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
209 W. Houston Street
Bet. 6th Ave and Varick(7th Ave)
NYC
www.filmforum.org
January 31st - February 14th
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
Sun, Feb 7 at 5:30 pm
Sun, Feb 14 at 1 pm and 5:30 pm
Symphony Space
Leonard Nimoy Thalia
2537 Broadway
(@95th Street)
www.symphonyspace.org
www.gkids.com
February 13th - 21st
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
In Tut's Fever Movie Palace
Daily 11 a.m., 12:30, 2, and 3:30 p.m.
Recommended for ages 8 and older
2008, 75 mins. Zeitgeist Films. In French with English subtitles. Directed by Stéphane Aubier & Vincent Patar. Made with plastic toys, painted sets, a surreal sense of humor, and boundless imagination, the Beligian animated film A Town Called Panic is the first stop-motion movie to be an official selection of the Cannes Film Festival. The film stars three toys named Cowboy, Indian, and Horse, who share a house in a rural town; Cowboy and Indian’s plan to make a homemade barbecue for Horse goes awry when they accidentally order 50 million bricks. A supremely silly film with echoes of Buster Keaton, A Town Called Panic is a treat for children and adults. Tickets: $10 per person for film and Museum admission / Free for Museum members
Moving Pictures Workshop
Daily at 11:30 a.m.
Ages 6-12. 45 mins. Children discover what makes moving images move and make their own Thaumatrope—a nineteenth-century optical toy—to take home. Materials fee: $5 per child / Free for Museum members. Space is limited; register when you arrive at the Museum
Stop-Motion Animation Workshop
Daily at 1 and 2:30 p.m.
Ages 10 and older. 45 mins. Children learn about the technique of stop-motion animation and create their own animations to share online. Materials fee: $10 per child / Free for Museum members. Space is limited; register when you arrive at the Museum
Museum of the Moving Image
35th Avenue at 36th Street, Astoria
(take the N or W subway)
www.movingimage.us
February 15th, Monday 6:30pm
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:
-Hedge in the Fog
-Tale of Tales
-The Heron and the Crane
-The Overcoat (in production)
SVA
School Of Visual Arts
Visual Arts Theatre
333 West 23 Street
(Bet. 8th & 9th Ave)
NYC
www.schoolofvisualarts.edu
February 16th, Tuesday
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
364 Manville Road
Pleasantville, NY
www.burnsfilmcenter.org
February 18th, Thursday 7pm
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
Free for MoCCA Members
MoCCA
Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
594 Broadway, Suite 401
Bet. Prince and Houston
NYC
www.moccany.org
February 19th, Friday 7pm
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
School Of Visual Arts
209 East 23rd Street
(Bet. 2nd & 3rd Ave)
Room 502, 5th Floor
NYC
www.schoolofvisualarts.edu
www.TheSingingCPA.com
February 26th - March 21st
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
www.gkids.com
March 20th - May 15th
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
54 Greene St.
(corner of Greene & Broome)
NYC
www.animazing.com
April 17th, Saturday 11am
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
Peter Jay Sharp Theatre
2537 Broadway
(@95th Street)
NYC
www.symphonyspace.org
www.gustaferyellowgold.com
April 21st, Wednesday 7pm
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
School Of Visual Arts
209 East 23rd Street
(Bet. 2nd & 3rd Ave)
5th Floor Gene Stavis screening room
NYC
www.animazspot.com
Through April 26th
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
Gallery exhibition: 11/22 - 4/26
MoMA
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
(bet. Fifth and Sixth Aves.)
NYC
www.moma.org
