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The festival’s creative director Hämid Shajarian interviews the participants of the National Competition category of Animatricks 2021: Tove Johnson – Jumalolento by Juho Maurinen (2019), Left Behind by Minna Eriksson (2020), Rinse and Shine by Iiris Korjus ja Katariina Haukka (2021), The Things I Saw: Monday by David Graham (2020), Bad to the boner by Robert Lönnqvist (2021), Tiedänkö mitä etsin by Ylva-Lii Wahlström (2019)
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Austrian animation director and media-artist Reinhold Bidner is working in the fields of animation, media art and games. In his Masterclass Encounters & Inbetweens, Reinhold talks about and discuss his artistic animated experiments in between various disciplines, formats and techniques. He will also present images and video excerpts. The session was moderated by Animatricks Creative Director Hämid Shajarian.
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Interview with Olga Pärn, illustrator, animator, and director from Belarus who currently lives in Estonia.
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- Experimental
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The director interview with Natasha Cetner.
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Director interview with Shoko Hara. Film referenced in this interview: Shoko Hara – Just A Guy (2020).
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On her Masterclass “Unsung Women Heros of Animation”, the well known Animation Journalist, Nancy Denney-Phelps reflects why there is so few women in the animation industry, even though almost 65% of all animation students are female and why we all know the Fleisher Brothers and Walt Disney, but with a few exceptions, the women who blazed the animation trail are almost unknown to us. Denney-Phelps is a distinguished animation journalist and a well-known guest in many Animation Festivals. She writes an animation blog to the Animation World Network – AWN.
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Director interview with Michaela Mihalyi & Carolina Sandvik.
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“Missing Link” is the latest feature from Laika Studios, which makes some of today’s biggest stop motion animated movies. Their latest stars Hugh Jackman, Zach Galifianakis, and Zoe Saldana. Director Chris Butler talked to us about all the work that went into bringing this movie to life. It involved years of work and over 100 handcrafted sets.
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- Adventure
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Priit talks on the creation of his film HOTEL E (1992). How he got the idea, the structure of the film, filling the basic structure with events, solutions for style of animation and visual design as well as describe the work process. The master class is moderated by Ukrainian animation director Mykyta Lyskov.
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Interview with Suzie Templeton – Academy Award winner for Peter and the Wolf(2006).
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- Drama
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In this MasterClass, the artist Aurora Gasull discussed her fascinating journey through what became known as Visual Music, abstract cinema, absolute cinema…; her personal motivations and tools at the beginning of this path, and their development until today, in chronological order.
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- Abstract
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Katariina Lillqvist is well known of her puppet animations. Her latest short animation Last Matador (2021) has just been released and will be seen in Animatricks 2021! In this masterclass Katariina will present her career, talk about puppet animation and about her study and work experience in Czech Republic.
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The lecture covers animation in the context of new media and how it changes under the influence of other types of contemporary art, such as games, performance, installation. What kind of new animation tools emerged? How to use bugs and mistakes in search of innovation? How to use AI in contemporary animation?
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