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THE
NEW ENGLAND ANIMATION BASH 2005
The
Boston area's new animation festival
Friday,
August 12 - Monday, August 15
NEAB
Competition Show Winner 8/17/05
The Brattle and Coolidge
Corner Theatres are pleased to announce the winner of this
year's Audience Award is Ian Stewart's CRAZY EYES DOLPHIN
VS. MAD COWS. Congratulations Ian and thank you to all who
participated!
It's
baaaaack! The Coolidge and the Brattle team up again to present
a film festival unlike any other in the Boston area. THE NEW
ENGLAND ANIMATION BASH is dedicated to exploring the full
range of animated films: from gross-out midnite fare to avant-garde
explorations to family friendly international features. The
centerpiece of the festival is a Competition Program of films
programmed by Ned Hinkle of the Brattle and Clinton McClung
of the Coolidge with you, the audience member, deciding who
gets to take home the (soon-to-be) coveted NEAB Audience Award.
The schedule for this year's festival is available below:
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C R E E N I N G S C H E D U L E
FRIDAY,
AUGUST 12
at the Brattle Theatre
7:30 - COMPETITION SHOW
9:30 - THE PLACE PROMISED IN OUR EARLIER
DAYS
SATURDAY,
AUGUST 13
at the Brattle Theatre
2:00 - Dennis Nyback Presents GUMBY SUPERSTAR!
4:30 - Dennis Nyback Presents CORPORATE
CARTOONS
7:00 - AN EVENING WITH EMILY HUBLEY
10:00 - RISD SPOTLIGHT
SUNDAY,
AUGUST 14
at the Brattle Theatre
2:30 - THE IRON GIANT
5:00 - RISD SPOTLIGHT
7:30 - COMPETITION SHOW
9:30 - AVOID EYE CONTACT 2
MONDAY,
AUGUST 15
at the Brattle Theatre
5:30 - COMPETITION SHOW
7:30 - THE IRON GIANT
10:00 - THE IRON GIANT
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R O G R A M D E S C R I P T I O N S
THE
NEW ENGLAND ANIMATION BASH COMPETITION SHOW
Friday 7:30, Brattle
Saturday 9:30, Coolidge
Sunday 2:30, Coolidge
& 7:30, Brattle
Monday 5:30, Brattle
Features
new animated shorts from right here in our own backyard to
halfway around the world. Personally selected from submissions
gathered by the programmers from the Brattle and Coolidge
Corner Theatres, these premiere shorts vary from cell animation
to computer and stop motion animation, from humorous gags
to thoughtful meditations. Viewers of this special competition
program will vote for their favorite - which will receive
the New England Animation Bash Audience Award to be announced
on the final evening of the festival.
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Preview Screening!
THE PLACE PROMISED IN OUR EARLIER
DAYS
Friday 9:30, Brattle
In
an alternate history of the aftermath of World War II, Japan
has been cleaved in half, with the south allied with the United
States and the northern island Hokkaido annexed by the enigmatic
Union. It was on Hokkaido that a mysterious tower had been
built, a strand of metal reaching up out of the atmosphere,
visible even from the south. In 1996, three teenagers, Hiroki,
Takuya and Sayuri, make a pact - they will build an experimental
aircraft, almost invisible to surveillance, cross over to
Hokkaido and unlock the secrets of the tower. Their dream
was never realized, because Sayuri was sent to Tokyo for treatment
after she fell into a coma. It is now three years later. The
rosy illusions of youth have fallen away, but not the unbreakable
strength of the trio's promise. The truth of the tower will
be uncovered, and with it, the link between it and Sayuri's
mysterious, carefully tended condition.
Director
Makoto Shinkai is being haled as an important new talent in
Japanese animation. He crafted his magnificent debut short,
VOICES OF A DISTANT STAR, almost entirely alone and earned
major accolades for it. His breathtaking follow-up, the feature-length
THE PLACE PROMISED IN OUR EARLY DAYS is a lush, patient science-fiction
tale of love, trust, secrecy and the deep human thirst for
truth and knowledge executed with exquisite precision and
taste. It had its theatrical run in Tokyo extended not once
but twice, and furthermore earned the prestigious title of
Best Animated Film at the 59th Mainichi Film Awards, beating
out no less than Otomo's Steamboy and the latest from Hayao
Miyazake!
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AN EVENING WITH EMILY HUBLEY
Saturday 7:00, Brattle
Tickets for this event are $10
Animator
Emily Hubley's personal short films have been exhibited around
the world, and her work has been included to striking use
in the films HEDWIG & THE ANGRY INCH and BLUE VINYL. Recently
Emily received one of the first Annenberg grants from the
Sundance Institute in support of "The Toe Tactic," her first
feature film which will combine animation and live action.
She joins us in person to present works from the archives
of the Hubley family, including many collaborations with her
musician sister Georgia (Yo La Tengo), and Academy Award winning
parents John and Faith Hubley - whose films were greatly influenced
by their children. The evening is a remarkable exploration
of this innovative "animated" family.
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DENNIS NYBACK PRESENTS
Film
archivist Dennis Nyback has traveled the globe creating exciting
film programs from his collection of thousands of early films,
from jazz to soundies to educational films and a massive collection
of rare, forgotten, forbidden, and amazing short films. He
joins us in person with a collection of some of his favorite
and rarely seen animated programs.
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OFFENSIVE ANIMATION
Friday midnite, Coolidge
There
was a time when ethnic humor was a staple of popular entertainment,
with dialect comedians on every Vaudeville bill, and race
being a staple of many gags. In these politically correct
times we try to ignore that America was once a much less sensitive
place, but these cartoons from the 1930's and 1940's are an
eye-opening reflection of the times in which they were made.
Remember, this was the American mainstream, and this show
is an equal opportunity offender, featuring beloved cartoon
characters making fun of blacks, Arabs, Chinese, Japanese,
women, and a whole bunch of others.
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GUMBY SUPERSTAR!
Saturday 2:00, Brattle
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the birth of Gumby,
here's a show filled with some of his greatest shorts. The
1950's Gumby claymation series has always startled and amazed
with its imaginative plots and characterizations. The playful
worlds (and moods) created by the steady artistry of Art Clokey
(Gumby's creator) continue to mesmerize the youthful hearts
and minds of millions. Forget TV, now on the BIG screen you
can see Gumby Racer, The Magic Marbles, Gumby's Christmas,
The Magic Wand and other original Gumby cartoons.
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CORPORATE CARTOONS
Saturday 4:30, Brattle
Artistic
exercise meets shameless hucksterism! The very rarest animation
are those cartoons made not for movie theaters but for industrial
promotion. Of course they wanted to entertain, but they also
had a product to sell. This program will include DOOMSDAY
FOR PESTS, a fabulous Jerry Fairbanks production from 1952
promoting paint laced with DDT; HAPPY LITTLE BLUEBIRD VALLEY
a wonderful 1958 pro-electrical power film showing how dams
will actually make the birds and wildlife happy; MAN ON THE
LAND, a film made by UPA (Gerald Mcboing Boing, Mr.Magoo,
etc) showing the wonderful benefits of petroleum and extolling
the unlimited quantities and great future of low prices; and
a couple of dozen animated TV commercials from the fifties
and sixties.
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CARTOONS TOO VIOLENT FOR CHILDREN
Saturday midnite, Coolidge
Back
in the 1930s and 1940's, with the hardships of the depression
and the world at war, violence was close at hand to movie
goers. Cartoons of the time gleefully celebrated the sort
of violent mayhem that is considered "too extreme" today.
Work by giants of animation like Tex Avery, Walt Disney, Max
Fleischer, and Walter Lantz are celebrated in this show of
other-the-top violent toons, the ones we grew up with, but
which will probably never again be shown to kids.
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AVOID EYE CONTACT 2: THE BEST OF
NYC INDEPENDENT ANIMATION
Friday 9:30, Coolidge
Sunday 9:30, Brattle
This
over-the-top mix of hilarious animated shorts features internationally
acclaimed films from New York City based animators. Program
includes new works from Bill Plympton, Patrick Smith, Mike
Overbeck, PES, John Dilworth, Signe Baumane, Fran Krause,
and Nina Paley. www.squarefootagefilms.com
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RISD SPOTLIGHT
Saturday 10:00, Brattle
Sunday 5:00, Brattle
Many
of the best and the brightest animators in New England lurk
within the halls of The Rhode Island School of Art and Design.
This program features recent award-winning works curated by
Bryan Papciak.
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PICK A WINNER
Sunday 7:30, Coolidge
Rhode
Island's art-damaged noise experts Load Records present a
stunning collection of 17 animated videos set to music from
avant garde bands like Lightning bolt, Neon Hunk, Wolf Eyes,
and Forcefield. These shorts feature colors so bright and
images so eclectic - puppetry, hallucinogenic special effects,
homemade animation, hand-drawn cartoons, creepy home movies,
and primitive old-school computer graphics - they will make
your eyes melt and your brain bleed.
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THE IRON GIANT
Sunday 2:30, Brattle
Monday 7:30, 10:00, Brattle
From
Brad Bird, the director of THE INCREDIBLES, comes this fantastic
retro sci-fi animated tale based on the popular children's
book by Ted Hughes. When a young boy finds a giant - and
we do mean GIANT - robot who falls from the sky smack into
the middle of small town 50s America, he must hide it from
his mom with the help of the local scrap-yard beatnik. But
you can't keep a good robot (with lots of cool gadgets) a
secret for long, and soon everyone from the neighbors to the
government are trying to catch the Iron Giant (voiced, by
the way, by fellow giant Vin Diesel). With no songs, no side
kicks, and no cheap ending, this outstanding first film from
Bird (previously known for his work on The Simpsons and the
Tim Burton series Family Dog) is a breath of fresh air in
today's animation world!
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