Record twenty films have been nominated for the Oscar for the best Animated Feature Film this year. You will have the opportunity to see five of them at this year's PAF. It is Mary and Max (Australia), A Town Called Panic (Belgium, France, Luxembourg), Up (USA), 9 (USA), and The Secret of Kells (Ireland, France, Belgium)
Simon Bogojević Narath, the art director of the progressive Bonobo studio from Zagreb that is engaged in production and distribution of animated and experimental films, will be one of the representatives of contemporary Croatian animation. The studio was founded in 2008 after the end of the Kenges studio that had successfully functioned in this field for almost ten years.
Organisator of PAF, the non-government organisation PASTICHE FILMZ, is a patron of film program of several autumn evenings in the open area of La Fabrika in Prague. Petr Vlček, member of the organisation, who cooperates with Polish film institutions and festivals in long term, has formed a representative selection of contemporary Polish animation.
Mia Makela aka SOLU is another confirmed guest of our festival. She is a Finnish pedagogue, curator, and artist specialized in media and so-called Live Cinema (simultaneous creation of sound and image in real time), whose work has been characterized as „dark visual delirium" and „digital version of William Blake's poetry".
Ivan Ladislav Galeta, the Croatian filmmaker, performer, experimentalist, and pedagogue, will be one of the main guests of this year's Festival of Film Animation. Although his name is quite unknown in our country, he is a crucial figure in the history of animation and generally the film art, which is evidenced by his work being displayed in prestigious cultural institutions, e.g. in the Centre Pompidou in Paris, where he has five films.
Contemporary animation, Zlín Exhibition Object of animation. Third sense. The Regional Visual Art Gallery in Zlín, 30th September – 15th November 2009
Concept: F. Cenek, J. Havlíček, M. Mazanec
Authors: F. Cenek & J. Havlíček, M. Kohout, R. Přikryl, P. Sceranková, P. Strouhal, J. Šrámek, V. Takáč, M. Vančát, V. Vaněk, J. Žalio
The opening is on Tuesday, 29th September, at 5 p.m.
One of the confirmed exclusive guests of this year's Festival of Film Animation (10th – 13th December) will be the Austrian visual artist and experimental filmmaker Martin Arnold. He has become famous especially for his work with so called found footage and fragments of classical Hollywood genre films, in which he reveals unthought images that are normally hidden, thanks to additional editing. Arnold changes e.g. shots of family idyl into a fighting scene, uncovers erotic subtext or hidden sources of aggression.
