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 The closing ceremony of PAF 2009 took place on Sunday evening in the Theatre (Art Centre, Palacký University, Konvikt) during which event the winners of this year’s OTHER VISIONS competition were announced.
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 On Saturday at 5 p.m., the visitors of the Film Auditorium had the opportunity to watch a series of videos of this year’s PAF Cult, the Croatian renaissance artist and pedagogue, Ivan Ladislav Galeta.
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 A lecture of the Austrian theoretician Franziska Bruckner, focusing on animated film, will take place at 2 p.m. at the Film Auditorium. She will introduce the visitors the methods and approaches of the avantgarde towards animation.
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 During the whole Festival of Film Animation the visitors will have the opportunity to see an interactive installation SWING(1) of the audiovisual artist Martin Blažíček at the Centre of Arts of the Palacký University at Konvikt.
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Complete your accreditation by 30th November and get a festival catalogue for free. You can do so solely through internet by filling in the form you find in the Accreditation section. Online accreditation shall end up on 6 December 2009 at 12:00. After that you will be able to get the accreditation only at the spot (Art Center of the Palacký University, Konvikt) – since Thursday, December 10, from 15:00. |
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 We know the finalists of the third year of the competition for films and videos on the border of animation and videoart. They are experienced authors as well as new and promising creators of the Czech art scene.
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 The artist Michal Pěchouček presented twice his selection of contemporary Czech video during the past years of the festival. This time he comes back within the Aport Animation section to christen his DVD Pater Noster Video Stories. It is a video-monography, symbolizing in a certain way the closure of several phases of video production of this artist.
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 Record twenty films have been nominated for the Oscar for the best Animated Feature Film this year. You will have the opportunity to see five of them at this year’s PAF. It is Mary and Max (Australia), A Town Called Panic (Belgium, France, Luxembourg), Up (USA), 9 (USA), and The Secret of Kells (Ireland, France, Belgium).
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 Mia Makela aka SOLU is another confirmed guest of our festival. She is a Finnish pedagogue, curator, and artist specialized in media and so-called Live Cinema (simultaneous creation of sound and image in real time), whose work has been characterized as „dark visual delirium“ and „digital version of William Blake’s poetry“.
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 Ivan Ladislav Galeta, the Croatian filmmaker, performer, experimentalist, and pedagogue, will be one of the main guests of this year’s Festival of Film Animation. Although his name is quite unknown in our country, he is a crucial figure in the history of animation and generally the film art, which is evidenced by his work being displayed in prestigious cultural institutions, e.g. in the Centre Pompidou in Paris, where he has five films.
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 The judges, Ivan Ladislav Galeta, Mia Makela and Martin Arnold, chose their favourite ones from the ten audiovisual works that the visitors had the opportunity to see during the whole Festival of Film Animation at the Attic Gallery of the Art Centre, Palacký University, Konvikt.
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 The eight year of the Festival of Film Animation in Olomouc has been underway since yesterday. The visitors were welcomed by programme managers of individual sections as well as by the director of the festival Alexandr Jančík at the opening ceremony at the Atrium (Art Center of the Palacký University, Konvikt).
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The following links enable you to watch and listen to interviews with the PAF organizers.
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 2 December was the unofficial beginning of the 8th year of the Festival of Film Animation Olomouc 2009. Since then the exhibition hall of the Gallery U Mloka has been hosting a vernissage called Two Cups of Tea, which presents the production of comics of the Prague artist and scenographer TOY_BOX.
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 While so-called mocap (motion capture) is a useful assistant within the sphere of computer games, military or science, it still arouses inconsistent reactions within the context of animated film, and many theoreticians (including audience) still cannot accept this technology. Is it really such a controversal matter?
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 The attempt to describe and notionally separate visual context of club scene is the ambition of this year’s “accompanying programme” within the framework of Live Animation section. You will have the opportunity to attend several concerts: 1A2V1, Pjoni & Ink Midget + tvprodukt, Kazety, and Like She. Historically first experimental VJ forum will take place at the very noon of the festival’s Sunday.
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 Last year PAF hosted the presentation of an international project with the working title Brendan and the Secret of Kells that had originated under production and artistic supervision of a small, independent Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon.
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You can get your accreditation solely through internet by filling in the form you find in the Accreditation section.
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 Simon Bogojević Narath, the art director of the progressive Bonobo studio from Zagreb that is engaged in production and distribution of animated and experimental films, will be one of the representatives of contemporary Croatian animation. The studio was founded in 2008 after the end of the Kenges studio that had successfully functioned in this field for almost ten years.
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PAF will present its program for the first time in Paris from 14th – 15th March 2010. Two days of screenings and live audiovisual performances will take place in Saint Merry Church and Le centre tchèque de Paris.
The Prague Centre for Contemporary Art DOX hosted the presentation of the Festival of Film Animation and the Other Visions competition.