Animation Film-program & Information

Opening Event: Monday, 05.08.2019 09:30pm

AWG - My Favorite Tree 2016, 2 min

Anna Vasof - Down to Earth 2014, 7 min

Paul Wenninger - Trespass 2012, 11 min

Closing Event: Saturday, 17.08.2019 09:30pm

ASIFA Workshopgroup, 2 min

Anna Vasof - Things and Wonders 2227, 5 min

Hardi Vollmer - Domestic Fitless 2011, 13 min

Anna Vasof is an architect and media artist. Born in 1985, she studied architecture at

the University of Thessaly (2010) in Greece and Transmedia Art (2014) at the University

of Applied Arts in Vienna. Since 2004 her videos and short movies have been presented

in several festivals, some of them winning distinctions. She’s currently writing a Ph.D.

thesis about an animation technique that she develops and at the same time working on

designing and building innovative mechanisms for producing critical and narrative

videos, actions and installations.

Artist Statement:

My work is accessible in a universal way via its wit and mischief. It is grounded in

genuine experimentation of the core mechanisms of motion and time based art. I go to

the heart of every question and start from zero, reinventing core premises with my own

perspective. My Non-Stop Stop-Motion works reinvent a contemporary expanded

cinema and deal with the poetic mechanics of persistence of vision. My works with

everyday objects (shoes, brooms, pots etc.) deal with social paradoxes and let us see a

familiar world from a different perspective.

Education

• 2016 - Doctoral Canditate in Artistic Research PhD in Non-Stop Stop-Motion

Cinematography(University of Applied Arts Vienna)

• 2014 - Graduation as Media Artist with distinction (mag. art)

• 2010 - Graduation as Architect with distinction (diploma engineer)

Grants and Awards

• 2018 - Peter Wilde Award for Most Technically Innovative Film in Ann Arbor Film

• 2017 - Performancepreis H13

• 2017 - Kunstlerhaus-Hubert Sielecki Preis 2017 for "Things and Wonders 2022"

• 2016 - Hubert Sielecki-Prize for the Austrian Animationsfilm in Tricky Women Festival

• 2015 - Audience Prize RISC 2015

• 2014 - Main Prize - ASIFA AUSTRIA AWARD / BEST AUSTRIAN ANIMATION 2014

• 2014 - Nominated for OE1 Talentstipendium 2014

• 2012 - Annual Serving Cocktail Robot Award for the machine T.R.E.E. in Roboexotica

(Festival for Cocktailrobotics in Vienna, Austria)

• 2010 - Representation of University of Thessaly in Archiprix 2011 at the MIT with the

diploma work Under Construction

• 2008 - Price of Human rights for the movie No entry in Camera Zizanio festival

(Olymbia,Greece)

• 2008 - Representation of Greece in Word expo the one minutes with the video Run for

construction

• 2008 - 1st price in Bene competion Vienna with the video Ben E.

• 2008 - Scholarship from Greek film center for the program first step

• 2008 - Representation of Greece in the Biennale of young artists Puglia 2008 with the

video Artur’s Klaket and Animal’s War

• 2006 - Honorable price in Crash Fest with the video Animal’s war

• 2004 - 2nd price in the festival Belle art in category video art with the video Home

Homo

• 2000 - 1st price in the national Student drawing contest in Greece

Paul Wenninger

Geboren 1966 in Wien, ist freischaffender Tänzer und Autor choreografischer Werke sowie

Filmemacher mit Fokus auf Pixilation und Animation. Seit 1999 ist er künstlerischer Leiter

des Kabinett ad Co., einer Arbeitsplattform für KünstlerInnen verschiedenster

Kunstrichtungen, um interdisziplinäre Projekte mit Fokus auf den Körper zu realisieren.

Arbeiten mit verschiedenen Choreografen und Companien, u.a. in Frankreich mit der Cie.

Catherine Diverrès am Centre Chorégraphique National de Rennes et Bretagne.

Seine Arbeiten wurden international gezeigt und mit Preisen ausgezeichnet.

Born 1966 in Vienna. Freelance dancer, author of choregraphical pieces, and film maker with

a focus on pixilation and animation. Since 1999 he is the artistic director of Kabinett ad Co., a

working platform for interdisciplinary projects with a focus on the body.

Collaborations with various choreographers and companies, e.g. in France with Cie. Catherine

Diverrès at Centre Choreographique National de Rennes et Bretagne. His works have been

shown internationally and received several awards.

www.kabinettadco.at

Hardi Volmer

Born in 1957 in Pärnu Estonia

Studies:

Graduated from The Tallinn Art University as a designer of stage and theatre. Since 1984

he has directed and designed multitude of animated and puppet films and has made

stage solutions for more that 50 Estonian theatre performances.

Domestic Fitless

2011 | Author film | stereo | colour |

A young and strong human body is mother nature’s piece of art. But should everything it

faces become art as well? And if all art is only an imitation, then what does the world of

fine arts imitate if some its closets are full of hidden 3D ghosts?

Our Favorite Tree

Duration: 1:55 Idea and Animation by: Viktoria Quan, Yolanda Quan, Magdalena Wielander, Felicitas Marti, Nicole Sprung, Sophie Kuttner

On Piano: Defne Saydam

Debussy, Deux Arabesques Nr:1

Age: 14 to 15 Years

ASIFA Workshopgroup Austria

Instructors: Roland Schütz, James Clay

Postproduction: Richard Schütz

Assistant: Elisabeth Fink

produced at: BI am Himmelhof Vienna

supported by: Austrian Embassy Tokyo

Production: Masc Foundation Vienna © 2016

Presantation of selected artworks from the viennese gallery MASC FOUNDATION via Virtual Reality Glasses

Projection of 180° panoramas of several artworks from MASC FOUNDATION

ASIFA Workshopgroup

Monitor with headsets

Selected animationfilms from children and youths

AWG

The workshop groups started in 1971. Each year, children around the world, in 23

countries and on 4 continents create animations based on a common theme. The ASIFA

Workshops Group (AWG) is a group of artist-teachers who believe that animation can

help children express their creativity and tell their own stories.

There are over 30 ASIFA children workshops throughout the world, where children are

aided in making animated films. Instructors are animators from different countries, and

some of the productions are collaboration between several nations. New generations are

thus introduced to animation from the inside, whether they become animators

themselves, or a selective audience. And they are introduced to international

understanding in the process.

www.asifa-awg.com

Roland Schütz

was born in 1962 in Schwanenstadt (Austria). In 1980 I began to study painting in the Master

Class of Maria Lassnig. After 1983 I was also involved in experimental animation filmmaking

at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Having completed my Master‘s degree, I

continued working in painting at the Apostelhof (Vienna), an artists‘ collective. In 1990 I was

invited to take part in the art project “Young Art in Europe”, which took place in Hannover

(Germany). The international exchange with other European artists through working and

living together had a big influence on my future work. Back in Vienna in the early nineties, I

started to organize exhibitions and was part of several artists‘ collectives such as:

cooparations / foundings:

1985 ASIFA Austria (Animationsfilm)

1988 Apostelhof (Atelierhaus)

1990 Animationsfilme mit Kindern/Jugendlichen (gem. J. Clay&M. Staudinger)

1993 SCHÜTZHELFSTAUDINGER & helmhart, Film/Video

1994 Art ate itself (AAIS) (gem. Muntean/Rosenblum, Franz/Goldgruber)

1995 Bricks&Kicks (gem. Muntean/Rosenblum)

1996 SC MASC (gem. Richard Schütz&Kurt Mayr)

Asifa Workshopgroup (Animationsfilm)

1999 MASC Foundation 39DADA (Arno Schmid)

2003 GRUNDSTEIN

2006 COLLECTION DICHTER (gem. Grundstein)

2007 Kunsttankstelle Ottakring

Couple 2017 Drawing - Ink on paper, 30x40cm

Artist Run Space, www.masc.at