SEAT gets a gallery show!

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Feb 072013
 

SEAT has been awarded a one month gallery show from the 4Culture gallery:

http://www.4culture.org/2013/02/gallery4culture-artists-selected/

It will be sometime between September 2013 and August 2014. Here is the blurb about our show: “Seattle Experimental Animation Team is a collective of local animators who collaborate on projects both within the film-making and visual arts communities. The intent of their installation-based projects is to stretch the limits of animation and widen its audience. SEAT artists include Salise Hughes, Webster Crowell, Stefan Gruber, Tess Martin and Timothy Firth, among others.”

It will be exciting to build on our first gallery show experience, the one month show we did at the Gage Academy in August 2012.

Otto Bulut – Wallrus project

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Jan 262013
 

Photo courtesy of Otto Bulut

Otto Bulut is the latest SEAT, Seattle Experimental Animation Team, artist to utilize the Red Wall for a stop-motion animation film project. As part of SEAT’s residency, each artist is allotted 6-months of wall time to develop their project. Some insights into the process from Otto:

“The shoot at the wall was a great experience and was a first for me in a couple of ways.  It was my first time directing a crew on a live shoot and my first time doing pixelation (stop-motion with human models).  My expertise is in 2D puppet animation (shadow puppets and paper doll) and 2D computer animation (Flash, After Effects) and I have rarely had the opportunity to work with a crew.

The shoot went surprisingly smoothly.  I came in knowing what I wanted to get on film but not having a technical plan on how to execute it.  Seven members of S.E.A.T. showed up and worked it out with me, quickly coming up with a plan on how to get my vision captured.  I felt like our collective experience really came together to make it a fun learning experience.
I am also so very grateful to the members of the community that came out to lend a hand.  The five of them were so patient and good-natured during the slow and demanding process of animation.
This experience gave me much inspiration to finish the project which is a music video for Saskia Delores, the rest of which will mostly be stop-motion with painted 2D puppets. As an added benefit, it made me excited to work with teams and live shoots in the future, directions I have long wanted to explore.”

Inter-Action program screening in Montreal!

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Jan 112013
 

Drew_Christie_MWSTMWSL_smallLast year animator Tess Martin curated a program of 12 animated shorts from Seattle called Inter-Action. It’s since screened in Seattle, Portland, New York, and she went on tour with it to 9 locations in Europe in October 2011. Now the program, with one substitution,  is coming to Montreal, and screening at the Cinematheque Quebecoise on February 1st, 6:30PM and Tess will be there to present!

“I decided to switch out my own film, Plain Face, for a more recent one, The Whale Story. In Montreal it’s playing as part of the Cinematheque’s weekly animation night. I’m so excited to be screening at a venue that has a weekly animation program!”

Please tell anyone you know in Montreal to come on by! The screening is $8(CAN) for adults.

Stefan Gruber’s Edible Rocks premieres saturday

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Dec 142012
 

Stefan Gruber’s newest animated film Edible Rocks launches saturday night, along with a menu of animation performances the audience gets to select, and a modern dance + animation performance! It’s also a chance to get flipbooks or shirts for last minute holiday gifts!

the show begins at 8pm on Sat Dec 15 at Open Flight: 4205 University way NE $: by donation


Don Hertzfeldt films this Friday

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Dec 052012
 

You’ve probably seen Don Hertzfeldt‘s shorts featuring stick figures, killer balloons, and blood. His trilogy It’s Such a Beautiful Day is a more nuanced work, though it retains his trademark humor. It’s playing one night only at the NW Film Forum this Friday, Dec 7th. It’s one of my favorites ever. Here is the film forum description and the trailer:

“It’s Such a Beautiful Day is Hertzfeldt’s three-part biography of the most three-dimensional stick man you’ll ever meet. Bill can’t help but see his world in absurd distortions, even as he goes about a daily life that isn’t too far from yours or mine. The film follows him through surreally beautiful landscapes as a brain disease starts to contort his outlook even further.”

Don Hertzfeldt’s IT’S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY (trailer) from Cinefamily on Vimeo.

New Animated Work! Free screening on Dec 19th!

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Dec 012012
 

Tess Martin will previewing her new 9 minute animated short They Look Right Through You at the NWFF at a free public screening on December 19th at 6PM. She’s been working on this film on and off for over a year, but mostly the last few months, where she’s been squirreled away in her studio animating furiously.

And she’s not alone! Her good friend and SEAT founder Stefan Gruber will also be screening his brand new 3 minute short Edible Rocks. This is a rare opportunity for them to get feedback from the public about our new work. So yes, they will be handing out anonymous comment cards and there will be a Q&A after the screening. So bring your brains and be prepared to get blown away by brand new, frame by frame film!

Animation Show of Shows this Sunday

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Nov 282012
 

The good folks at ASIFA Seattle have organized a Seattle screening of the touring Animation Show of Shows! It’s THIS SUNDAY at 2PM in the U District. It’s FREE! And all ages. Here is the Facebook event. Cribbed from the AWN page:

“This year’s films include John Kahr’s Disney short Paperman (USA), Till Nowak’s hysterical The Brain Centrifuge Project (Germany), Michele Lemieux’s Here And The Great Elsewhere (Canada), Pixar’s Carlo Vogele’s independent fish tale Una Furtiva Lagrima (USA), Russian Dmitry Geller and the students at Jilin Animation Institute’s I Saw Mice Burying A Cat (China), Martin Zivocky’s graduation film The Case (Czech Republic), Martin Georgiev’s 7596 Frames (Bulgaria), Supinfocom’s Antoine Robert, Dorianne Fibleuil, Paulin Cointot and Maud Sertour’s Le Taxidermiste (France), Israel’s Tomer Eshed’s 3D Flamingo Pride (Germany), Warner Bros. newest short, Matt O’Callaghan’s Daffy’s Rhapsody (USA), Emma de Swaef and Marc Marc James Roels Oh Willy! (Belgium), Supinfocom’s film by Loris Accaries, Marie Ayme, Claire Baudean and Audrey Janvier Tentation (France), and Michaela Pavlatova’s Tram (Czech Republic).”

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