The 2018 Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation
The 2018 Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation
The 2018 Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation
“An annual mind-melding cinematic spectacle not to be missed.” —Anthology Film Archives
"Eyeworks fuses the finest boundary-obliterating animations from past masters and contemporary virtuosos. An annual mind-melding cinematic spectacle not to be missed.”
—John Klacsmann, Anthology Film Archives
"The Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation is an indispensable survey of the genre. Every year Alexander Stewart and Lilli Carré amaze with programming that brings together new talent, less-known work by established masters, and forgotten gems that deserve to be seen in a new light."
—Josh Mabe, Cine-File.info
The Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, called “essential viewing every year” by Cine-File.info, returns to REDCAT for the third year. Founded in 2010, Eyeworks is a curated annual festival that showcases abstract animation and unconventional character animation. The Eyeworks Festival at REDCAT features two programs of short films, and a solo retrospective screening of work from the 2018 festival guest, Japanese filmmaker Naoyuki Tsuji. The two curated lineups of short films will include classic and recently restored films, works from rising names in the field, and premieres of new works. Filmmakers in the 2018 festival include Maureen Selwood, Oliver Laric, Takeshi Murata, Larry Cuba, and Jon Rafman.
In person: Naoyuki Tsuji
Working with a distinctive drawn-and-erase technique, Naoyuki Tsuji’s dreamlike films are a moody blend of myth, fantasy, and horror. Evoking Deren, Kentridge, and Miyazaki, his work moves with a stream-of-consciousness fluidity, depicting scenarios that are simultaneously mesmerizing and disturbing. A schoolboy inhales a drawing, and is transformed into a cloud that consumes his classmates. A woman in a car crash is awakened by licks from the moon. Reflections a pond turn wicked and take on a life of their own. Tsuji’s films are filled with transformations of bodies, dreamy violence, dark eroticism, and an elegant drifting logic all their own. His work has been presented at the Image Forum Festival, Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Media City Film Festival, Images Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, and the Ottowa International Animation Festival.
Program 1, 3:00 PM, 64 mins
Mary Beams, Paul Revere is Here, 1976
Mengxi Yang, Ai Can, 2018
Larry Cuba, Calculated Movements, 1985
Takeshi Murata, Donuts, 2018
Jon Rafman, Dream Journal #2, 2018
Cheng-Hsu Chung, Adorable, 2018
Lucy Raven, The Deccan Trap, 2015
Lisze Bechtold, Moon Breath Beat, 1980
Dane Picard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are George, 1992
James J.A. Mercer, Landfill, 2014
Program 2, 5:30 PM, 58 mins
Oliver Laric, Betweenness, 2018
Maureen Selwood, This is Just To Say: A Poem and A Reply, 1987
Theo Chin, Pinakothek, 2018
Barry Doupé, Bubble Boing, 2017
Faith Hubley, Tall Time Tales, 1992
Monique Renault, A La Votre, 1973
Matthew Thurber, Ecto Petrol Patrol, 2018
Maria Lassnig, The Ballad of Maria Lassnig, 1992
Sebastian Buerkner, Tosse Not My Soule, 2015
Program 3, 8:30 PM
Films by Naoyuki Tsuji, with the filmmaker in person.
70 mins, all work shown on 16mm
A Feather Stare at the Dark, 2003
Looking at a Cloud, 2005
Children of Shadows, 2006
The Place Where We Were, 2008
Zephyr, 2009
Fragments, 2016
Mountain, 2017
Curated by Lilli Carré, Alexander Stewart, Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud as part of the Jack H. Skirball Series. Funded in part by the Ostrovsky Family Fund.
Date/Time | G | M/ST | CA |
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SAT 11/3 3:00 pm | $12 | $9 | $6 |
SAT 11/3 5:30 pm | $12 | $9 | $6 |
SAT 11/3 8:30 pm | $12 | $9 | $6 |
G - General Audience
M - REDCAT Members
ST - Students
CA - CalArts Students/Faculty/Staff