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ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE - ISSUE 4.9 - DECEMBER 1999
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SAFO `99: How A Festival Should Be
Panels and Workshops and More, Oh My!
The special film programs and retrospectives
again provided students with intimate access to many well-known and
respected animators and animation executives, who provided their audiences
with thoughtfully compiled presentations. These types of events can't
be easy to coordinate and pull off. I know how tough it is just getting
my two kids to school in the morning, let alone leading a presentation
on the making of The
Iron Giant.
Danny
Antonucci was there, showing such crowd pleasing favorites as
Lupo the Butcher, Lupo doing Converse Sneaker commercials,
as well as some Ed, Edd n Eddy episodes. You know how people
say it is the shy, demure, soft-spoken artist who does the most outrageous
work? Well, those people never met Danny Antonucci. I'd love to be
a fly on the wall at a meeting between him and some network programming
executives! Peter Dougherty from MTV Europe showed a rapid fire sequence
of MTV animated logos and other tasty treats, including at least one
rather interesting Brothers Grunt short (there may have been two shown,
but I was so stunned by the first, I'm not sure). Gerben Schermer,
director of the Holland
Festival, showed a program of animated commercials from Holland
that included one astonishing animated piece from industrial giant
Phillips, a stop-motion tale of a wintry trip to the zoo in which
every character, including all the animals, were beautifully designed
around light bulbs. Truly amazing. An international competition program
of applied animation (i.e. animation done by people who have to work
for a living) included three extremely funny MTV commercials for Beavis
and Butthead Do America,
where a live-action Mike Judge is shown directing the animated duo
with hilarious consequences, such as Beavis getting pummeled by the
stunt double. If you are not laughing, I guess you had to be there.
I was awfully tired and it seemed really funny to me. Sweden's Studio
Film Technarna had a program of unbelievably bizarre animation that
had me looking at the screen with the same tilted head stare that
my cat employs when he watches me use the bathroom.
As far as I'm concerned, SAFO `99 showed how
a festival can and should be run. It's nice to know that there are
still individuals and key organizations that feel it their duty to
support animation and the new generation of artists and storytellers
in ways that are neither crassly commercial or hopelessly ignorant
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