REDCAT launches its eighth season tonight with the world premiere of Rain Coloring Forest, an evocative multimedia performance conceived by legendary choreographer and artist Sardono W. Kusumo and celebrated lighting…
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Hats Off to Annie Award Winners!
The awards season cavalcade continued over the weekend with the presentation of the Annie Awards, the highest honors in animation. The winners included CalArts alumni Pete Docter (Film/Video BFA 90),…
Continue reading »Filmmakers from CalArts with Seven Entries in Rotterdam Festival
The Institute is once again well-represented at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, one of the most adventurous, experimentally inclined stops on the world festival circuit. The 39th annual edition of…
Continue reading »Meanwhile, Next Door in Park City at Slamdance…
This year’s edition of the Slamdance Film Festival is featuring a trio of animated shorts by Calartians: Deux Regards, by Minkyu Kim (Film/Video BFA 09) and Kang Min Kim (Film/Video…
Continue reading »Jason Tippet’s Thompson Screens at Sundance
The award-winning short Thompson, by Jason Tippet (Film/Video BFA 08), opens at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival today. The film, which is shown as part of the Documentary Showcase, is…
Continue reading »Up Voted Best Animated Feature in Fourth Consecutive Golden Globes Win for Disney/Pixar
Another awards ceremony, another best animated feature film prize for the Disney/Pixar creative juggernaut. Pixar’s latest accolade was for Up, the no.1 animated movie of 2009, at the 67th Golden…
Continue reading »Chouinard Alum Allen Ruppersberg Exhibition on View at SMMoA
The Santa Monica Museum of Art is currently presenting Allen Ruppersberg: You and Me or The Art of Give and Take, an exhibition that features two new interactive installations by…
Continue reading »The E.A.R. Unit at this Year’s Carlsbad Music Fest
The above video is a performance of “The Light Within” by the E.A.R. at REDCAT in L.A. last year. Click here if you cannot see the video. The California E.A.R….
Continue reading »Rick and Steve’s CalArts Beginnings
Q. Allan Brocka’s (Film/Video MFA 01) stop-motion animated sitcom Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World is back on U.K. channel E4 for its second season….
Continue reading »CalArts Returns to the Fringe
A contingent of School of Theater students, faculty and alumni led by Jon Gottlieb, the head of the school’s Sound Design Program, is in Scotland again this year to take…
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