Accelerate Session/Animation Salon: curating experimental and artists’ animation
Join us for a virtual coffee break with four leading international curators/programmers of experimental and artists’ animation. This is our third Accelerate Session, and the first of three in partnership with British Council Film.
Accelerate Session/Animation Salon:
Curating Experimental and Artists’ Animation
11:00 (UK time), Wednesday 21 October
Zoom
Free. Spaces Limited. Register here.
Supported by Arts Council England’s Emergency Response Fund.
Helen De Witt (BFI London Film Festival Experimenta) will be talking with Edwin Carels (International Film Festival Rotterdam), Aneta Ozorek (Kaboom Animation Festival, Amsterdam) and Wiktoria Petzer (Vienna Shorts), and Herb Shellenberger (Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival), about the place of experimental and artists’ animation in exhibition in galleries, experimental and mainstream festivals, online, and in the context of COVID-19.
Still above: Chado (2020, Dominica Harrison) Produced by Animate Projects, co-produced with Blind Pig, and supported by the BFI Network with National Lottery funding. Showing at Leicester Print Workshop as part of the exhibition Chado: Dreaming in Texture 12 September – 7 November 2020
Speakers
Helen De Witt (Chair)
Helen is a film curator lecturer and writer. She is a programme Advisor for the London Film Festivals’ Experimenta strand for artists’ film and video, and has also worked for the BFI as Head of Cinemas and BFI Festivals Producer. Other previous roles include Head of Acquisitions at Cinenova Women’s Film Distribution and the first Head of Cinema at the Lux Centre for Film, Video and Digital Arts. She teaches at Birkbeck and University of Arts London.
Edwin Carels
Edwin has worked as a programmer at International Film Festival Rotterdam for many years, and currently curates Art Directions, the festival’s wide-ranging programme of art installations, performances and exhibitions. He’s worked on exhibitions with Chris Marker, The Quay Brothers, Robert Breer, Al and Al, and Ken Jacobs, among many others. He curated the exhibition Graphology, exploring a genealogy of automated drawing, at M HKA, Antwerp and The Drawing Room, London.
He has written extensively on media-archeology, visual arts, film and animation. He teaches at the KASK/Faculty of Fine Arts of the University College in Ghent, Belgium.
Aneta Ozorek
Aneta is an Artistic Director of Kaboom Animation Festival in Amsterdam and Utrecht, a film curator, and education expert. She has many years’ experience organising film events, educational workshops, exhibitions, and festivals across Europe. She is Head of Short and Feature Section of CEE Animation Pitching Forum, member of the board of REX Animation Film Festival and Short Film conference.
Wiktoria Pelzer
Wiktoria co-curates the Animation Avantgarde programmes at VIS Vienna Shorts Festival. She has been programmer and director of the Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus, Vienna’s art house city-cinema since 2017. She is also co-responsible for the distribution Stadtkino Filmverleih. She was programme coordinator for the Crossing Europe Filmfestival in Linz for seven years, and she still curates a special programme at the festival.
Herb Shellenberger
Herb is Programmer of Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, where he’s worked since 2016. He curated the series Independent Frames: American Experimental Animation in the 1970s + 1980s which premiered at Tate Modern and toured internationally. He’s curated screenings for institutions such as Anthology Film Archives, Flaherty Seminar, Irish Film Institute, LUX, and Lightbox Film Center, Philadelphia.
Herb is Editor of Rep Cinema International, a newsletter focusing on repertory and archival film programming around the world, and has written for Art-Agenda, Art Monthly, The Brooklyn Rail, International Film Festival Rotterdam, LUX, Vdrome and Walker Art Center.
Accelerate Sessions is a series of online conversations with animation artists, programmers, producers and curators, in partnership with London International Animation Festival, Edge of Frame, Animated Documentary, and the British Council. The next Session is on animated documentary, programmed by Alys Scott-Hawkins and Ellie Land at Animated Documentary, on 4 November. More details soon.
