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Animation to Write Home About
ANIMATION TO WRITE HOME ABOUT
September 30th at 8:15 PM
Creative visuals can help us focus on the written word, enhance it, or comment on it. Whether a direct adaption of a preexisting text, or a rumination on the concept of language itself, this selection allows us to celebrate the union of animation and language.
Out of Print
Daniel Schiff
Seattle, WA
2014 - 7 min
Books tell us what they really think about our changing relationship with technology.
Missed Aches
Joanna Priestley
Portland, OR
2009 4 min
A witty commentary on ignorance, idiocy and our over-reliance on spell check. Written and narrated by Taylor Mali.
Charles Bukowski Uncensored & Animated
Drew Christie
Seattle, WA
2014 3 min
Candid conversations between Charles Bukowski, his wife, and his producer took place in Bukowski's home in 1993. They are brought to life in an animation that matches their loose and laid back tone.
When Men Go Off to War
Noah Dorsey
Portland, OR
2014 3 min
Seattle Premiere
Restless swirls of color dominate this animated interpretation of a poem by Victoria Kelly. Adapted for Motionpoems.
The Beautiful Soul
Luca Dipierro
Portland, OR
2012 2 min
Creepy and oddly charming single sentence animation for Electric Literature.
Cats
Neely Goniodsky
Seattle, WA
2014 1 min
WA Premiere:
A liquidy and luscious interpretation of a poem by A.S.J. Tessimond.
Kubla Khan
Joan Gratz
Portland, OR
2011 - 4 min
Oscar winner Joan Gratz puts her prodigious clay painting talents to work re-imagining for the classic poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge of 1797.
Some Trees
Kurtis Hough
Portland, OR
2014 - 2 min
Seattle Premiere:
A dark, split screen, curiously emotional interpretation of the poem A Boy by John Ashbery from 1956.
Insect Poetry
Marilyn Zornado
Portland, OR
2012 6 min
The Insect Literary Society, presided over by the scholarly Book Weevil, convenes to share their latest poems.
Cross Ties
Laura DiTrapani
Portland, OR
1998 - 4 min
An animated and symbolic interpretation of the development of Western written language.
Shiro Yagi
Cindy Mochizuki Vancouver, BC
2013 12 min
Seattle Premiere:
A haunting exploration of memory, this film is inspired by a piece of music and poem from the artist's grandfather, written in 1927.
The Kids
Neely Goniodsky
Seattle, WA
2015 2min
World Premiere:
A coarse and sketchy interpretation of Canon Parker's sardonic poem.
Old Time Film
Marilyn Zornado & Barbara Tetenbaum
Portland, OR
2012 3 min
A letterpress-printed animation short made entirely with antique news cuts, printer's ornaments, hand-set type and bell wire on a Vandercook SP-15.
At the Quinte Hotel
Bruce Alcock
Vancouver, BC
2005 - 4 min
A gorgeous, playful, and masterful free-association interpretation of a poem written and read by Canadian poet Al Purdy.
A Painful Glimpse Into My Writing Process [;In Less Than 60 Seconds];
Chel White
Portland, OR
2005 2 min
Dark and humorous, this extremely short film is a stream-of-conscious look at the writing process, told with animated images straight from the subconscious or somewhere.
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