The Art House Convergence is taking theatrical exhibition and distribution to the next level. The Ahc members’ e-letter recently had a most interesting view of programming for shorts. I believe “The Animation Show of Shows” offers the very first look at the likely Oscar-nominated animated shorts - before anyone else gets to see them.
Carlos Aguilar, SydneysBuzz correspondent reviewed them here .
The letters about this reveal their point of origination:
Dear Ahc,
I am pleased to present a new animation compilation called “The Animation Show Of Shows”.
This compilation is a blessed return to the varied and sophisticated animator's art that was new and popular 30 years ago.
The compilation is curated by Ron Diamond who is a recognized expert in international animation. Ron has presented “The Animation Show of Shows” annually for 16 years to animation students and professionals from the top studios. The 162 shorts that Ron has curated include 14 Academy Award® winners, as well as 37 nominees, and other films that have won major prizes at Cannes, Annecy, Zagreb, Ottawa, and Berlin. Ron shows his compilation annually in the 6,500 seat theater at Comi-Con. This work has been a labor of love for Ron. He wants the world to love and understand the artistry and power of the animated short film.
For the first time ever, The 17th Annual Animation Show of Shows will play publicly in cinemas across the U.S.
This film was a huge Kickstarter success - far exceeding the original ask. Animation fans are rabid fans and will come out to see these shorts in force.
We premiered in L.A. on Sept. 24 at The Arclight, Hollywood.
Ron has asked me to go to all of the indie theaters first for this compilation, so that they'll have their chance at the huge grosses that these shorts can bring in.
Please let me know if we you would like more information.
Thanks,
Susanne
Take a look at a sampling of some of the shorts that await in the full program: Here
Gary Meyer wrote:
Finally a chance for a really high quality animation show again. Ron was part of the team that created the Tournee of Animation and Animation Celebrations shows we packaged during the 70-s-90s [with Terry Thoren]. He works with the world's best animators and has been taking a package around for private screenings for animators for several years. He has finally decided to bring a new show to rest of us. Between the shorts are brief interviews with some of the animators...sort of like DVD extras on the big screen.
If you do well with the Oscar animated shorts this should be at least as good at the polar opposite tie of the year.
And you know it won’t be playing at the multiplex down the road.
Susanne added:
I'm delighted to share with you that we have had a very positive response to the “The 17th Annual Animation Show of Shows”. Those programmers and the press who have seen it have been enchanted by this feature presentation of 11 curated international animated short films.
Since I mentioned the Oscars, it might also be reassuring to some to know that all of the press and promotional materials for this program have been submitted to The Academy and that they have been approved as acceptable.
Carlos Aguilar, SydneysBuzz correspondent reviewed them here .
The letters about this reveal their point of origination:
Dear Ahc,
I am pleased to present a new animation compilation called “The Animation Show Of Shows”.
This compilation is a blessed return to the varied and sophisticated animator's art that was new and popular 30 years ago.
The compilation is curated by Ron Diamond who is a recognized expert in international animation. Ron has presented “The Animation Show of Shows” annually for 16 years to animation students and professionals from the top studios. The 162 shorts that Ron has curated include 14 Academy Award® winners, as well as 37 nominees, and other films that have won major prizes at Cannes, Annecy, Zagreb, Ottawa, and Berlin. Ron shows his compilation annually in the 6,500 seat theater at Comi-Con. This work has been a labor of love for Ron. He wants the world to love and understand the artistry and power of the animated short film.
For the first time ever, The 17th Annual Animation Show of Shows will play publicly in cinemas across the U.S.
This film was a huge Kickstarter success - far exceeding the original ask. Animation fans are rabid fans and will come out to see these shorts in force.
We premiered in L.A. on Sept. 24 at The Arclight, Hollywood.
Ron has asked me to go to all of the indie theaters first for this compilation, so that they'll have their chance at the huge grosses that these shorts can bring in.
Please let me know if we you would like more information.
Thanks,
Susanne
Take a look at a sampling of some of the shorts that await in the full program: Here
Gary Meyer wrote:
Finally a chance for a really high quality animation show again. Ron was part of the team that created the Tournee of Animation and Animation Celebrations shows we packaged during the 70-s-90s [with Terry Thoren]. He works with the world's best animators and has been taking a package around for private screenings for animators for several years. He has finally decided to bring a new show to rest of us. Between the shorts are brief interviews with some of the animators...sort of like DVD extras on the big screen.
If you do well with the Oscar animated shorts this should be at least as good at the polar opposite tie of the year.
And you know it won’t be playing at the multiplex down the road.
Susanne added:
I'm delighted to share with you that we have had a very positive response to the “The 17th Annual Animation Show of Shows”. Those programmers and the press who have seen it have been enchanted by this feature presentation of 11 curated international animated short films.
Since I mentioned the Oscars, it might also be reassuring to some to know that all of the press and promotional materials for this program have been submitted to The Academy and that they have been approved as acceptable.
- 9/30/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
It's always fun when outside filmmakers and artists jump on board The Simpsons train to create the opening couch gage. Some of those people have included Bansky and Guillermo del Toro. This time producers brought in Oscar-nominated animator Don Hertzfeldt to give us the couch gag for last night's season premiere, and holy crap… it is insanely kooky. If you're familiar with Hertfeldt's work, then you won't be surprised with what you're about to see. If you aren't familiar, prepare yourselves for really weird ride. I also included one of the animator's previous works below called The Animation Show.
- 9/29/2014
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
I first came to know animator Don Hertzfeldt through his Oscar-nominated "Rejected", a collection of animated shorts he created for commercials and television network interstitials for the Family Learning Channel, all of which were, to no surprise, rejected. My favorite of the bunch (which you can watch at the bottom of this post) is the very first one in which a character screams "My spoon is too big!" before he's joined by a talking banana. No, it doesn't make any sense, but that's exactly what I love about it. Now, "The Simpsons" have opened the door to Hertzfeldt to take over their "couch gag" scenario that plays at the beginning of each episode just as they did with Banksy (watch here), Sylvain Chomet and Guillermo del Toro (watch here) recently. To no surprise it is completely batsh*t insane, but I'm largely posting it so you can watch the "My spoon is too big" piece,...
- 9/29/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Geek Girl Navigating the World – A Thief Worth Saving
It’s never been any secret that I am a total animation geek. I can’t pinpoint the exact moment when I realized how much I enjoyed animation, or even that point at which I started to understand that someone had to draw all of the stuff that I was seeing on the screen. When I was little, on Saturday mornings my dad and I would sit on the couch with big bowls of cereal and watch Looney Tunes before he went in to work.
At some point, I started to realize that there were differences in animation, not just in quality but in writing, just as I was recognizing those same differences in the books that I was reading. The Looney Tunes cartoons had a frenetic, rapid-cut style with precision editing to the accompanying music that made the shorts so...
It’s never been any secret that I am a total animation geek. I can’t pinpoint the exact moment when I realized how much I enjoyed animation, or even that point at which I started to understand that someone had to draw all of the stuff that I was seeing on the screen. When I was little, on Saturday mornings my dad and I would sit on the couch with big bowls of cereal and watch Looney Tunes before he went in to work.
At some point, I started to realize that there were differences in animation, not just in quality but in writing, just as I was recognizing those same differences in the books that I was reading. The Looney Tunes cartoons had a frenetic, rapid-cut style with precision editing to the accompanying music that made the shorts so...
- 9/29/2011
- by dragonwomant
- Boomtron
Don't: hate your staff. Do: cast Iggy Pop. Persepolis director Marjane Satrapi offers up a masterclass in comic-book movie adaptation
1. First things first
The first thing to remember is that it's not a graphic novel, it's a comic. People are so afraid to say the word "comic". It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to "graphic novel" and that disappears. No: it's all comics. Movies are all movies. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Orson Welles: one is shit, the other isn't. But they're all movies.
2. Find your material
The most exciting time is when I think of an idea and how I imagine I can make it. It would be wonderful if there was a projector inside my eye that and it could just put the idea on the screen for people to see. But then, even if there was the software,...
1. First things first
The first thing to remember is that it's not a graphic novel, it's a comic. People are so afraid to say the word "comic". It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to "graphic novel" and that disappears. No: it's all comics. Movies are all movies. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Orson Welles: one is shit, the other isn't. But they're all movies.
2. Find your material
The most exciting time is when I think of an idea and how I imagine I can make it. It would be wonderful if there was a projector inside my eye that and it could just put the idea on the screen for people to see. But then, even if there was the software,...
- 6/17/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Why Watch? It’s absolutely, stunningly, brain-meltingly brilliant. The animation is strange and beautiful, the concept is strange and unnerving, and the underlying subtext is a dangerous one. CGI figures in an unnamed army use stop-motion and death to create a movie projection ballet. Weirdness and creative genius abound here in one of the best shorts ever featured on The Animation Show. What Will It Cost? Just six minutes of your time. Does it get better any better than that? Check out Fallen Art for yourself: Fallen Art (2005) Directed By: Tomek Baginski Trust us. You have time for more short films.
- 3/16/2011
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
[1] On November 19th, I had the opportunity to participate in a day of roundtable interviews with the cast and crew of Tron Legacy. I also conducted a couple of one-on-one discussions with the filmmakers and screenwriters (but that will come later).The plan is to post one of the interviews every day up until release. We've previously posted interviews with Olivia Wilde [2] and Garrett Hedlund [3].Today we bring you a grouped interview with screenwriters Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis, and producer Justin Springer. You'll notice that Horowitz and Kitsis are the type of writing team that complete each others sentences and are constantly improvising new angles and ways to pitch their material. After the jump you can read the transcript of that roundtable interview. Question: So did you see it for the first time yesterday? Edward Kitsis: We've seen it in various stages along the way but yesterday was...
- 12/14/2010
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
By Alison Willmore
The Oscar category of animated short film doesn't tend to get a lot of attention, but in 2001 it was host to one of the most unlikely and awesome nominations in recent Academy Award history. Alongside a tasteful watercolor-based work about a father and daughter and a stop-motion drama set in plague-era Europe was Don Hertzfeldt's "Rejected," a profane, hilarious and brilliantly absurd short filled with non sequitur-spouting stick figures and fluffy creatures bleeding from lower orifices, one that imagined an animator driven mad by his hopeless attempts to please corporate sponsors. The film didn't win, but did fuel a devoted fan base that's followed Hertzfeldt in his staunchly independent career of crafting totally distinctive animated shorts that have grown in ambition and sophistication even as he's continued to hand-draw his work and avoid computer influence. His last title, "Everything Will Be Ok," won the short film...
The Oscar category of animated short film doesn't tend to get a lot of attention, but in 2001 it was host to one of the most unlikely and awesome nominations in recent Academy Award history. Alongside a tasteful watercolor-based work about a father and daughter and a stop-motion drama set in plague-era Europe was Don Hertzfeldt's "Rejected," a profane, hilarious and brilliantly absurd short filled with non sequitur-spouting stick figures and fluffy creatures bleeding from lower orifices, one that imagined an animator driven mad by his hopeless attempts to please corporate sponsors. The film didn't win, but did fuel a devoted fan base that's followed Hertzfeldt in his staunchly independent career of crafting totally distinctive animated shorts that have grown in ambition and sophistication even as he's continued to hand-draw his work and avoid computer influence. His last title, "Everything Will Be Ok," won the short film...
- 10/6/2008
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
2008 is an exceptionally good year for The Animation Show, the traveling short-features tourney now curated solely by King Of The Hill/Beavis And Butt-head mastermind Mike Judge. The only problem is that it makes its 2007 program, now on DVD as The Animation Show Volume 3, look weak by comparison. The currently touring Animation Show 4 features several advanced works by animators still working out their kinks as of Volume 3. The new show also focuses on short, snappy, clever pieces; the latest DVD, by contrast, is more about longer works that showcase animation's incredible range, but disappoint in terms of coherent story. Volume 3 does have some distinct winners: Run Wrake's "Rabbit" is a terrifically creepy morality tale about two greedy children and a magical idol, told in a style reminiscent of an old Fun With Dick And Jane book. Bill Plympton contributes two shorts, but his eerie...
- 6/4/2008
- by Tasha Robinson
- avclub.com
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