Michael Sporn Animation – Splog

Talking of art, the Film Forum has begun screening two films about important female artists. The two documentaries are:
Kiki Smith: Squatting The Palace, and Agnes Martin: With My Back To The World.

You can watch a trailer for the Kiki Smith film here. For further information or to buy tickets in advance, go here.

Kiki Smith sculpting in clay.

Coming next week, for one week only Jan 19-25, the theater will screen an exclusive program:

The Tales of The Brothers Quay.
The program will include the following films:

The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (1984)
The Epic of Gilgamesh (1985)
Street of Crocodiles (1986)
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (1986)
Dramolet (Stille Nacht I) (1988)
Anamorphosis (1991)
The Comb (From the Museums of Sleep) (1991)
Are We Still Married? (Stille Nacht II) (1991)
Tales from the Vienna Woods (Stille Nacht III) (1992)
Can’t Go Wrong Without You (Stille Nacht IV) (1993)
In Absentia (2000)

The Fablevision site gives a number of children’s books – for on-line consumption – by Fablevision owner, Peter Reynolds. These are nicely done mini-books worth taking a look. They’re certainly fun to give to children who have a computer handy. You can also print out the pages of these picture books. It’s a nice idea. Peter Reynolds has also done a number of short films.

I found this site by way of another excellent site about animation and illustration – Children’s Illustration. This is a relatively recent site started by Julie last September. Lots of interestings bits culled together in an attractive format. Pictured above, Julie.

- May I direct you to Hans Perk‘s site, A Film LA, in case you haven’t been there in the past two days. He’s posted lecture notes from the Disney Studio’s LO department, delivered by Phil Dike, about the cooperation between the LO department and the animator. Another deals with the basics of the Technicolor IB system and what goes into preparing for it. An fine bit of information.

This site has become enormously imortant to anyone really deeply involved in animation and its history.

Floyd Norman writes another entertaining and informative piece on Jim Hill Media. He talks about the details in the development and making of Toy Story 2. I look forward to Floyd’s articles and watch Jim Hill Media for it. (Although there are always many good articles on that site.

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