Animations from Cape Dorset
Filed under: animation, 1970s, Canada, collage, Color, Cutout, Experimental, hand-drawn, National Film Board of Canada, Papercut, Racial representation, Short Collection, Stop Motion, 1973
Producer(s): Joanasie Salamonie, John Taylor
Release Date: 1973
"Animation from Cape Dorset is a 1973 experimental animated short film made by a group of artists in Kinnigat, Nunavut (formerly Cape Dorset.) The film combines seventeen pieces made by six Inuit animators, including Solomonie Pootoogook, Timmun Alari..."
Kaleidoscope
Filed under: animation, 1930s, Color, Direct Animation, Dufaycolor, Experimental, Gasparcolor, GPO Film Unit, Latin, Len Lye, London Film Society, New Zealand, Painted Animation, U.K., 1935
Producer(s): Gerald Noxon
Release Date: 27/10/1935
"Premiered at the London Film Society in 1935, Kaleidoscope is an early example of experimental animator Len Lye’s pioneering direct or “cameraless” animation techniques. The film’s notable use of stencil work illustrates Lye’s textile-like ..."
Len Lye
Filed under: people, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 20th Century Studios, Australia, Britain, Color, Direct Animation, Dufaycolor, Experimental, Gasparcolor, GPO Film Unit, London Film Society, New Zealand, Painted Animation, Samoa, Time Inc., U.K., U.S.A., Animator, Artist, Director, Filmmaker, Producer, Screenwriter, Sculptor, Visual Artist
"Leonard Charles Huia Lye—more famously known as Len Lye—was born on July 5th, 1901, in Christchurch, New Zealand. He was a trailblazer in early-to-mid 20th century filmmaking, best known for his development of cameraless or “direct” animat..."