Love animation? I do! Animix, the International Animation, Comics and Caricature Festival, is celebrating its 13th (Happy Bar Mitzvah!) edition and will take place from August 9 – 13, 2013 at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque, with a huge selection of films and workshops! The great thing about animation is that its boundaries are endless, if you can imagine it (and don’t mind working ad inifinitum), you can make it happen. The festival reflects this creativity in a diverse spectrum of films, from shorts to features, engaging viewers with everything from colorful, crazy, fun to deep reflection on serious issues.
Animator Rony Oren will be honored by the festival. Clay animation artist Oren has created over 500 films, including The Egg, Foxy Fables, Tales of a Wise King and Grabbit the Rabbit. Oren, who served as Chair of the Animation Department at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, will conduct workshops during the festival, sharing the secrets of claymation.
More Israeliana – Yehoshua (Jacky) Jackson has created a weekly visual riddle for children in the Yediyot Ahronot newspaper since 1963! Animix will celebrate Jacky’s 50th!
International guests at the festival:
Morton Thorning, general director of The Animation Workshop in Denmark. Thorning will participate in a special discussion that looks at the influence of the changes in the technology of the art of animation have influenced the education of animators. The meeting will be moderated by Ori Kranot.
Director Ken Kimmelman, awarded an Emmy for his film Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana, which brings Eli Seigal’s poem to vivid life onscreen. Kimmelman will give a talk on the connection between animation and ethics and the motivating forces of animated stories past to present.
Alain Escalle will share his expertise in digital compositing and post-production with the audience and talk about utilizing the computer to create films with a sense of the human spirit and emotional impact. Escalle’s experimental film Le Livre des Morts (The Book of the Dead) will be shown as part of a program of animated films relating to the Holocaust.
Some festival highlights:
A look at Israeli media through the eyes of caricature artists – this sounds like fun! The caricatures will be on exhibition during the Animix festival.
Elad Giladi will give a talk on Islamic comics and the world wide popularity of comics in Arabic.
The Caricature of the Brain, a special program produced in cooperation with The Hebrew University Center for Brain Research that enlists the best Israeli caricaturists to present the human brain in color, with humor and hyperbole.
Matan Cohen will give a talk on “Heroes Outside the Closet” on the gender revolution in comics.
Shai Cherka will discuss the artistic process of transforming three short stories by Nobel Prize winning author S. Y. Agnon into comics.
A panoramic view of new Israeli animation at the annual ASIFA Israel event, with awards for the best of the bunch – not to be missed!
From across the sea – a program of Oscar winning animation, including the lovely, romantic Paperman (the 2012 black and white 3D hand-drawn/computer animated film was produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and directed by John Kahrs), and many more…
A lively look at women, men and relationships in a program that includes a wonderful short written and directed by Goran Dukic, based on the short story What Do We Have in Our Pockets by Etgar Keret, and one of my current favorites, Tram by Czech animator Michaela Pavlátová, winner of the Annecy Cristal prize at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, 2012.
The full program will be available on the Tel Aviv Cinematheque site, www.cinema.co.il. Ticket prices range from 15 – 50 NIS, depending on the program, to order, call: 03-6060800, ext. 1.
Animix is produced in cooperation with the Tel Aviv Municipality Department of Performances, Tel Aviv Cinematheque and the Ministry of Culture – Israeli Cinema Council. Artistic director: Nissim Hezkiyahu, Animation curator: Dudu Shalita, Producer: Galit Bersky.
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