The Ann Arbor Film Festival, having survived their half-a-century blowout in 2012, is back with another rip-roarin’ 51st edition in 2013, which will run from March 19-24, screening a mind-boggling amount of experimental short films and a few features.
Highlights of the fest include:
Special presentations by this year’s jurors, including Marcin Gizycki round-up of Polish animation from the 1950s to the present; Laida Lertxundi’s selection of some of her films as well as her biggest influences; and Kevin Jerome Everson’s mini-retrospective of his own films.
There’s also special tributes to Pat O’Neill, including a retrospective of his short films from the ’70s to the present as well as a screening of his 1989 35mm experimental epic Water and Power; Suzan Pitt, with selections of short films from her career; and a screening of Ken Burns’ latest doc The Central Park Five, co-directed with his daughter Sarah Burns and son-in-law David McMahon,...
Highlights of the fest include:
Special presentations by this year’s jurors, including Marcin Gizycki round-up of Polish animation from the 1950s to the present; Laida Lertxundi’s selection of some of her films as well as her biggest influences; and Kevin Jerome Everson’s mini-retrospective of his own films.
There’s also special tributes to Pat O’Neill, including a retrospective of his short films from the ’70s to the present as well as a screening of his 1989 35mm experimental epic Water and Power; Suzan Pitt, with selections of short films from her career; and a screening of Ken Burns’ latest doc The Central Park Five, co-directed with his daughter Sarah Burns and son-in-law David McMahon,...
- 3/19/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Run Wrake's Rabbit triggered a moderate obsession. I stumbled across the multiple award winning animated short back in early 2007 while programming a selection of short films here in Toronto, the film then about halfway through its festival run. It was as striking and immediately iconic a piece of work as you'd ever hope to come across and darkly funny, to boot. I immediately went digging for more and fell into a hole dug by the acclaimed animator.Run Wrake was, quite simply, one of the most strikingly original creative minds of recent years. His work was immediately recognizable as his own, his personality burning through even in his commercial work. And it saddens me to say he 'was' because Wrake passed away Sunday after losing...
- 10/23/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Why Watch? The use of old Dick and Jane cutouts makes for the basis of a very odd story about greed, death, and getting what you wish for. This might be the most sinister the childhood pair have every been portrayed, but it works perfectly – blending the familiar imagery with a discordant fantasy story about an idol they cut out of a rabbit who can turn houseflies into things they can sell. See Dick and Jane Get Greedy. What Will It Cost? Just 8 minutes of your time. Does it get better any better than that? Check out Rabbit for yourself: Rabbit (2005) Written and Directed by: Run Wrake Run Wrake “Rabbit” by vibliographer Trust us. You have time for more short films.
- 3/18/2011
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Just over two years back I fell completely and madly in love with the work of animator Run Wrake, specifically his surreal and stream of consciousness piece Rabbit, which was then screening as part of the Worldwide Short Film Festival. And so, it was with much chagrin that earlier today I realized that Wrake had since completed an entirely new piece and released it for free online viewing in 2008 and I’d missed it entirely. Well, thank god for the Fantasia Festival in Montreal for setting me right on this one. It’s called The Control Master and I’m including the trailer below the break. It is typically brilliant.
- 7/6/2009
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
2008 is an exceptionally good year for The Animation Show, the traveling short-features tourney now curated solely by King Of The Hill/Beavis And Butt-head mastermind Mike Judge. The only problem is that it makes its 2007 program, now on DVD as The Animation Show Volume 3, look weak by comparison. The currently touring Animation Show 4 features several advanced works by animators still working out their kinks as of Volume 3. The new show also focuses on short, snappy, clever pieces; the latest DVD, by contrast, is more about longer works that showcase animation's incredible range, but disappoint in terms of coherent story. Volume 3 does have some distinct winners: Run Wrake's "Rabbit" is a terrifically creepy morality tale about two greedy children and a magical idol, told in a style reminiscent of an old Fun With Dick And Jane book. Bill Plympton contributes two shorts, but his eerie...
- 6/4/2008
- by Tasha Robinson
- avclub.com
ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands -- The Rotterdam International Film Festival's short film prizes were handed out Monday to Roy Villevoye's Beginnings (the Netherlands) and animated films Rabbit by Run Wrake (U.K.) and Who I Am and What I Want by David Shrigley and Chris Shepherd (U.K.). The Prix UIP Rotterdam short film nominee for the European Film Awards went to Meander by Joke Liberge (Belgium). The second edition of the Tiger Awards competition for short film was comprised of 30 films, with the majority having their world, international or European premiere during the event.
- 1/31/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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