TURIN, 19-20 DECEMBER 1999
GAM, GALLERY OF MODERN ART

Asifa Italia, with the help of the Ministry of Cultural Affairs, the Regione Piemonte and the Comune di Torino, together with the support of Young Artists Circle and the British Council and Pro-Helvetia, is organizing a meeting with a series of films on the the subject of "Art & Animation", to be held in Turin in the conference hall of the Gallery of Modern Art (GAM) the 19th and 20th of December 1999.
The meeting aims at stimulating attention on animation as an art form with a particular stress on indipendent short films of research, experimentation and artistic expression.
The event is made of theoretical round-tables, talks, discussion on the subject, reports and conferences with film projections and meeting with artists.

SUNDAY, 19 December

9.30 Animation from perception to consciousness
Carlo Montanaro (professor at Accademia delle Belle Arti of Venice). Short films programme: The Enchanted Drawings, James Stuart Blackton, USA, 1900; Le Ratapeur de cervelles, Emile Cohl, France, 1911; Little Nemo, Winsor McCay, USA 1911; Munchen Berling Wanderung, Oskar Fischinger, Germany, 1927, Trade Tattoo, Len Lye, G.B., 1937; The Spirit of `43, Jack King (Walt Disney Production), USA, 1943; Colour Sequences , Dwinell Grant, USA, 1943.

10.30 Animation and Art Research in Italy
Bruno di Marino (Lab Museum of Contemporary Art, Università "La Sapienza", Rome).
Programme of short films by Luigi Veronesi, Bruno Munari, Claudio Cintoli, Luca Patella, Rosa Foschi, Gianluigi Toccafondo, Leonardo Carrano.

11.30 "Animation" a Language for Art
Round Table. Alfio Bastiancich, co-ordinator. Partecipants: Bruno Di Marino, Maria Grazia Mattei (MGM Communication), Jayne Pilling (director of British Animation Awards), Gianni Rondolino (cinema historian and critic), Carlo Montanaro, Luca Raffaelli (I Castelli Animati Festivalm director), Elena Volpato (video library GAM curator).

13.00 Lunch Break

15.15:The Young Artist Circle for Independent Animation
Luigi Ratclif (secretary general Circuito Giovani Artisti)

15.30: Animation Artist Identity

Round Table with animation artists.

Alfio Bastiancich. Co-ordinator

Partecipants: Enzo D'Alò, Alberto D'Amico, Roberto Catani, Giulio Gianini, Vincenzo Gioanola, Ruth Lingford, Leonardo Carrano, Georges Schwizgebel.

17.30: "Eyes wide shut", Images from Animation
Jayne Pilling, British Animation Awards director, presents an International selection of independent contemporary short films. Films by George Dunning, Petra Freeman, Alison Hempstock, Barbel Neubauer, Michaela Pavlatova, Simon Pummell, Erica Russell, Raoul Servais, Jan Svankmajer, Gianluigi Toccafondo, Solveig Von Kleist, Kirsten Winter.

21.00:
Georges SchwizgebelMeeting with the artist. Short films programme : Patchwork, co-directed, 1970; Le Vol d'Icare, 1975, Perspectives, 1975; Hors Jeux, 1977; Le Ravissement de Frank. N. Stein, 1982;78 Tours, 1985; Nakounine, 1986; Academy Leader Variations, co-directed, 1988; Le sujet du tableau, 1989; La course à l'abîme, 1993; L'année du daim, 1995; Cyclades, realised with Claude Luyet, 1996; Zig Zag, 1996; Fugue, 1998.

Roberto Catani
The young Italian animator presents his two short films, realized with pastels and gypsum on black paper, selected and awarded at the most important International Animation Festivals: Il pesce rosso, 1995; La sagra, 1999.

MONDAY, 20 December

9.30 Giampiero Leo, Assessore alla Cultura Regione Piemonte

9.45 Animation as an Artistic curriculum
Round Table with Art and Cinema Institutes who include animation in their curricula.
Laura Fiori, president of Asifa Italy, co-ordinator
Partecipants: National School of Cinema (Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia), Carlo Montanaro, Accademia delle Belle Arti di Venezia; Roberto Catani, Art Institute, Urbino; Ruth Lingford, Royal College of Art, London

12.00 Animation made by the National School of Cinema and by the Art Institute of Urbino.
Projection of short films realized by students

13.00 Break

15.00 Animation at The Royal College of Art
Ruth Lingford, filmmaker and teacher at the RCA, presents a selection of short films produced by the school.
Short films programme: Carnival , Sue Young, 1985; Baggage , 1992; Pendulum , Stuart Hilton, 1991; Anyway , Run Wrake, 1990; Egoli , Karen Kelly ,1989; Small Blue Tick, Luis Cook & Gesini Kratzner, 1993; Papageno , Sarah Roper, 1991; Godspeak , Corinna Askinna, 1993; Gourmand , Andrew Higgins, 1996; Surge , Jan Otto Eskev, 1997; Condensed Night , Laurie Proud, 1999; Hilary, Anthony Hodgson, 1994; Little Wolf, An Vrombaut, 1993; Death and the Mother, Ruth Lingford, 1997.

16.30 Vincenzo Gioanola, music on film
Meeting with the artist who realises his short films with the peculiar "direct on film animation technique": Boogie, 1982 (music video for Paolo Conte) Russian Roulette, 1985; Fight da Faida, 1994 (music video for Frankie Hi NRG)

17.30 Tribute to Gianini and Luzzati
Meeting with the artists and projection of the recently restaured film The Magic Flute

Place of the conference: Conference Hall, Gam, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, C.so Galileo Ferraris 30, Turin