Chicago Hosts Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation
The Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation showcases abstract animation and unconventional character animation that is innovative, challenging and inspiring. Festival programs feature outstanding experimental animation of all sorts: classic films, new works, and rare masterpieces.
The Eyeworks programs showcase a range of animation techniques, including paper cutouts, stop-motion, computer animation, camera-less films, and a wide variety of hand-drawn methods. The content of the films is even more varied, and includes cosmic collages, psychedelic characters, surrealistic narratives, and pioneering work with computer animation.
The 2011 festival will feature animator Lori Damiano in person, who will present a program of her films, including a preview screening of Lord I: The Records Keeper. Other festival highlights include Joie de Vivre, an art nouveau fantasy ballet from 1936, and Cibernetik 5.3, an extremely rare psychedelic computer animation from the early 1960’s by John Stehura
Eyeworks celebrates animated moving images that express unusual vision, unusual approaches, and unusual style.
Festival directors: Lilli Carré and Alexander Stewart
Program One
Saturday, November 5, 3:00 pm
80 minutes
Robert Breer – LMNO 9:30, 1978
Zeitguised – Peripetics 3:20, 2009
Max Hattler – AANAATT 4:45, 2010
Bill Porter – On Time Off 4:21, 2008
Thorsten Fleisch – Kosmos 5:30, 2004
Mike Maryniuk – Tattoo Step 1:11, 2008
Barry Spinello – Soundtrack 10:00, 1969
James Otis – Jacob’s Ladder 4:00, 1981
Ed Ackerman – Primiti Too Taa 3:00, 1986
Atsushi Wada – In A Pig’s Eye 10:00, 2010
Lei Lei – Magic Cube and Ping-Pong 4:04, 2009
Niki Lindroth von Bahr – Tord and Tord 10:44, 2010
Peter Larsson – Seven Days in the Woods 6:00, 2010
Anthony Gross and Hector Hoppin – Joie de Vivre 9:00, 1936
Program Two: Festival Guest Lori Damiano
Saturday, November 5, 6:00 pm
Portland animator Lori Damiano will present a program of her work, including a special preview screening of her hand-drawn animation “Lord I: The Records Keeper.” Lori D’s highly energetic animations and illustrations have a distinctive graphic style and charm, and she has done work for a wide range of clients, including Yo Gabba Gabba, Girl Skateboard Co., and Bonnie Prince Billy. She earned an MFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts, and is the Animation Department Chair at the California State Summer School for the Arts. She writes a monthly column in The Skateboard Mag called “The Learnings of,” and works with the Independent Publishing Resource Center in Portland.
www.lori-d.com
Program Three
Sunday, November 6, 1:00 pm
65 minutes
Len Lye – Tusalava 10:00, 1929
Takashi Ito – Thunder 5:00, 1985
Eric Patrick – Ablution 13:00, 2001
Gary Beydler – Glass Face 3:00, 1975
Jesse McManus – Macavity 3:00, 2011
Bendik Kaltenborn – The End 10:00, 2008
Eric Dyer – The Bellows March 5:30, 2009
John Stehura – Cibernetik 5.3 8:00, 1961-65
Paul Bush – While Darwin Sleeps 5:00, 2004
Johan Rijpma – Tape Generations 2:30, 2011
Program Four
Sunday, November 6, 3:30 pm
70 minutes
Paul Rayment – Piano 2:00, 2010
Josh Bonnetta – First Snow 2:00, 2004
Larry Jordan – Solar Sight 15:00, 2011
Scott Wolniak – Work Movie 2:40, 2001
Laura Heit – The Deep Dark 7:07, 2011
Takashi Sawa – Mathematica 8:00, 2000
Priit and Olga Pärn – Divers in the Rain 24:00, 2010
Nicolas Mahler – Mystery Music 5:00, 2009
Dalibor Baric – Pain so light that it appears as tickle 4:05, 2010
Looping program
Playing on monitors on view in the theater lobby throughout the festival
Julie Doucet – I Need An Escape Plan
Phenakistoscopes by Florent Ruppert and Jerome Mulot