SUZAN PITT abbreviated resume 1725 Burnell Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90065 Phone & Fax: (323) 352 4488 Email: [email protected]
Animated Films Created by Suzan Pitt:
2013 PINBALL, 7 minutes, digital
2011 Visitation, 9 minutes, black and white
2006 El Doctor, 24 min., 35mm, color Prizes: Best Short Film, Sin Fronteras Film Festival, New Mexico (2006) Special Jury Prize, Huesca International Film Festival, Spain (2006) Best Animated Film, Ojai International Film Festival, Ojai, California (2006) First Prize for Animation, Morelia Film Festival, Michoacan, Morelia, Mexico (2006) First Prize for Animation, Arizona International Film Festival Tucson, Arizona (2007) Special Jury Prize, I Reel Film Festival, Seattle, Washington (2007)
Selected Screenings El Doctor-And over 100 international film festivals 2006-2017 Museum of Modern Art, New York SICAF 2010, Seoul, Korea Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, CA Fest Anka, Slovakia Rio International Short Film Festival, Brazil And over 100 international film festivals 2006-2011
1995 Joy Street, 24 min., 35 mm, color 2004 Broadcast Sundance Channel 1998 NEMN Gold Apple Award 1997 Merit Award, International Wildlife Film Festival, Montana First Place for Short Film, Naples International Film Festival, Italy 1996 Sundance Film Festival- Park City, Utah London Film Festival- England Hiroshima International Animation Film Festival- Japan Cardiff International Festival of Film Animation- England Oslo International Animation Festival- Norway Festival due Noveau Cinéma- Montreal 24th Wellington Film Festival- New Zealand Jerusalem International Film Festival- Israel First Prize, Black Maria Film Festival –national US tour Portland International Film Festival- Portland, Oregon Golden Gate Award, San Francisco International Film Festival- San Francisco Cleveland International Film Festival- Cleveland South by Southwest Film Festival- Austin, Texas Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema- Philadelphia PA Arizona International Film Festival- Tucson, Arizona Bumbershoot Film Festival- Seattle 1995 New York Film Festival- NY, NY
1979 Asparagus, 20 min., 35 mm, color. 1979 Main Prize and International Critics Prize, Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany Best Film of 1978, ASIFA East Annual Awards (International Association of Film Animation) First Prize, Ann Arbor Film Festival First Prize, Kenyon Film Festival First Prize, Baltimore Film Festival First Prize, Atlanta Independent Film and Video Festival
1988 The Damnation of Faust (Set and Costume Designer)- One hour of animation, 35 mm, color, for the Hamburg State Opera. Silver Mask Award.
Selected Solo Film Retrospectives 2008-2017 Husets Biograf Cinema, Copenhagen International Festival Etiuda&Anima Krakow, Poland ZUID CINEMA, Antwerp OFFSCREEN FESTIVAL, Brussels, Belgium KINO IM SPRENGEL, Hannover, Germany KASK CINEMA, Ghent, Belgium FLATPACK FESTIVAL, Birmingham, England MELKWEG THEATER, Amsterdam, Netherlands ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART, London, England London Horse Hospital Underground/ presented by the London Animation Festival “Suzan Pitt’s World” Lincoln Center, NY presented by the Lincoln Center Film Society “Suzan Pitt Retrospective”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Flanders International Film Festival, Ghent, Belgium Redcat Theater, Los Angeles, California Austin Film Society, Austin, Texas International Conference on Animation, Taipei, Taiwan Film Forum Box Theater, Tokyo, Japan Chonju Film Festival (spotlight), Chonju, Korea Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois Anthology Film Archives, New York Media Study Center, Buffalo, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France
Solo Exhibitions of Painting: 2 2015 Marquette History Center, Marquette Michigan 1999 Ginza Art Space, Tokyo 1997 Women and Their Work, Austin, Texas 1993 Guatemalan American Institute, Guatemala City, Guatemala 1986 Gallozzi-La Placa Gallery, New York 1984 Cantor/Lemberg Gallery, Detroit, Michigan Delahunty Gallery, New York 1982 Delahunty Gallery, New York 1981 Galerie Denise Rene/Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany 1980 Galerie Denise Rene/Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany 1979 Holly Solomon Gallery, New York The Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri 1974 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Fellowships and Grants: 2009 Center for Cultural Innovation, Artistic Innovation Grant 2003 ITVS (Independent Television Service) Production Grant Latino Public Broadcasting Production Grant 2002 The California Community Foundation, Artist Fellowship Creative Capital, Artist Fellowship 2001 National Endowment For The Arts Production Grant 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship 1997 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship
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