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…
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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 »James Benning’s Digital Debut at REDCAT
For more than 30 years, experimental filmmaker and CalArts faculty member James Benning has captured moments and places through his signature long, singular takes on 16 mm film. However, on…
Continue reading »2009 National Film Registry Selections Include Two by CalArtians
On Dec. 30, 2009, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced its annual selection of 25 motion pictures that will be preserved as cultural, artistic and/or historical treasures as part…
Continue reading »Alums Michael Polish, David Mullen and Kubilay Uner Hold Workshop at Bijou Theater on Friday
Michael Polish (Art BFA 92), M.David Mullen (Film/Video MFA 91) and Kubilay Uner (Music MFA 91) returned to CalArts on Friday afternoon as guest lecturers in the Bijou Theater, taking…
Continue reading »CalArts Student Animator at Work on Disney’s Princess and the Frog
by Maija Burnett Associate Director, Character Animation Program at CalArts Disney’s The Princess and the Frog opens nationwide today (Dec. 11) and features the work of many CalArtians, including current…
Continue reading »Film Scholar Tom Gunning Screens Rare Films at the Bijou
The Unchanging Sea (D.W. Griffith, 1910) Film theorist and scholar Tom Gunning visits CalArts tomorrow evening (Tuesday) to lecture on the topic of Structuring Strategies at the Bijou Theater at…
Continue reading »CalArts Grad Directs Carney’s ‘Love Me Chase Me: The Death and Life of Mr. Green’
The LA-based band Carney just released the first single “Love Me Chase Me” from their upcoming Interscope Records full-length debut, tapping CalArts grad Timothy Garrett (Art BFA 08) to direct…
Continue reading »CalArts Animator in Nickelodeon 2009 Animation Festival
Value Blind from Tahnee Gehm. Tahnee Gehm (Film/Video BFA 12), a CalArts character animation student, has a film currently being featured in the Nickelodeon Animation Festival 2009. Her black-and-white short,…
Continue reading »Tim Burton Retrospective Opens at MOMA
A major retrospective of artist-director Tim Burton (Film/Video 79) opened yesterday at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, featuring more than 700 examples of sketchbooks, concept art, drawings,…
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