The audio-visual artist Martin Blažíček is going to open his exhibition in Vitrína Deniska on Monday, 29 February. After the opening he is going to introduce together with Michal Zbořil his new cinematographic performance Binary Logic that was produced by PAF.
The Sunday programme will begin at 9:30am in the Film Auditorium with the screening of animated films by students from the universities UTB, FAMU and UMPRUM Short Animations for Kids 2. Adults as well as children will enjoy these films.
The 14th edition of PAF—Festival of Film Animation is starting today on Thursday December 3rd in Olomouc. Opening night of the festival will see a string of exhibition openings - beginning with The Unbearable Lightness of Nyau Cinema by the Malawi-born artists Samson Kambalu in the U Mloka Gallery. His Nyau films break down the stereotype of temporal and spatial experience with film: they intentionally move away from the western perception of time and deviate from the linearity of contemporary narrative film. This is the first exhibition of Samson Kambalu in the Czech Republic.
We are now announcing the members of the international jury of Other Visions 2015. Other visions is a Czech moving image competition.
Two new publications from the PAF Edition has been introduced to the book market – the extensive box of Svatopluk Pitra and the anthology of internet art #mm net art.
American film festival Sundance will introduce the work by Jonathan Monaghan (PAF 2015, Other Visions 2015 jury member). His digital animation Escape Pod (that can be remembered from PAF) will be seen as installation under the umbrella of New Frontier Sundance section.
The winner of the Other Visions 2015 competition is Janek Rous with his work The Sound from the Desert. He was awarded the main prize by the international jury, consisting of Samson Kambalu, Jonathan Monaghan, Daniela Arriado and Gabriel Florenz. The Special Jury Prize was given to Petra Lelláková and Vladimíra Večeřová for their video Marmotour. The Audience Award was won by Aleš Čermák and Michal Cáb for their video The Earth Trembles.
The Saturday programme will start at 9:30 am in the Film Auditorium with the five-episode series Garden that is based on the motives of the children’s book of the same name by the artist and illustrator Jiří Trnka. The magical illustrations from the mysterious world from behind the rusty gate were transformed into the series of short animated films by the director Břetislav Pojar, who is known for his animated series Hey, Mister, let’s play.
The vernissage exhibition of the finalists of the Other Vision’s competition “Differentiated Visions” took place in Atrium of Konvikt in Olomouc during the opening evening of PAF. The exhibition will be open for public until Sunday 6th of December.
The distinguished inbetweener and children book illustrator Edita Plicková (1940) worked in the Prague Studio of Animated and Puppet Film where she brought to life Zdeněk Miller’s tales about puppies, among others.
At PAF, she will lead a two-day animation workshop dedicated to inbetweening (drawing of individual frames) of characters in classical animated film. The workshop is intended for children older than 9, their older siblings, parents and grandparents.
