Plastic Paper is a festival of animation and puppet films that will run at the Park Theatre in Winnipeg, Canada on May 5-8 and is presented by the Big Smash! Film Collective. The program, listed below, includes short films, features, documentaries, installations and special events.
The feature films include Rocaterrania, Brett Ingram’s documentary on scientific illustrator and secret fantasy artist Renaldo Kuhler; 2010 Oscar nominated film The Secret of Kells; the little seen 1982 environmental and animal activist film The Plague Dogs; a new surreal work by underground animator Bruce Bickford; and more.
For special events, there will be a continuously-running video installation by Winnipeg animator Leslie Supnet called How to Care for Introverts; a one-day Master Class taught by the legendary Bill Plympton; a Saturday morning cartoon feast; a T-shirt making class; and more.
Below is the full lineup of all the films screening at Plastic Paper, but for more info on them,...
The feature films include Rocaterrania, Brett Ingram’s documentary on scientific illustrator and secret fantasy artist Renaldo Kuhler; 2010 Oscar nominated film The Secret of Kells; the little seen 1982 environmental and animal activist film The Plague Dogs; a new surreal work by underground animator Bruce Bickford; and more.
For special events, there will be a continuously-running video installation by Winnipeg animator Leslie Supnet called How to Care for Introverts; a one-day Master Class taught by the legendary Bill Plympton; a Saturday morning cartoon feast; a T-shirt making class; and more.
Below is the full lineup of all the films screening at Plastic Paper, but for more info on them,...
- 5/1/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
How do you create a kick ass trailer for an animation festival? By having two of your invited animators make them, of course.
Winnipeg's Plastic Paper is just around the corner and the festival has just released a pair of trailers for the event cut together by Clint Enns and Leslie Supnet. They aim to inspire lust amongst animation junkies. They succeed.
Plastic Paper: Winnipeg's Festival Of Animated, Illustrated + Puppet Film is an international festival that takes place May 5-8, 2010 at the Park Theatre in Winnipeg, Canada. The festival is one component of the year-round organizational activities of the Big Smash! Film Collective. Plastic Paper's programming is a mix of premieres, retrospective screenings, short films and features with special guests, workshops, multi-media presentations, installations and exhibits, artist talks, and gatherings where the artists and the audience can interact more informally.
Confirmed special guests for Plastic Paper 2010 include Oscar-nominated animator Bill Plympton,...
Winnipeg's Plastic Paper is just around the corner and the festival has just released a pair of trailers for the event cut together by Clint Enns and Leslie Supnet. They aim to inspire lust amongst animation junkies. They succeed.
Plastic Paper: Winnipeg's Festival Of Animated, Illustrated + Puppet Film is an international festival that takes place May 5-8, 2010 at the Park Theatre in Winnipeg, Canada. The festival is one component of the year-round organizational activities of the Big Smash! Film Collective. Plastic Paper's programming is a mix of premieres, retrospective screenings, short films and features with special guests, workshops, multi-media presentations, installations and exhibits, artist talks, and gatherings where the artists and the audience can interact more informally.
Confirmed special guests for Plastic Paper 2010 include Oscar-nominated animator Bill Plympton,...
- 4/20/2010
- Screen Anarchy
We'll let this one speak for itself:
Plastic Paper: Winnipeg's Festival Of Animated, Illustrated + Puppet Film is an international festival that takes place May 5-8, 2010 at the Park Theatre in Winnipeg, Canada. The festival is one component of the year-round organizational activities of the Big Smash! Film Collective. Plastic Paper's programming is a mix of premieres, retrospective screenings, short films and features with special guests, workshops, multi-media presentations, installations and exhibits, artist talks, and gatherings where the artists and the audience can interact more informally.
Confirmed special guests for Plastic Paper 2010 include Oscar-nominated animator Bill Plympton, who will be presenting an animation master class, and puppeteer and curator Heather Henson (daughter Jim Henson), who will be premiering a new "best of" selection of her ongoing Handmade Puppet Dreams series of independent puppet films. Toronto-based curator Naomi Hocura will be appearing in person to present Seconds Under The Sun, an amazing...
Plastic Paper: Winnipeg's Festival Of Animated, Illustrated + Puppet Film is an international festival that takes place May 5-8, 2010 at the Park Theatre in Winnipeg, Canada. The festival is one component of the year-round organizational activities of the Big Smash! Film Collective. Plastic Paper's programming is a mix of premieres, retrospective screenings, short films and features with special guests, workshops, multi-media presentations, installations and exhibits, artist talks, and gatherings where the artists and the audience can interact more informally.
Confirmed special guests for Plastic Paper 2010 include Oscar-nominated animator Bill Plympton, who will be presenting an animation master class, and puppeteer and curator Heather Henson (daughter Jim Henson), who will be premiering a new "best of" selection of her ongoing Handmade Puppet Dreams series of independent puppet films. Toronto-based curator Naomi Hocura will be appearing in person to present Seconds Under The Sun, an amazing...
- 4/4/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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