October 03, 2006

Cartoon Modern in Scotland

Projector Festival

I'm super-excited to announce that I'll be headed to Scotland for the Projector 2006 festival, which takes place next week from October 11-14. The festival takes place in Dundee, Scotland, about a one-hour drive north of Edinburgh. I'll be doing a "masterclass" about 50s design on Friday, October 13, and will also be presenting a couple different programs of rare 1950s animated shorts. If you're anywhere around the festival, these are screenings you're not going to want to miss. Even though I've personally seen all the films in the 50s programs, I'm anxious to attend the screenings myself because there's nothing quite like seeing amazing animation design projected via film onto the bigscreen, the way it was meant to be seen.

A full schedule of Projector events can be found at ProjectorFest.com. Festival director Susie Wilson has put together a strong slate of screenings and talks that also includes Chris Landreth of RYAN fame and sound designer Larry Sider, a frequent collaborator with the Brothers Quay. It promises to be a lot of fun. I'm also going to try and check out Edinburgh for a day or two. If there's any good animation sights to see over there, let me know at amid [at] animationblast [dot] com. Below are some of the shorts that I'll be screening at Projector:

50s design in Scotland


Posted by AMID at October 3, 2006 04:12 AM