ANIMAFEST SCANNER IX | SYMPOSIUM FOR CONTEMPORARY ANIMATION STUDIES
Animafest Scanner IX: Symposium for Contemporary Animation Studies
&TD Theatre, Savska 25
07-08/06, 10:00 – 17:00 h
In English, open to public.
As the worldwide animation studies are rapidly growing and evolving in recent years, catching up with the increasing field of animated films, Animafest Scanner symposium is again at the frontline of the discourse and the interaction of theoretical and practical approaches to animation. The ninth edition of the Symposium for Contemporary Animation Studies Animafest Scanner IX aims again to create synergy of theoretical and practical discourses, and stimulate exchange between filmmakers and scholars.
The symposium is held in association with the World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb. Over the course of its fifty-year history, the festival has given a stage to different animation forms and formats in competition and non-competition environments, presenting a worldwide selection of auteur, experimental and mainstream animated films in various programs.
The speakers will focus on the following subjects: Global Animation and Its History – Tribute to Giannalberto Bendazzi, The State of Contemporary European Animation and Its Future, Gender and Diversity.
This year’s keynote speaker is the recipient of the Animafest Zagreb Award for Outstanding Contributions to Animation Studies for 2022,a critic and scholar of broad horizons, one of the most important global experts in animation and a significant researcher of similar creative possibilities of human imagination, such as special film effects (where animation is very much used), or fantasy and horror genres, Rolf Giesen. A magnificent connoisseur also of Zagreb’s contribution to the making and screening of the finest international animation, he shared his knowledge with the world through numerous university and public lectures, museum and cinematheque exhibitions and shows, in monographic, historiographic and lexicographic books. He collaborated on educational films and shows, but first and foremost in his texts and books published in German and English he successfully covered the issues such as film education in the digital era. His contributions to the insight regarding character building and acting in animation, as well as animation in Nazi Germany, big subjects such as Chinese animation (e.g. in the book Chinese Animation: A History and Filmography, 1922-2012) and puppetry in animation – ranging from historical sources to digital revolution, from tricks in live action film to fully animated films (e.g. in the book Puppetry, Puppet Animation and the Digital Age). Present in many animation platforms and forums, Rolf Giesen is one of the beacons both for today’s animation studies and for the coming generations. (Nikica Gilić)
Historical and current trends, numerous perspectives, new findings in the fast-growing field of animation studies, paired with exciting speakers – all this and more awaits you at the Animafest Scanner IX symposium, in the context of screenings and other events organised by Animafest Zagreb 2022.
Organisers:
World Festival of Animated film – Animafest Zagreb
ASIFA Austria
Hulahop Film & Art Production
Organising committee:
Daniel Šuljić, MA, World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb
Franziska Bruckner, PhD St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences / AG Animation Vienna
Nikica Gilić, PhD, Prof., Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
Prof. Holger Lang, Webster University
Prof. Hrvoje Turković, PhD, Prof. in retirement, Academy of Dramatic Arts, University of Zagreb
Andrijana Ružić, Independent Scholar, Università Statale di Milano
With support of:
City of Zagreb
Zagreb Tourist Board
Croatian Audiovisual Centre
The Croatian Film Directors’ Guild
Austrian Cultural Forum in Zagreb
AG Animation / Society for Media Studies
St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences
07/06 TUESDAY
10:00 Welcome & Introduction
10:10 – 10:55 Keynote: Caught Between Two Stools: Star Wars vs. the Art of Animation - Rolf Giesen (Animafest Award for Outstanding Contribution to Animation Studies)
PANEL 1 – GLOBAL ANIMATION AND ITS HISTORY - TRIBUTE TO GIANNALBERTO BENDAZZI
Moderator: Hrvoje Turković
11:00 – 11:30 Earmarked for Collision – A Brief Tracing of Collage Animation - Chris Robinson (Canada)
11:45 – 12:15 A Reason for Extinction. An Ecocritical Reading of Animated Dinosaurs - Marco Bellano (Italy)
12:20 – 12:50 Rocky and Bullwinkle and Propaganda - Derek G. Larson (United States)
14:30 – 15:00 Paulus Hector Mair's “De Arte Athletica” as Pre-cinematic Animation - Charalambos Margaritis (Cyprus)
15:05 – 15:35 The Modernist Aesthetics of the Bulgarian Animation School in 1960s and its Collage Cut-out Use Through the Influence of the Modern Graphic and Poster Design - Velislava Gospodinova (Bulgaria)
PANEL 2 – THE STATE OF CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN ANIMATION AND ITS FUTURE
Moderator: Nikica Gilić
15:50 – 16:20 Artificial Intelligence and the Crisis of Cinematographic Naturalism: From Copying Reality to Translating Reality – A Critical Approach. - Georges Sifianos (France)
16:25 – 16:55 Animated Installations in Hospital Environment: Applied Animation in the Service of Healthcare - Lea Vidaković, Melinda Šefčić (Croatia)
08/06 WEDNESDAY
10:00 Introduction
PANEL 2 – THE STATE OF CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN ANIMATION AND ITS FUTURE
Moderator: Andrijana Ružić
10:10 – 10:40 Excavating the Frame: The Animated Still Image of Susana Sousa Dias - Pedro Serrazina (Portugal)
10:45 – 11:15 Animation as an educational tool on the example of children’s animation production - Agata Hofelmajer-Roś (Poland)
11:20 – 11:50 Traditional Animation in the Digital Era - Pablo Nicolás Martínez Ballarín (Spain)
PANEL 3 – GENDER AND DIVERSITY
Moderator: Holger Lang
14:00 – 14:30 “I’M NOT A FEMINIST, I’M A CARTOONIST” (Visual Humour As a Means of Articulating the Demand for Equality) - Midhat Ajanović (Sweden)
14:35 – 15:05 Otherness in Music as Sound as Music Representation - Irena Paulus (Croatia)
15:20 – 15:50 Holes: Touching the Void - Birgitta Hosea (United Kingdom)
15:55 – 16:25 Twisted Tales – Animated Fairy Tales with a Twist for the Children of the Present - Sara Božanić (Slovenia/Croatia)