Grafický design PAF 2009 s dominantním motivem sovy je v současné době možné vidět v Moravské galerii v Brně, kam byl vybrán k účasti na 24. mezinárodním bienále grafického designu Brno 2010 Plakát, firemní, informační a reklamní grafika 22/6—24/10/2010. Jeho autoři Filip Cenek a Magdalena Hrubá se tak ocitli ve společnosti mezinárodně uznávaných tvůrců jako jsou např. Stefan Sagmeister, Philippe Apeloig nebo Erich Brechbühl.

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From 13th to 18th April 2010 Olomouc will be the place of the 45th year of the International Festival of Science Documentary Films Academia Film Olomouc that is organized under the patronage of the Palacký University and the Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies.

PAF program managers have prepared a block of contemporary Czech animation for the OFAFA festival in Poland.

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.

T he Secret of Kells and Up presented at PAF 2009 were among the nominated films for this year’s Oscars.

The 15 December Thuesday of the Good Morning with the Czech Television was dedicated to animated film, the invitation for a discussion was accepted by the programme manager Kateřina Surmanová on behalf of the whole PAF team.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

The following links enable you to watch and listen to interviews with the PAF organizers.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

You can get your accreditation solely through internet by filling in the form you find in the Accreditation section.

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“.

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.

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.

Competition of the Festival of Film Animation
The competition OTHER VISIONS intends to honour and make accessible the work of professionals and amateurs who permeate through both the cinematographic and graphic scene.

Last year’s winner of the “Other Visions 008“ competition, Martin Kohout (Pash*), exhibits in the gallery Entrance in Prague until 18th October 2009. The exhibition’s title is the Directionless Motion.

Písek 25th September, Prague 1st – 3rd October

Projections, Schools of animation, workshops, exhibitons.

PAF’s associated festival AniFest invites all friends of animated films to a costless meeting with the best from this year’s festival.

Contemporary animation, Zlín Exhibition Object of animation. Third sense. The Regional Visual Art Gallery in Zlín, 30th September – 15th November 2009

Concept: F. Cenek, J. Havlíček, M. Mazanec

Authors: F. Cenek & J. Havlíček, M. Kohout, R. Přikryl, P. Sceranková, P. Strouhal, J. Šrámek, V. Takáč, M. Vančát, V. Vaněk, J. Žalio

The opening is on Tuesday, 29th September, at 5 p.m.

Organisator of PAF, the non-government organisation PASTICHE FILMZ, is a patron of film program of several autumn evenings in the open area of La Fabrika in Prague. Petr Vlček, member of the organisation, who cooperates with Polish film institutions and festivals in long term, has formed a representative selection of contemporary Polish animation.

One of the confirmed exclusive guests of this year’s Festival of Film Animation (10th – 13th December) will be the Austrian visual artist and experimental filmmaker Martin Arnold. He has become famous especially for his work with so called found footage and fragments of classical Hollywood genre films, in which he reveals unthought images that are normally hidden, thanks to additional editing. Arnold changes e.g. shots of family idyl into a fighting scene, uncovers erotic subtext or hidden sources of aggression.

PAF successfully presented its new graphic face at the ARS Electronica exhibition in Linz. There is plenty of names from the audiovisual scene that can be count among supporters of the festival’s new visual face by Filip Cenek and Magdalena Hrubá.

Festival of Film Animation publishes for the first time this year‘s program sections!

V neděli na zakončení Přehlídky animovaného filmu proběhlo rovněž vyhlášení výsledků pilotní soutěže Jiné vize 007.

Přehlídku animovaného filmu navštívilo reportážní oko www.aktualne.cz.

More info about this years PAF festival you can read in the final press release (still only Czech).