Accelerate Sessions
Our Accelerate Sessions bring together animation artists, producers and curators, in conversation about aspects of contemporary animation practice.
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Watch recordings of previous Accelerate Sessions
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Accelerate Session: All that is solid
recorded 13 February 2025
Three of the artists with work in All that is solid: the third Animate OPEN – Meghana Bisineer, Emily Sasmor, and Case Jernigan – in conversation with artist Katerina Athanasopoulou, particularly looking at working in animation to delve into ideas of belonging and place.
Accelerate Session: Sustainable Practice
recorded 28 October 2024
This session explored sustainable practice for experimental animation. Led by Lauren Orme, Director, Cardiff Animation Festival, with artists Lewis Heriz, Dominica Harrison, and Kim Noce.
Accelerate Session: PLANTING artists
recorded 17 September 2024
BSL interpreter
Our PLANTING programme commissioned artists Simon Hamlyn, Lewis Heriz, and Karen Okpoti, to make short, animated films that explore our relationship to nature – cultivation, community, environment, and place – in response to the work of three Derby ‘gardens’ – Derby Arboretum (Britain’s first public park), Hannah Fields community garden, and Derbyshire Wildlife Trust’s urban Green Corridor project. The PLANTING artists were in conversation with artist and curator Chiara Dellerba.
The Personal Archive (March 2024)
Jessica Ashman in conversation with Mary Martins and Maybelle Peters about what the ‘personal archive’ means to them, their work and their individual artistic practice, especially within the realms of animation and moving image.
ANIMATE X QUAD: identity (February 2024)
Jessica Ashman and Jake Elwes – two of the artists in our exhibition with QUAD, Derby, talking with Suzanne Golden, artist and Co-director of BACKLIT, the artist-led public gallery and studios in Nottingham.
Live Animation (January 2024)
Curated by Birgitta Hosea, with Rose Bond, Johannes DeYoung, and Miwa Matreyek.
Accelerate Sessions below from 2020
Female Figures: Abigail Addison from Animate talks with Jessica Ashman, Anna Bunting-Branch and Michelle Kranot.
Two sessions curated by Edwin Rostron/Edge of Frame
– exploring the challenges and opportunities presented by VR for artists working with animation. With artists Katerina Athanasopoulou, Edwina Ashton and her collaborator David Jacobs, and hosted by Dr LIlly Husbands
– Cheng-Hsu Chung (Taiwan/Berlin), Wednesday Kim (South Korea/USA) and Amy Lockhart (Canada), discuss their vibrant, absurd and transgressive work in animation and beyond, with Dr Lilly Husbands
Three session in partnership with British Council Film
– Helen De Witt (BFI London Film Festival Experimenta) talks 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)
– Ellie Land and Alys Scott Hawkins from Animated Documentary talk with Mary Martins, John Summerson, and Signe Baumane
– Tom Higham, York Mediale; Liz Rosenthal, Venice Film Festival; Jürgen Hagler, Ars Electronica; Helen Starr, Mechatronic Library; Ulrich Schrauth, London Film Festival Expanded, with Gary Thomas from Animate