{"id":6280,"date":"2010-07-25T22:33:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T05:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=6280"},"modified":"2010-07-25T22:33:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T05:33:52","slug":"animix-10th-international-animation-comics-caricature-festival-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=6280","title":{"rendered":"Animix – 10th International Animation, Comics, Caricature Festival 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Celebrating its 10th birthday, the International Animation Comics Caricature\u00a0Festival is taking on an expanded, 5 day program, and a shorter name \u2013 Animix! The festival will take place at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque from August 17 \u2013 21. Hundreds of animated films will be screened at the festival, which also includes workshops, master classes, exhibits, lectures and activities for children.<\/p>\n

Jerusalem animator and illustrator Yossi Abulafia will be the keynote guest of the festival and an exhibit of his caricatures will be on display. Abulafia has written 11 books, illustrated 140, and created animation for children\u2019s shows, news programs, entertainment and satire \u2013 including the ground-breaking \u201cNikui Rosh\u201d (1976) a program of social and political satire that merged comic skits with surreal animation, which had an enormous impact on Israeli television and culture. Abulafia will participate in two festival events: one evening will focus on his work in animation, and the second will be a joint appearance with author Meir Shalev, dedicated to the topic of illustrating children\u2019s books.<\/p>\n

International guests of this year\u2019s festival will be the Argentinian caricaturist Mordillo and Ron Diamond, leading independent producer and founder of ACME Filmworks. The colorful visual humor of Mordillo\u2019s images has achieved worldwide recognition and the artist has been honored with many awards. One of his most famous cartoons was made for Amnesty International in the 80s \u2013 an entirely gray city where a man who has painted his house in bright colors is immediately arrested. Diamond will present \u201cAnimation Show of Shows\u201d at the festival, with selections of new animation, as well as two workshops, one aimed at animators where he will map out the international animation scene, and one intended for the general public.<\/p>\n

Israeli broadcaster and expert on German film David Witstom will present an evening dedicated to Fritz Lang\u2019s classic film \u201cMetropolis\u201d (1926). The original film was lost and for many years only a shorter version was available for screening. An original version was discovered two years ago in Argentina and an ambitious project was begun to digitally restore each frame. The story of the versions of Metropolis raises many interesting questions \u2013 such as, what is an original? Witstom will discuss the restoration project and Fritz Lang, and screen Artem Demenok\u2019s documentary \u201cJourney to Metropolis,\u201d (2010) which includes a rare interview with Lang.<\/p>\n

\u201cHarvest 2010\u201d – three programs of Israeli animation will be shown at the festival and ASIFA-Israel, the Israeli branch of Association Internationale du Film d\u2019Animation will hold its annual competition.<\/p>\n

In addition to programs of short animated films from around the world, two feature length films will be shown at the festival: \u2018My Dog Tulip,\u2019 directed by Paul Fierlinger based on J. R. Ackerley\u2019s novel, and \u2018The Immigrants\u2019 (also known as La Dolce Vita) by Gabor Csupo.<\/p>\n

Shabi Mizrahi, Deputy Director Culture and Arts Division and Director of the Performance Department that has produced the festival from the start, says, \u201cThe journey began ten years ago when the festival was but a day old. Since then it has grown to become an important festival in Israel and the only one to bring together a concentration of Israeli and international animation, comics and caricature and allow the Israeli audience to enjoy and keep up with the latest on these enchanting art forms.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nissim (Nusko) Hezkiyahu is the festival\u2019s Artistic Director, Dudu Shalita is the Animation Curator and Galit Barsky is the producer. The festival is produced by the Tel Aviv Cinematheque, Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality \u2013 Performance Department and the Ministry of Culture Israeli Film Commission and will take place at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque, 2 Shprintzak Street, Tel Aviv. Tickets and information: 03-6060800.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Celebrating its 10th birthday, the International Animation Comics Caricature\u00a0Festival is taking on an expanded, 5 day program, and a shorter name \u2013 Animix! The festival will take place at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque from August 17 \u2013 21. Hundreds of animated films will be screened at the festival, which also includes workshops, master classes, exhibits, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}