...a new screening series called Animation Speak/Easy, an interactive, in-person event where three guest speakers each share an animated short that inspires them, followed by a lively audience discussion. After two years of isolation, we want to create a space that brings together curious, inspired artmakers who are passionate about animation and its constantly changing forms.
We’re headed back to Rullo’s Brooklyn on Thursday, September 18th to kick off our 4th season of shows. Join us to celebrate the last days of summer with our fabulous guests at Animation Speak/Easy Vol. 16!
Thurs. Sept. 18, Doors @7:00pm, Screening 7:30-9:00pm
Rullo’s Bar @ 560 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215
**No cover.
Jeff Scher is an educator, painter and Emmy Award winning animator. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Harvard Film Archives, The Pompidou Center and the Austrian National Film Archive.
He has created work for The New York Times, The New Yorker Magazine, IFC, HBO, PBS, the Sundance Channel, and has also made numerous music videos for Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Graham Nash, Joan Baez, Tom Petty and others. Jeff teaches animation at N.Y.U. Tisch School of the Arts.
Jeff's Vimeo-page
Caroline Voagen Nelson is a media artist that makes work with a collaged, atmospheric aesthetic that brings to life moments from history, mythology, and memory. She deconstructs and rebuilds archives and environments to create surreal recollections of the past in the moving image form. Her animations can be found as sculptures (media vessels), site-specific installations, and mixed-media films. She is a NYFA Artist Fellow in Video/Film and has been an artist-in-residence at MASS MoCA and Munson art museums. Her animated shorts have screened at film festivals including Ann Arbor Film Festival, Florida Film Festival, Animasivo el Festival in Mexico City, and Tricky Women at Filmarchiv Austria. Nelson has a background as a photo/video journalist with her prior work featured in numerous publications including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Art News Magazine, and Time Out NY. She has worked on animations for CNN, MTV and Vox. She co-founded production company, CUPALOY Studio, which specializes in mixed media animation and production design for film.
www.cvoagen.com
Michaela Olsen is an Emmy Award-winning animation director and the Executive Creative Director and co-owner of Mighty Oak, a women and queer-owned animation studio based in NYC. Michaela’s creative direction encompasses work for brands and networks like Netflix, HBO, Amazon Studios, Adult Swim, and The New York Times. Her expertise encompasses a wide array of animation techniques, live action, and motion graphics, with a strong affinity for handmade mixed media and stop-motion animation. In addition to receiving an Emmy nomination for her graphic direction on Netflix’s The Principles of Pleasure, Michaela was recently honored with a motion design Emmy for her role as animation director on Octopus!, featuring Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Her short film, Under Covers, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and she has been featured in Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film" as well as Fast Company’s list of "Most Creative People in Business."
www.mightyoakgrows.com
Congratulations for this great first event to bring together the animation community. I loved that you choose three artists from different backgrounds and interests. It made for surprising discoveries! Also the discussion was well prepared and really made it particularly interesting...
It was exhilarating and I’m so thankful for the chance to share something I’m passionate about with others, as well as be included with two amazing animators I had never had the pleasure of meeting before...
Such a treat to go in depth (if ever so briefly) on the pieces that were picked, get to hear why and see how they resonated with other people there. And really just so swell to be around live humans in real space and time talking the walk and walking the talk.
Andy London is a graphic novelist, director and animator. Since the mid nineties, he’s been writing graphic novels and making independent animated shorts. In addition to making films and comics, Andy runs an animation program at Hostos Community College in New York City and is a Visiting Lecturer in the AFVS Department of Harvard University. He is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
www.letitfallapart.com
Anna Samo was born in Moscow, Russia, lived and studied animation in Berlin, Germany and is currently based in Brooklyn. As an independent filmmaker she uses a variety of analog animation techniques to create emotional and poetic work. Her most recent films OBON, The Opposites Game and Conversations with a Whale and The Wild-Tempered Clavier have been screened and awarded at film festivals around the world.
www.samo-animation.com
Lisa LaBracio is a freelance animation director who specializes in handmade animation techniques. As part of the founding production team at TED-Ed, Lisa has directed dozens of educational shorts in a variety of styles, and as an educator, has taught 100+ animation workshops to communities all over the world. Lisa is based in Brooklyn, where you can find her mediating an argument between her stop motion studio and her plant children regarding how much sunlight to allow into the home studio.
www.lisalabra.com
