January 22nd - February 2nd Film Forum presents - A Room And A Half
Joseph Brodsky, the Russian-Jewish-American poet, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1987 and was made poet laureate of the U.S. in 1991. Given that he was expelled from the USSR in 1972, it’s not surprising that much of his writing deals with themes of exile, loss and memory. An imagined return to the parents he never saw again and his childhood home of St. Petersburg ("a city whose color was fossilized vodka") is the essence of this wonderfully nostalgic, whimsical movie. Made by famed Russian animator Andrey Khrzhanovsky, A ROOM AND A HALF recalls the glory years of a much-loved child and the particular absurdities and indignities suffered by Jews under the Soviet regime in the ’50s and ’60s. The filmmaker’s light touch — his use of animation, stills, archival footage, and scripted, dramatic material — melds the sophisticated surrealism of Magritte with the folk mysticism of Chagall With support from the Joan S. Constantiner Fund for Jewish and Holocaust Film Film Forum
NYICFF and Symphony Space presents - Sita Sings the Blues
Tragedy, comedy and musical collide in this gloriously animated film from New York’s own "One Woman Pixar" (Wired). Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three bickering shadow puppets act as comic narrators as these old and new stories are interwoven in a post-modern retelling of the ancient Indian epic Ramayana, animated in a dazzling mix of traditional and collage animation styles. Sita Sings the Blues follows in the line of Triplets of Bellville and Spirited Away to exemplify animation as a "serious" art form -- which does not stop it from being laugh-out-loud funny! A panoply of monsters, gods, goddesses, warriors, sages, and winged eyeballs fill the screen with vivid color from start to finish, while the narrators’ improvisational debates over the Rama legend join the filmmaker’s own tragicomic story to layer a modern feminist commentary on the ancient tale. The result is a subtly subversive, visually stunning, highly original work that is as enjoyable for children as it is for adults. While you watch the film, enjoy a glass of wine and a light snack in the intimate cabaret atmosphere of the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Sun, Jan 31 at 5:30 pm Symphony Space
Museum of the Moving Image presents - Presidents' Week Family Programs During this holiday period, the Museum will offer extended hours, daily screenings of the acclaimed stop-motion movie A Town Called Panic, and two different hands-on workshops for children
A Town Called Panic Moving Pictures Workshop Stop-Motion Animation Workshop Museum of the Moving Image
School of Visual Arts presents - Q&A with Yuri Norstein
The Film Video and Animation Department cordially invite the SVA community and our Animation friends to a rare opportunity for a Q&A with YURI NORSTEIN, renowned Russian Director and Animator! CREDITS INCLUDE: SVA
Jacob Burns Film Center presents - Shinbone Alley
Featuring gorgeous, bright animation and finger-snapping music, Shinbone Alley is "pure sophisticated entertainment for all" (New York Magazine). Capturing all the offbeat charm of Don Marquis' archy and mehitabel stories, from which it’s adapted, the movie tells the tale of an intensely romantic cockroach in love with a sexy, independent cat who’s voiced by Carol Channing. Kids will be enchanted and adults amused - and even moved The Jacob Burns Film Center
Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art presents - Animation Development from Pitch to Production
With David Levy and Brown Johnson There are so many misconceptions, myths, and madness clouding up the reality of what it really takes to develop, pitch, and sell an animated project. Utilizing his own ten year experience in the pitching world, along with candid advice from successful creators and leading development executives alike, author and animation director David B. Levy has put together a useful book on the subject: Animation Development: From Pitch to Production (Allworth Press). Join us for an intimate industry panel on the ins-and-outs of pitching today and be sure to bring your questions too. Followed immediately by a book signing event Admission: $5 MoCCA
ASIFA-East presents - Steven Zelin, The Singing CPA
The Business of Being an Artist Steven Zelin is the Singing CPA. He writes and performs funny songs about taxes and accounting, and he's been a certified public accountant for over 10 years. He started his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers and currently is the principal of a practice specializing in providing high quality tax and accounting services to individuals, small businesses and non-profit organizations. He has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Nightline, The New York Daily News and many radio shows. He is a regular guest speaker at SVA and teaches Accounting at Long Island University. Mr. Zelin has an MBA in Finance and Marketing from Fordham University He will join us on Feb 19 to discuss (and sing about) the business of being an artist with a focus on taxes as April 15th approaches. He will walk us through an interactive exercise in preparing a tax return, give advice on record keeping for artists, and provide resources on how you could get your tax returns prepared for free. Bring your tax questions to what is sure to be an entertaining event! Admission: Free! SVA
GKids presents - New York International Children's Film Festival 2010
NYICFF 2010 - TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW! The festival takes place Feb 26 to Mar 21 with 100+ films, gala premieres, workshops, filmmaker Q&As, parties, voting and awards! Various NYC Locations
Animazing Gallery presents - Ralph Bakshi Art Exhibit, The Streets
Ralph Bakshi will return to Animazing Gallery in SoHo for a reception where his altogether new series of fine art paintings will be debuted in an exhibition entitled The Streets. This bold series of mixed-media construction/paintings was inspired by the gritty and colorful neighborhoods of Bakshi’s youth in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn MoCCA, New York’s Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art will present a lifetime achievement award to Mr. Bakshi at the opening reception on Friday, March 19th, from 6-9PM (by invitation.) A public meet and greet reception takes place on Saturday March 20th, 2-5PM Admission is free and open to the public Animazing Gallery
Symphony Space presents - The Gustafer Yellowgold Show
Created by singer/songwriter Morgan Taylor, minimally animated illustrations of Gustafer Yellowgold and his friends are accompanied by Taylor's catchy original story-songs for a truly remarkable and memorable multimedia experience "...a cross between ‘Yellow Submarine' and Dr. Seuss, filtered through the lens of the Lower East Side." -Time Out New York Kids Symphony Space
ASIFA-East presents - Winning selections from the 1st annual AniMazing Spotlight Festival
The first annual AniMazing Spotlight animated shorts festival was presented November 7-8 at the legendary Egyptian theater in Hollywood. ASIFA International has made special arrangement with AniMazing Spotlight to make its program of 14 award winning films available to ASIFA members in all international chapters. ASIFA-East is delighted to present this program to its members Our thanks to ASIFA International and festival organizer Tee Bosustow for this special programSVA
The Museum of Modern Art presents - Tim Burton Retrospective
This major career retrospective on Tim Burton, consisting of a gallery exhibition and a film series, considers Burton's career as a director, producer, writer, and concept artist for live-action and animated films, along with his work as a fiction writer, photographer and illustrator Film exhibition: 11/18 - 4/26 MoMA
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