PNCA AND NWFC PRESENT: RE-SITUATED ANIMATION

Special Screenings

NCA AND NWFC PRESENT: RE-SITUATED ANIMATION
DIRECTOR: VARIOUS
US, 2004-2011

VISITING ARTISTS—The boundaries between high and low dissolve in this program of work by artists who push animation beyond traditional conventions and into the intersection with visual art experimentation. Presented in conjunction with Pacific Northwest College of Art’s Boundary Crossings: An Institute in Contemporary Animated Arts, these films embrace new digital technologies as readily as the earliest animated techniques. The program includes Casandra C. Jones’ EVENTIDE (2004), a snap-motion re-animation of the sunset; Jacob Ciocci’s THE PEACE TAPE (2008), a frenetic remix of old and new “found” video; Marieke Verbiesen’s RELOADED (2010), an mini-epic in which a scientific experiment goes terribly, terribly wrong; Duncan Malashock’s TWO THINGS (2010), a video game narrative that considers the convergence of social and personal concerns; Marina Zurkow’s MESCOSM (2011), an animated landscape portrait representing one year of real time on the moors of Northumberland; and Lorelei Pepi’s HAPPY AND GAY (2010), a revisionist history, queer cartoon informed by 1930s Hollywood animation tradition and the early Hollywood “Code.” (70 mins.)

Filmmakers Marina Zurkow, Lorelei Pepi, Marieke Verbiesen, and Rose Bond will be on hand to talk about their work.