In which Chris Robinson asks animators profound and inane questions that have little to do with animation. This week's guest is Russian animator, Konstantin Bronzit
Konstantin Bronzit is responsible for some of the greatest animation short films (Switchcraft, At the Ends of the Earth, We Can’t Live without Cosmos) and he makes a really delicious poutine using Romanian vodka and Dutch will power. He agreed to meet me in 1998 for a drunken walk through Utrecht’s orange light district (yeah, it’s not quite up there with Amsterdam’s red one) on a crisp November evening. I’m pretty sure we were being followed by a wild haired bespectacled Dutch man in a trench coat.
I get the greatest pleasure from....
Reading books, eating cheesecakes and having sex.
If I could have – assuming this is your real name – a nom de plume, what would it be?
I'm still thinking about it but no ideas.
The sport I do or would like to play is...
I do swimming, play chess and sex.
A (non-family member) person I idolize is...
I don't like idols, I have no one.
The song that makes me tingle is....
Oh, goodness! So many, so many... Ok, two: 'Journeyman (Vandraen)' from Blackmore's Night
and 'The Show Must Go On' from Queen. And plus.... Oh, goodness...
The funniest thing that happened to me…
That I didn't disappear in the animation world. Not supposed to.
A well-known figure in the world of independent animation, writer, author & curator Chris Robinson is the Artistic Director of the Ottawa International Animation Festival.
