Animation 17 Jan 2006 08:48 am
Nina Paley and a party
Tonight at 8:00 ASIFA-East, the local chapter of the organization, is having a holiday party. (Wasn’t Martin Luther King’s day yesterday?) At Gonzales & Gonzales, 625 Broadway off Houston Street. (It’ll be like old-home week. For years members of my studio would cross the street to gather and drink margaritas after work at the restaurant. Then we moved.)
For over twenty years, the ASIFA-East Animation Festival used to be held on the last Thursday of January. This was always a good reason for a big party in the dry part of the month. After the Festival was moved to May (for warm reasons), there’s been this gaping hole in January which this party should resolve.
I am an ardent fan of Nina Paley‘s work. She taught me to never say never, which is how I viewed flash animation until seeing her films. She has been working on a feature version of The Ramayana, one bit at a time, and infrequently releases short, musical segments from that film. If any films have bridged the gap between East and West, these are those. You can see them and other works from her on-line as well as read letters from interested viewers of the site at: www.NinaPaley.com. If you don’t know Nina’s work; go.
