ANIMATOR FESTIVAL POZNAN

From: Bruce Checefsky (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Apr 16 2008 - 09:00:06 PDT

ANIMATOR FESTIVAL POZNAN
 7 – 12 JULY, 2008
PROGRAMME

Official Films in Competition – Muza Cinema
7 – 11 July 12 pm and 8 pm
• competition screenings open to public

Free entry

Animation and Music Part I – University Concert Hall (Aula UAM)
Music films screenings and screenings with live music

7 July 7.30 pm Opening Gala
• Music films from TV Animation Film Studio in Poznan
            Live music performed by the Amadeus Orchestra, conducted by
            Agnieszka Duczmal
      8 July 7.30 pm
• Pioneers of Animation - W_adys_aw Starewicz
Screenings with live music - Euphonium, France
      9 July 7.30 pm
• Peter and the Wolf, directed by Suzie Templeton, Great Britain/Poland, 2006,
music: Sergey Prokofiev. The 2007 Oscar for the best animated short film. The film will be shown with
the live music performed by the Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonic Orchestra from _σd_, conducted by
Marcin Wolniewski

Tickets required

        
Animation and Music Part II – Outdoor Screenings

9 July 11 pm
• The Quay Brothers ballet films: Duet, Sandman, Eurydice
 10 July 11 pm
• Zbig Rybczy_ski music film Orchestra
11 July 11 pm
• The Quay Brothers music film The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes

Free entry

Animation and Music – Outdoor Screenings
Music films screenings and screenings with live music

7 July 10 pm
• Andrzej Czeczot Eden (Johnny Walker)
Screening with live music performed by Poci_g towarowy group (Krzysztof Knittel, Piotr Bikont,
W_odzimierz Kiniorski, Marek Cho_oniewski)
8 July 10 pm
• Animation and Jazz – films with music by Krzysztof Komeda.
      Hubley family films
9 July 10 pm
• Animated video clips by Zbig Rybczy_ski, the Quay Brothers, Polish animators
10 July 9 pm
• Harry Smith, Early Abstractions with improvised live jazz music performed by Francis Wong Trio
/USA/
11 July 9 pm
• Mariusz Wilczy_ski’s films with live music performed by FISZ/EMADE

Free entry

Full-length Films/Premiθres – Apollo Cinema
7 July 5 pm
• Idiots and Angels, Bill Plympton, USA, 2008 PREMIΘRE
8 July 5 pm
• Pioneers of Animation - Quirino Cristiani. The Mystery of the First Animated Movies, dir. Gabrielle
Zucchelli, Italy/Spain/
Great Britain (documentary) 2007 PREMIΘRE
9 July 5 pm
• Retrospective of films by Mariusz Wilczy_ski
10 July 5 pm
• SPECIAL SCREENING of films by Zbig Rybczy_ski
11 July 5 pm
• Retrospective of films by the Quay Brothers
12 July 5 pm
• Retrospective of films by Hubley Family

Tickets required

Presentations of Other Festivals, Retrospectives – Muza Cinema

 7 July 2 am
• Films by Aleksander Tatarski
              6 pm
• Zdzis_aw Lachur - retrospective

8 July 2 am
• Pioneers of Animation - Retrospective of Julian Pappι
              6 pm
• Igor Kovalyov - retrospective

9 July 2 am
• Aurora Festival (Norwich, UK) - presentation
              6 pm
• Bady Minck - retrospective

10 July 2 am
• Retrospective of German Animation
              6 pm
• ETIUDA in Poznan (films from Etiuda & Anima Festival in Cracow)

11 July 2 am
• Contemporary Polish Animation (Best of 2001-2006)
               6 pm
• Witold Giersz - retrospective

12 July 2 am
• Brussels ’58 - selection of films shown at the legendary experimental film competition at which
Polish films won the Grand Prix and 3rd prize.

Tickets required

Off and Avant-garde Animation

Outdoor screenings at Old Market Square / The Arsena_ Municipal Gallery 8 – 12 July

• Polish OFF Animation and Children Film Studio - the Entropia Gallery from Wroc_aw
• Animation in the works of contemporary Polish artists
• Animated films realized at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan

Programme realized in collaboration with the Arsena_ Municipal Gallery, Pozna_

Scena na Pi_trze

 8 July 9 pm
• Tatsu Aoki –retrospective with live music performed by the artist
 9 July 9 pm
• Jaros_aw Kapu_ci_ski - concert with his computer projection
Free entry

Animator for Children
Project realised in collaboration with the Children Art Centre in Poznan, the organizer of the
International Film Festival for Young Audience- Ale kino!

Culture Centre Zamek, Poznan 7 – 12 July
• Three Musketeers, directed by Janis Cimermanis, Denmark, Latvia 2006
Film dubbed by the best Polished actors.
Screening will be accompanied by acted scenes, fencing demonstration and games for kids. Family
entertainment.
• Puppets from the Baltic States
Screening of excellent puppet animation from two Baltic States animation studios: Nukufilm from
Estonia and AB from Latvia.

• Fairy-tales by grandma, granddaddy, mummy, daddy...My fair- tales!
Top Polish animations – animated films which have entertained and educated several generations of
Poles and still fascinate our kids, grandkids and even great grandkids.

• Animator of Tomorrow – workshops. 5-day workshops for children will provide them with an
opportunity to work under the guidance of outstanding international animators. Short films by our
young artists will be premiered on July 12th before Three Musketeers

Free entry

        
EXHIBITIONS

Culture Centre Zamek, Poznan 7 July – 18 August
• Exhibition of BORO - Borowczyk (1923 – 2006 )
• Retrospective of Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica

Realised as collaboration between Culture Centre Zamek from Poznan and Centre for Contemporary
Art, Zamek Ujazdowski from Warsaw
Tickets required

OKO/UCHO Gallery 12 July godz. 19.00
• Franciszka and Stefan Themerson - films and reconstructions,, exhibition of their film ouevre
Free entry

60th Anniversary of Polish Animation –
10 July Multikino, The Old Brewery/ Stary Browar 9 pm
• Polish Animation Film Studios present their films

Tickets required

12 July 12 pm Polish Academy of Sciences, PAN in Poznan
• PANEL DISCUSSION

Competition

12 July 8.30 pm Apollo Cinema
• Closing Gala – Awards Ceremony

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