This week Platform International Animation Festival takes over Portland. Next Friday June 29th, they take over the 5th & Couch corner with events and parties at the Portland Art Center, Ground Kontrol, Backspace, Someday, etc… With their blessing, Floating World Comics has teamed with Psilo Design to curate our very own animaton festival!
Local and lo-fi, international and extrasensory, hand drawn, stop motion, cgi and puppetry, electricity and torches. Influential animator Joanna Priestly, comic creators Lilli Carre, Max Andersson, Graham Annable, Paper Rad, Dearraindrop. Award winning shorts from Howie Shia, Rob Chiu, and Guilherme Marcondes.
In addition to the 100 minute program I put together, the show will also feature a special 30 minute section curated by e*rock, a halftime performance by Hooliganship, and a 30 minute retrospective on 70’s animator/special effects innovator Adam Beckett.
Extra special thanks to our licensed volunteers, 5th Ave Cinemas for the projector, Jacques (Night Gallery) for the speakers, New Deal for the vodka, and Pabst for the blue ribbon. 21+
THE PROGRAM (last minute additions tba):
7PM – “FLOATING WORLD ANIMATION FESTIVAL”
- Joanna Priestly – “VOICE”
- Ola – “MICHAEL JACKSON’S FIVE”
- Christophe Blanc – “FRONTON”
- Luke Holden, Sam Liberto, Carolyn Main – “OPERATION AWARENESS”
- Howie Shia – “FLUTTER”
- Max Hattler – “EVERYTHING TURNS”
- Christophe Blanc – “ARRACHENEZ”
- Mariola Brillowska – “PORNO KARAOKE INTERNATIONAL”
- Aidan Koch – “LIQUID MAGIC”
- William O’Brien – “WHEN YOUR HEART IS ON FIRE, SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES”
- Mariana Abasolo – “RIGHT WRONG OR DON’T KNOW”
- Bruno Dicolla – “SCOOTER & JINX”
- Rafael Coutinho – “AQUELE CARA”
- Lilli Carre – “WHAT HITS THE MOON”
- Graham Annable – “SPACE WOLF”
- Zane Kozak – “GRE GRE”
- Tripper Dungan III – “ASTRO PROJECT”
- Rob Chiu – “BLACK DAY TO FREEDOM”
- Stefan JH Van Dinther – “ALLOW TO INFUSE”
- Vivian Wong – “KILL JOHN WAYNE”
- Aidan Koch – “THE TREACHERY”
- Christophe Blanc – “PORK DAMAGE 2″
- Max Andersson – “NO COMMENT”
- Max Hattler – “NACHTMASCHINE”
- Guilherme Marcondes – “TYGER”
- Max Andersson – “100 YEARS”
8:45 PM – “ADAM BECKETT RETROSPECTIVE”
Flesh Flows (1974)
“Intricate animated line drawings, erotic and surreal, are transformed during three chapters from their base existence at the beginning into a continuous flight through a space filled with luminous clouds of flowing purple and turquoise gases. Hence we are shown a path from the carnal to the cosmic.”
Kitsch in Synch (1975)
“This is an abstract animation that seems to get laughs. The soundtrack is why, mainly; it sounds like a large group of demented ducks enthusiastically and persistently seeking oneness with the all, via energetic chanting. BUBUBABU!!! The imagery is elaborate, brightly colored, and every single damned beat in the soundtrack has its own little bump.”
Adam’s work was ground-breaking at the time – 1970-1975. His personal work was side-tracked when he entered the film effects industry. He was hired as the head of animation and rotoscoping on the first Star Wars. He left
three films unfinished at his untimely death in 1979, not quite two years after the theater release of Star Wars.
For more info on Beckett and The iotaCenter’s project see http://www.iotacenter.org/projects/beckett.
9:15 – HOOLIGANSHIP LIVE PERFORMANCE
9:45 – e*rock
- Mumbleboy & e*rock – “SUPER HEROES”
- Paper Rad – “COOL SONG”
- ghxyk2 – “MY ZAZA”
- Matt Lock – “BURNOUT”
- Nate Boyce – “SCEPTER QUEST”
- Jeff Kriksciun – “UNTITLED”
- Shobo Shobo – “POLOPO”
- Famicom Group – “BART THE GENERAL PT. 1″
- Michael Bell-Smith – “WHILE WE SLEPT”
- e*rock – “DAY-GLO SUPERNOVA (excerpt)”
Watch the trailer.