27.06.2007
Platform International Animation Festival
Portland, Oregon
28-29 June 2007
4pm

Thursday 28 June
4pm–5.30pm
Northwest Film Center: Whitsell Auditorium/Portland Art Museum

Panelists:
David Curtis (Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design)
Dryden Goodwin (Slade School of Fine Art)
Irene Kotlarz (Platform International Animation Festival)

Animate commissions innovative artists' animation for terrestrial television screening. It is a unique British project, the longest running creative collaboration between a broadcaster and national arts agency anywhere in the world. Over the past 17 years it has produced 90 films, among them some of the most remarkable works of British animation in that time. Supporting established filmmakers and industry mavericks alongside emerging talents and cross-disciplinary practitioners, it welcomes all forms of animated experimentation and especially hybrid approaches, seeking to support a manipulated moving-image practice that explodes any conventional definitions of what animation might be. Offering a generous retrospective over two programmes, Extending the Imagination aims to do just that, celebrating the myriad worlds and ways of seeing that only the animated realm can offer.

Programme One
Duration 70 minutes

Visions of childhood – light and dark – and childlike dreams of how things might be run through this award-winning selection that includes Rotting Artist and Who I Am and What I Want, with their savage and satirical explosion of everyday looking: Chris Shepherd’s disturbing and delirious take on an inner-city adolescence: Run Wrake’s remarkable fable of village England greed; and Tim Hope’s witty and delicate surreal tales. Couple these with a range of dazzling journeys in both place and purpose, taken in the company of 13’s lonely palm pilot hound, Flight’s solitary fugitive and the utopian scientific hopes of Exposure, Tulips at Dawn and Perpetual Motion, and you have a programme where detail and the dreams of distance coexist in inspirational equilibrium.

Rotting Artist, Ann Course & Paul Clark, 2002
Exposure, Peter Collis, 2003
13, Simon Faithfull, 2004
Rabbit, Run Wrake, 2005
Dad’s Dead, Chris Shepherd, 2002
Minema Cinema, Tim Hope, 2004
Flight, Dryden Goodwin, 2005
Tulips at Dawn, Rosie Pedlow, 2002
Perpetual Motion in the Land of Milk and Honey, AL and AL, 2004
Who I Am and What I Want, David Shrigley & Chris Shepherd, 2005


Friday 29 June
4pm–5.30pm
Northwest Film Center: Whitsell Auditorium/Portland Art Museum

Program Two
Duration 70 minutes

Hit the ground running with Gary Carpenter’s sensational surface trawl, continue the motion with Jonathan Hodgson’s hyper-sensitive city centre stroll, and enter the dreamscape of celebrity unpicked with Interstellar Stella. What we have here is a hypnotic road movie of the mind and (matters of the) heart, whether it’s how you pick up the pieces after Valentine’s Day in 15th February, or pick up the beat in Jukebox. Throw in a slice of time care of Ferment, a slice of very unusual life via Kingdom Protista and assorted moments of (im)patience and revelation in Hotel Central, Purple Grey and Proximity, and the questions raised by Scrutiny find perhaps their welcome answer in the end epiphanies of Sunset Strip.

Miles from Anywhere, Gary Carpenter, 1997
Feeling My Way, Jonathan Hodgson, 1997
Interstellar Stella, AL and AL, 2006
15th February, Tim Webb, 1995
Jukebox, Run Wrake, 1994
Ferment, Tim McMillan, 1999
Hotel Central, Matt Hulse, 2000
Kingdom Protista, Andrew Kötting, 2000
Purple Grey, Sebastian Buerkner, 2006
Scrutiny, Ian Cross, 1995
Proximity, Inger Lise Hansen, 2006
Sunset Strip, Kayla Parker, 1996


Screenings dedicated to the memory of Dick Arnall, Animation Producer and Director of Animate (2000-2006).