Garage Screen. Big Festival of Animation: Animation about Animation Program

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Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

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Partnering with Russia’s Big Cartoon Festival for the first time, Garage is hosting a special program Animation about Animation exploring the relationship between creators and the images they bring to life.

The Big Brother and Animaholic selections screened as part of the program are primarily for adults, but can be watched by children over 8 and 12 years old respectively.

During the Festival, Garage will also host several animation workshops.

The first animation films exploring the nature and various aspects of animation date back to the very beginning of the genre. These works have not been limited to depictions of the artist’s creative search, but often tell dramatic stories about the relationships between creators and their creations that come to life: the love and conflicts between them; relations of power; the character’s rebellion and coming to terms with his or her dependence; the creators’ realisation of their inability to completely control their creation… Due to its versatility, animation allows the selection of the best and clearest images reflecting on these topics and other issues.  

 

Dina Goder is the festival curator.

ABOUT THE BIG CARTOON FESTIVAL

Taking place at several Moscow venues, the twelve-year old annual festival shows animated feature films and shorts, runs workshops for children and adults, and organizes meetings for experts and professionals. The festival’s program contains several selections of the newest Russian and international animation including the winners of other festivals, as well as retrospectives and programs of animation classics.

TICKETS

Standard ticket 350 rubles

 Garage Members: 175 RUB

All movies will be screened in the original language with Russian subtitles

All movies are accessible for people with hearing impairments  

Schedule

The Big Brother, 8+

The selection focuses on the struggle between the artist and their disobedient creation. Drawn, moulded, and computer-generated animation characters come to life and escape their creator’s control.  

 

Sleight of Hand

The story of an artist and his creation reflects on our understanding of fate and free will. Are we always free to make our own choices?

Director and animator Michael Cusack
Australia, 2012. Stop motion. 9 min. 48 sec. 

The Big Brother

Two drawn figures live a life of their own, bullying a third character that is not yet complete. But their victim will have his opportunity to take revenge.

Directors Jesus Perez, Elisabeth Hüttermann
Switzerland, Germany, 2011. Mixed media. 6 min.

Fuga Animada

An animated character tries to escape from his creator. Leaving the sheet of paper on which he was drawn, he ventures on a journey through all kinds of animated obstacles.

Director and animator Augusto Bicalho Roque
Brazil, 2013. Mixed media. 3 min. 40 sec.

Manipulation

This short tells the story of the struggle between the artist and the character who does not want to get erased. The idea of the film came to Daniel Greaves as he was filming sketches and noticed the shadow of his hand on the sheet interacting with the character.

Director and animator Daniel Greaves
UK, 1991. Mixed media. 6 min. 30 sec.

Animator vs. Animation IV

Fighting against his creator, the drawn character hacks his Facebook profile and iPhone to destroy interfaces through animation.

Director and animator Alan Becker
USA, 2014. Mixed media. 13 min. 37 sec.

When Time Moves Faster 

Anna Vasof shares her delight in animation, creating illusions enabled solely through the medium of cinema. In four vivid separate fragments, everyday objects are converted into incredible mechanical constructions.

Director and animator Anna Vasof
Australia, Canada, 2016. Mixed media. 6 min. 32 sec.

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Date
Sunday, October 21
Time
12:30–13:20
Place
Garage Auditorium

Animaholic, 12+

This selection explores the often-painful creative process, the attachment of animation artists to their art and the characters becoming aware of their dependence on somebody else's will. 

Animator's Notes

Sometimes, animation goes really wrong and characters escape from their animator and start living a life of their own.

Director and animator Sergey Aynutdinov
Russia, 2001. Drawn. 9 min.

Inanimate

Katrine had a normal life, a job, and a partner she loved until one day she realised everything was not what it seemed to be.

Director: Lucia Bulgheroni
UK, 2018. Stop motion. 8 min. 36 sec.

The Making of Longbird

A film exploring the difficulties of the creative process which follows the relationship between the animator and a character allegedly created by a Russian pioneer of animation.

Director and animator Will Anderson
UK, 2011. Mixed media. 15 min. 19 sec.

Voices

Using devices available exclusively to animators, Joanna Priestley explores common fears of darkness, getting old, and dying.

Director and animator Joanna Priestley
USA, 1985. Drawn. 4 min. 5 sec.

Dolls Don't Cry

A man and a woman are working on an animation. He films it at night, while she makes and fixes puppets during the day. But nothing is as straightforward as it seems. 

Director and animator Frederick Tremblay
Canada, 2017. Puppet animation. 20 min. 5 sec.

Animaholic 

To Adrian Piqueras Sánchez, his own passion for animation is akin to addiction. "I believe it all started when I was 11. My name is Adrian and I am an animaholic."

Director and animator Adrian Piqueras Sánchez
Spain, 2016. Stop motion. 2 min. 55 sec.

Impromptu

Inspired by Chopin’s five piano etudes and paying tribute to the forgotten pioneers of film, Impromptu is also a homage to the Fin-du-siècle, its muses, and its fascination with movement: travel, journeys and, expeditions.

Director and animator María Lorenzo Hernández
Spain, 2017. Drawn. 11 min. 9 sec.

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Date
Sunday, October 21
Time
16:00–17:20
Place
Garage Auditorium

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