The Prague Centre for Contemporary Art DOX hosted the presentation of the Festival of Film Animation and the Other Visions competition.
The judges, Ivan Ladislav Galeta, Mia Makela and Martin Arnold, chose their favourite ones from the ten audiovisual works that the visitors had the opportunity to see during the whole Festival of Film Animation at the Attic Gallery of the Art Centre, Palacký University, Konvikt.
The eight year of the Festival of Film Animation in Olomouc has been underway since yesterday. The visitors were welcomed by programme managers of individual sections as well as by the director of the festival Alexandr Jančík at the opening ceremony at the Atrium (Art Center of the Palacký University, Konvikt).
2 December was the unofficial beginning of the 8th year of the Festival of Film Animation Olomouc 2009. Since then the exhibition hall of the Gallery U Mloka has been hosting a vernissage called Two Cups of Tea, which presents the production of comics of the Prague artist and scenographer TOY_BOX
The artist Michal Pěchouček presented twice his selection of contemporary Czech video during the past years of the festival. This time he comes back within the Aport Animation section to christen his DVDPater Noster Video Stories. It is a video-monography, symbolizing in a certain way the closure of several phases of video production of this artist.
The closing ceremony of PAF 2009 took place on Sunday evening in the Theatre (Art Centre, Palacký University, Konvikt) during which event the winners of this year's OTHER VISIONS competition were announced.
On Saturday at 5 p.m., the visitors of the Film Auditorium had the opportunity to watch a series of videos of this year's PAF Cult, the Croatian renaissance artist and pedagogue, Ivan Ladislav Galeta.
A lecture of the Austrian theoretician Franziska Bruckner, focusing on animated film, will take place at 2 p.m. at the Film Auditorium. She will introduce the visitors the methods and approaches of the avantgarde towards animation.
During the whole Festival of Film Animation the visitors will have the opportunity to see an interactive installation SWING(1) of the audiovisual artist Martin Blažíček at the Centre of Arts of the Palacký University at Konvikt.
While so-called mocap (motion capture) is a useful assistant within the sphere of computer games, military or science, it still arouses inconsistent reactions within the context of animated film, and many theoreticians (including audience) still cannot accept this technology. Is it really such a controversal matter?
The attempt to describe and notionally separate visual context of club scene is the ambition of this year's "accompanying programme" within the framework of Live Animation section. You will have the opportunity to attend several concerts: 1A2V1, Pjoni & Ink Midget + tvprodukt, Kazety, and Like She. Historically first experimental VJ forum will take place at the very noon of the festival's Sunday.
