Schedule
Tue, 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM (1/24/2024 - 5/7/2024) Location: SLC HEIM 135
Wed, 10:00 AM - 10:55 AM (1/24/2024 - 5/7/2024) Location: SLC HEIM 211
Wed, 11:05 AM - 12:00 PM (1/24/2024 - 5/7/2024) Location: SLC HEIM 211
Wed, 2:00 PM - 2:55 PM (1/24/2024 - 5/7/2024) Location: SLC HEIM 211
Description
This seminar course will take the form of a screening and small-lecture discussion, designed to provide an overview of auteur animation based on alternative writing and the relationship of form and style to content. We will examine various forms of animated films produced between 1960 and the present, with some time spent on the history and cultural crosscurrents that this work was produced within. The class will survey a wide range of work from a diverse selection of artists, including Oscar Fischinger, Lotte Reiniger, Renske Mijnheer, Stacey Steers, Karen Yasinsky, Adam Beckett, Christine Panushka, Chris Sullivan, William Kindridge, Lius Cook, and many others. The focus of the class is on animated film forms alternative to commercial animation; hand-drawn, cell-painted, cutout, stop-motion, pixilated, puppet, and more recently, CGI independents. In most cases, artists retaining control of their own work—unlike the battery of decision makers in commercial studio systems—will be the gu