, Level 13.net, Sunbow Entertainment, LoopFilmWorks, Oxygen Media, Quebec - New York 2001, and Connecting Point Multi-Media, and made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, and Presentation Funds, a program of the Experimental Television Center supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, and by the New York Foundation for the Arts. Media Sponsors included The Village Voice, Artbyte: The Magazine of Digital Culture, and Silicon Alley Station.

Staff & Personnel

Festival Director/Programmer: Matt Isaac
Panel Organizer: Mary Jo Fahey
Festival Coordinator: Sevdalina Stamatova
Graphic Design: Joan Reilly
Web Design: LoopFilmWorks; Jenna Spevack
Promotion/Media Contact: Phil Hall, Open City Communications
Selection Jury: Nicole Emmons, Matt Isaac, Melissa Johnson, Masako Kanayama, Bradley Rodriguez, Karyn Riegel
Judges: Delphine Burrus, Peter Hossli, Reeves Lehman

Awards

Best of Festival: The Man with the Beautiful Eyes (Jonathan Hodgson)
Sunbow Entertainment Award for Best International Animation: The Man with the Beautiful Eyes (Jonathan Hodgson)
Best U.S. Animation: Pigeon Within (Emily Hubley)
Best New York City Animation: Eye Spy (Biljana Labovic)
Best Student Animation: Replay (Isabelle Favez)
Best Use of Computer/Digital Animation: Ephemeral Epiphany (Hyunsuk Kim)
Women in Animation Award: It Was...Nothing At All (Candy Kugel & Vincent Cafarelli)
Citation for Humor: Catch Of The Day (John R. Dilworth)
Citation for Animation Technique: Bike Ride (Tom Schroeder)

Programs

Flickers and Flashes: International Animation Matinee for All Ages
Saturday, September 15, 2pm and Sunday, September 16, 2pm
A diverse selection of world animation, representing a wide range of styles and techniques and suitable for younger audience members.

Control (Matt Rochester, 2000, Scotland, 9min)
Complacency (Neil Jack, 2000, Scotland, 4min)
apple monkey (Ed Roberts, 2000, England, 4 min)
The Crossing Guard (Joshua West, 2000, 1min)
Stubble Trouble (Joe Merideth, 2000, 4min)
Graveyard Jamboree (Mark Caballero and Seamus Walsh, 1999, 4min)
That Special Monkey (Sean McBride, 2000, 5min)
The Garden of Ecos (Co Hoedeman, 1997, Canada, 11min)
The Old Man and the Sea (Alexander Petrov, 1999, Canada, 22min)

New York's Finest: Animation from New York City (and thereabouts)
Friday, September 14, 2 pm, 4 pm, 7pm, 9pm
From stunning first works by up-and-coming filmmakers to the latest by New York's most celebrated animators, a program showcasing the best from the Big Apple (and the region).

Cartoons and You (Mark Newgarden, 2000, 3min)
Catch of the Day (John R. Dilworth, 2000, 9min)
Pasta For War (Zach Schappli, 2000, 4min)
The Potter (Lena Dolata, 2000, 3min)
X Presidents: Clinton (Dave Lipson and Don McGrath, 2000, 3min)
Closet Cases: Slice of Bread (James Dean Conklin, 2001, 4min)
Ephemeral Epiphany (Hyunsuk Kim, 2001, 5min)
Eye Spy (Biljana Labovic, 2001, 4min)
La presa / The Prey (Rodrigo Gomez, 2001, 3min)
Figure 1" scar (Randall Wakerlin, 2000, 7min)
It was...nothing at all (Candy Kugel & Vincent Cafarelli, 2000, 6min)
Pigeon Within (Emily Hubley, 2000, 4min)
Eat (Bill Plympton, 2001, 9min)
Natasha (Signe Baumane and Josh Rechnitz, 2001, 10min)

American Beauties: Animation from the USA
Saturday, September 15, 4 pm, 7pm, 9pm
From pursued and lost loves and missions gone awry to collisions between commerce and art, this remarkable survey of animation from throughout the USA includes puppet, drawn, clay and computer animation.

SUB! (Jesse Schmal, 2000, 9min)
Stubble Trouble (Joe Merideth, 2000, 4min)
Rejected (Don Hertzfeldt, 2000, 10min)
Thought Bubble (Billy Greene, 2001, 4min)
The Indescribable Nth (Oscar Moore, 1999, 9min)
For The Birds (Ralph Eggleston, 2000, 4min)
Graveyard Jamboree (Mark Caballero and Seamus Walsh, 1999, 4min)
Thought-City (Stefan Gruber, 2000, 2min)
Bike Ride (Tom Schroeder, 2000, 7min)
Tongues and Taxis (Michael Overbeck, 2000, 7min)
Fat Girl: My Seder with Mad (Prudence Fenton, 2001, 9min)
Bitanic (Corky Quakenbush, 2001, 4min)

World Wide Animation: International Animation Program
Sunday, September 16, 4 pm, 7pm
A non-stop global animated express that includes elaborately drawn and rendered tall tales and short takes from England, Estonia, Switzerland, and Hungary (among others), featuring several films that have won awards at international festivals.

Brother (Adam Elliot, 1999, Australia, 8min)
From The Big Bang To Tuesday Morning (Claude Cloutier, 2000, Canada, 6min)
Fast Spin Fling (Sandra Ensby, 1999, England, 5min)
Greenman of Knowledge (Rachel Beva Baker, 2000, England, 13min)
The Mosquito and the Horse (Mikk Rand, 2001, Estonia, 12min)
Replay (Isabelle Favez, 1999, Switzerland, 4min)
The Man with the Beautiful Eyes (Jonathan Hodgson, 1999, England, 6min)
A Night In the Gilman (David Nytra, 2000, Canada, 4min)
Robots (John Williams, 2000, England, 7min)
Sharpshooter / El Asesino (Marton Hegedus, 2001, Hungary, 4min)

The Late Show: Underground Animation
Friday, September 14, 10:45pm and Saturday, September 15, 10:45pm
A late night program featuring the dark, disturbing and downright bizarre...definitely not for the timid.

Limboscape (Tim Finn, 2000, 5min)
Lint People (Helder King Sun, 2000, 8min)
Monkey vs. Robot (Megan Weber, 2000, 2min)
Second Nature (Skip Battaglia, 2000, 5min)
Food (Jack Myers, 2000, 12min)
Run Monkey Run (Leo Nicholson, 2000, Scotland, 7min)
Lafftrak (Karl Staven, 2000, 3min)
CCCP vs. St. Valentina (Sergei Aniskov, 2001, 6min)
Spider Virus (John Moynihan, 2000, 2min)
Willis and Jonah (Brian Palermo and Doug Langdale, 2000, 3min)
The Moschops (Jim Trainor, 2000, 13min)

Quebec, image par image: Recent Animation from Quebec
Sunday, September 16, 9pm
The Cinematheque Quebecoise (Montreal) presents a snapshot of Quebec animation, curated by Marco de Blois. Quebec, image par image brings together 11 films, capturing the diversity of Quebec animators in their approach and creativity. Several have won prizes at prestigious international festivals, including the Academy Award nominee When The Day Breaks. Presented as part of Quebec-New York 2001.

She Had the Sunny Head (Jeep, 1999, 5min)
L'Oeil (Nicolas Brault, 1999, 5min)
Les Cocos (Luc Otter & Dominique Boisvert, 2000, 2min)
ShᦠMat (Mike Pelland, 1999, 9min)
Ditty Dot Comma (Steven Woloshen, 2000, 3min)
Oh Lord (Anouk Prefontaine, 1999, 5min)
Ame noire / Black Soul (Martine Chartrand, 2000, 10min)
Le Chapeau / The Hat (Michele Cournoyer, 1999, 6min)
La Solitude de M. Turgeon / Lonesome Monsieur Turgeon (Jeanne Crepeau, 2000, 14min)
The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg / Le garcon qui a vu l'iceberg (Paul Driessen, 2000, 9min)
When the Day Breaks (Amanda Forbis & Wendy Tilby, 1999, 10min)

Best of the New York Animation Festival
Monday - Thursday, September 17-20, 2pm, 4pm, 7pm, 9pm
A highlights program featuring highlights from various Festival programs.

The Man with the Beautiful Eyes (Jonathan Hodgson, 1999, England, 6min)
Brother (Adam Elliot, 1999, Australia, 8min)
From The Big Bang To Tuesday Morning (Claude Cloutier, 2000, Canada, 6min)
Rejected (Don Hertzfeldt, 2000, 10min)
Pigeon Within (Emily Hubley, 2000, 4min)
Eat (Bill Plympton, 2001, 9min)
Natasha (Signe Baumane and Josh Rechnitz, 2001, 10min)
When the Day Breaks (Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby, 1999, 10min)
SUB! (Jesse Schmal, 2000, 9min)
Stubble Trouble (Joe Merideth, 2000, 4min)

Beyond City Limits: Experimental Animation
Thursday, September 20, 8:30pm
Ocularis at Galapagos Art & Performance Space
Deploying a host of techniques ranging from stop-motion to hand processing to digital manipulations, artists examine the finer shades of noir, the poetics of narrative fragmentation, and the dizzying pace of urban life, this program of works that push beyond the traditional limits of animation. A closing night reception followed replete with sonic experimentation and the kaleidoscopic animation of multiple projections by kinoSonik, an Ocularis offshoot.

Soundings (Sandra Gibson, 2001, 5 min)
Train (Masako Miyazaki, 1999, 8min)
Sugar (Lisa Barnstone, 2001, 7min)
Spiral Vessel (Janie Geiser, 2000, 5min)
Mistaken Identity (Maureen Selwood, 2001, 28min)