San Francisco State University
October 6 - 9, 1994
 
Join an international gathering of animation historians and theorists at San
Francisco State University for screenings, paper presentations and activities
related to animation in its many forms.
 
Featured presenters include:
LAURA KNIGHT (UK), "New British Documentary: Zoetrope Artists"
MIKHAIL GUREVICH (Russia), "Literary Poetics and Animation Stylistics"
WILLIAM MORITZ (USA), "Narrative Strategies in Borowczyk/Lenica's _Home_,
Pritt Parn's _Le Dejeuner sur L'Herbe and Yuri Norstein's _Tale of Tales_"
EDWIN CARELS (Belgium), "Aesthetic Principles in the Work of the Brothers
Quay"
ROGER PALMER (Australia), "Cultural Difference in Reading American Animation
Down Under"
KAJ PINDAL (Denmark/Canada), "Integration of Innovative Techniques with
Social Information Animation"
LESLIE SHARMAN (UK), "The Animated Spectator: Animation, Audiences & Cultural
Studies"
GIANNALBERTO BENDAZZI (Italy), "The Pencil, the Screen and the Pleasure"
and MANY, MANY more, speaking on panels focusing on
- Institutions and Industry
- Hollywood and Politics
- Early History and Authorship
- Race and Gender Issues
 
SCREENINGS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS include
- selections from the ASIFA-Italy collection
- Siggraph '94 Art and Design
- Jiri Trnka Masterworks
- English Animated Documentary
- Treasures from Shanghai
- John Lasseter and Henry Selick on "Bay Area Artists in Disney Features"
- British Arts Council Retrospective
- Workshop on Teaching Animation
- David Anderson on "The Contemporary British Scene"
- Jiri Trnka: Early Cel and Puppet Work
- Sara Petty and Larry Cuba on"Two Sides of Bay Area Abstraction"
- an ongoing "Animation Creation Project" co-ordinated by Ruth Hayes and Gary
Schwartz
 
For information, call Martin McNamara, Conference Director, tel:
415-337-7079, fax: 415-337-7060.
 
If you have difficulty getting information, you may also contact me, Maureen
Furniss, at [log in to unmask]