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Please Post The Largest Annual Presentation of Independent Animation in the U.S. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts Presented in cooperation with CENTER SCREEN Inc. St. THE BOSTON E 24 Quincy Information: 494-0200 Harvard University, Cambridge, Ma. X The 8th Animation Series is dedicated to the memory of Jan Lenica's ELECTRONIC ANIMATION Parker, who died in October from cancer. ADAM II animator Claire March 20, 21, Fri., Sat., Sun. Born in Brookline, Mass., she worked for many years in Boston-area Premieres 19, with her husband, Alexander Alexeieff. Paris as collaborator Feb. 26, 27, 28 and March 5, 6, 7, Fri. Sat., Sun Her vitality, humor and grace rewarded those who knew her. Fri., Sat. : 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Sun.: 5:30 and 7:30 p.m . THE BEST OF NEW ANIMATION Boston-area Premieres Feb. 5, 6, 7 and 12, 13, 14, Fri., Sat., Sun. m. N Fri. & Sat. : 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Sun.: 5 :30 and 7:30 p. E vm a Part I: Film. 11(80 mins. 1973), Not currently in U.S. distribution, Adam Presented in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 7:30 is a journey through the strange landscape of a modern 19 and 20. No film now liv- and 9:30 p.m. on Fri. and Sat., March Adam, by the master Polish animator Jan Lenica, in the Carpenter Center on Sun., with cooperation ofthe Goethe Insti- showings or program ing in Paris. Presented March 21. tutes in Boston and Munich and the Stadtmuseum in hS Munich . Stan Vanderbeek's Who Ho Rays, John Whitney, Jr.'s Terminal Self, Larry Cuba's Two Space, John Whitney, i1X . Sr.'s Arabesque, Arthur Olson and T.J. O'Donnell's Adam, Stan Vanderbeek's Euclidean Illusions, Jim Blinn's :. p THE BEST OF Vol TO" oc rtr Voyager 1 Encounters Saturn, Loren Carpenter's Libre, Nelson Max' Zooms On Self Same Figures, Jud- ADULT ANIMATION Digital Effects, Inc., Fri., Sat., Sun. son Rosebush et al.'s Sample Reel: March 12, 13, 14, Eccles, et al.'s Evans And Suterland Griffin's Flying Fur (1981, 7 mins.), Robert Breer's Sun. : and p.m. John Robinson, Dane George Fri., Sat.: 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., 5:30 7:30 Taylor et al.'s Sample Reel: Information Swiss Army Knife With Wraps And Pigeons (1981,8 Ct5, Richard mina.), Steve Eagle's Along The Way (1981, 3 mina.), Vin- International. McMillan's cent Collins' Euphoria (1976, 3.5 mins.), Michael Video. Be My Gas (1980, 1.5 mina.), Jan Millsapps' Family Part II: (1980,6 mins.), Michael Patterson's Commuter Presented on the color video projection system in the Arco Dream Government, 79 Boylston (1981' 5 mins.), Steve Socki's Water Cycle (1981, 5 mins.), Forum of the Kennedy School. of Katherline Li's Tearing (1980, 1.5 mins.), Ishu Patel's Top St., Harvard Square. Video program presented in collabora- (1981, 9 mins.), Janet Perlman's The Tender Tale tion with the Institute of Politics, Kennedy School . Video Priority 9:30 p.m. Of Cinderella Penguin (1981, 10 mins.), Bretislav Pojar's Carpenter and showings in the Kennedy School at 7:30 and Suzan Pitt's Asparagus (1978, 19 mins.), Jeff and 20. No video showing on E (1981, 6 mina.), Vivienne Cave's Luna, Luna, Luna (1981, Movements (1977, 13 mins.), on Fri. and Sat., March 19 The Elephant's Mary Lambert's Rapid Eye March 21 (except Cuba presentation). 12.5 mins.), Gail Banker's Sketches For Colver's A Tasteful Romance (1979, 4.5 mins.), Caro- Sun., .), James Rietz' Dream Of The Clint Snyder's Child (1981,3 mina line Leaf and Veronika Soul's Interview (1979, 13.5 mins.), Woody Vasulka's The Matter and Artifacts, Bob Ropemaker (1981, 1 min.), Dennis Pies' A Hard Passage Why Me? (1979, 10 mins.), 77 and Icron, Ron Hays' Canon, Tom Street (1981, Derek Lamb and Janet Perlman's Winter Notebook (1981, 8 mins.), Bernard Longpre 's One Way Soul's How The Hell Are You? (1972, 12 mins.), DeFanti and Dan Sandin's Spiral 5, Bill Kovacs et al.'s Borenstein's Five Billion Years (1981, 7 Veronika Emshwiller's 12 mins.). Joyce Mary Beams' Seed Reel (1975,4 mins.), John Straiton's Sample Reel: Bob Abel And Associates, Ed mina.), Skip Battaglia's Boccioni's Bike (1981, 8 mins. ) . Selwood's Odalisque Grabill's Driving Time, and Peggy Weil including Eurynome (1970,7 mins.), Maureen Sunstone, Vin Outstanding new works ofpersonal animation, Bob Godfrey's Dream Doll (1980, 12 mina.), and Howard Eglowstein's Zero Bandwidth Video. Fur, a tour-de-force contemporary (1980, 12 mins.), George Griffin's Flying and George Griffin's The Club (1975, 4.5 mins.). cat-and-mouse chase, set to the sound track of an old Tom Part III: Larry Cuba in Person. Family Dream, an explo- complementary program to the WGBH/CENTER and Jerry cartoon; Jan Millsaps' As a Sunday, March 21, 7:30 p.m. only. Arco Forum, Kennedy ofthe connection between dreams and family rela- SCREEN independent animation special on WGBH-TV ration we School of Government. Computer artist Larry Cuba will tionships; and Janet Perlman's The Tender Tale Of Cin- ("One Frame at a Time" in January -see box on back), outstanding works present "An Introduction To Computer Animation Tech- derella Penguin, a musical retelling ofthe rags-to-riches present a selection ofother popular, excerpts. No program in the also been shown in their area-premieres in the niques," with slides and video story. which have Carpenter Center on Sunday . previous 7 Animation Series. Each film in this program uses animated means to deal with some of the basic concerns of Note: There will be sufficient time between film and video adult relationships: sex, love, friendship, creativity, and programs at the Carpenter Center and the Kennedy School LEN LYE death. Including Suzan Pitt's Asparagus, a visual poem to get from one to the other, a distance of about 3 blocks. that is an erotic allegory of the creative process; Maureen and video RETROSPECTIVE dreams; Bob An unusual program ofthe best of recent film Feb. 19, 20, 21, Fri., Sat., Sun. Selwood's Odalisque, a trilogy ofamorous computer-assisted animation techniques which Doll, an unrequited love story involving a created by Fri. & Sat. : 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Sun. : 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. Godfrey's Dream are revolutionizing the field. This program was guest curated meek gentleman and a plastic love doll; and Derek Lamb known for his character discov- by California computer artist Larry Cuba, best and Janet Perlman's Why Me?, in which a and 3/78, and for the com- has its mortal limits . independent films, Two Space ers that even animation puter animation sequence in Star Wars. With the explosion ********************* of new technology of the last few years, the nature of tradi- tional animation - laboriously made frame-by-frame -is being radically altered, with "real-time" animation, artificial J * GERMAN "realism," and immensely complicated sequences regularly W a sampling of W J EXPERIMENTAL being accomplished . This program emphasizes the best new personal works, as well as examples of F * FILMS OF THE 70's advanced techniques in commercial and scientific works. March and Sat. and Sun. notes by Gloria Simmons, Laboratory for Computer ever presented in New Eng- 13 14, Program The most complete retrospective to main lecture hall .) and Spatial Analysis, Harvard University. great pioneers of independent animation, * Rm . B-04 (adjacent Graphics land of one ofthe with the Goethe Len Lye, who died in 1980. In the 1930's and 40's, Lye origi- * Presented in cooperation nated "direct filmmaking" (scratching and painting directly Institute, Boston. onto film), integrated live action forms into animation, and Mr. Klaus Telscher, filmmaker and teacher from Germany), CZECH ANIMATION radically utilized such techniques as rotoscoping and matte * the Federal Republic of Germany (West Fri., Sat., Sun. he worked with the a brief presentation before the first show- March 26, 27, 28, printing. A native New Zealander, will make and Sun.: 5:30 and 7:30 p. m. legendary John Grierson in Great Britain, and later in New * ing each evening. None of these films are ani- Fri., Sat. : 7:30 9:30 p.m., tech- when needed. York, producing such classics of wit, rhythm, color and mated, and all have English subtitles Automatic (1975,5 mina.), Jaroslav Boc- Tattoo, Rainbow Dance, and Sat., March 13: Vaclav Bedrich's nical innovation as Trade *. Beginning at 7 p.m., ek's Brave Kate (1978, 16 mina.), Mojmir Jaros' Fantasy Colour Box. The program includes five films made in the Dore O.'s Lawale (1969, 31 mins.) and Kaskara Viktor Kubai's The Ladder and rare prints from the Nachtwache ,* For Everyday (1981, 7 mins.), U.S. but not yet in distribution here, * (1974, 21 mina.), Bastian Cleve's (1981, 6 mins.), Garik Seko's The Old Astronomical Clock collections of the Cinematheque Quebecoise in Montreal and (1975, 11 mins.),.Empor (1976, 11 mina.) and Nach 10 mina.), Jan . American films cour- .: Klaus (1978, 13 mins.), Mechanical Crabs (1977, the National Film Archives in London Bluff (1976, 13 mins.). Beginning at 9 p.m Walk (1974, 8 minx.), I. Renc's S.O.S. (1979, 10 tesy ofthe Len Lye Foundation, New Zealand. Our apprecia- Birth OfA Nation (1972, 80 mins.). Zahradnik's * Wyborny's mins.), Jaroslav Zahradnik's On AString (1974,8 mins.) tion to those organizations, and to Bill Sloan and the Beginning at 6 p.m., Sun., March 14: Modern Art film department.
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