Animation Screening Program

Animation Screening Program

Saturday June 8  2:45 pm, 3:15 pm, 3:45 pm, 4:15 pm, 4:45 pm

Barn Classroom, Coutts Centre

Program of short films:

Haiku 7 – Pulse by Lyle Pisio

Twilight by Richard Reeves

Instant Structures by Arielle McCuaig and Craig Storm

e:e:e:e:e: by Brandon Blommaert

Broken Communication by Greg Doble

Birdcalls by Malcolm Sutherland

Lyle Pisio is a Calgary-based artist, musician, and animator. He has been playing saxophone and bass since the early 1980’s and is a founding member of the free-improvisational bands ‘Street of Crocodiles’ and ‘tokyosexwhale’. He bought his first camera in 1999, and has been making animation ever since. In 2007 Lyle quit his dream job as an instrument repair technician to fulfill his fantasy of working full-time as an animator. To this day, he is rarely seen outside his basement where he spends his time filming, carving new puppets, making sets, and feeding his cats.

Richard Reeves explores abstract animation as a visual music by drawing both sound and picture onto film. His films have screened at festivals around the world. Richard often instructs workshops and has collaborated with artists for live performances involving dancing human projection screens, 16mm violin, interactive animation installations, online animation jams and large outdoor projections. He is a spinner of zoetropes, looper of loops, light beam projector magic, time traveler and storyteller, exploring film as a space-time art form.

Craig Storm and Arielle McCuaig are artists and musicians living in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Arielle McCuaig was the 2015/2016 Chris J Melnychuk Scholarship Winner at Quickdraw Animation Society (QAS), where both Craig and Arielle practice animation. Arielle also now teaches Animation Fundamentals at QAS. Their short film “Instant Structures” was created during the four-day 2018 Animation Lockdown at QAS, where it was awarded the David Ratzlaff Award for Best Experimental Film.

Brandon Blommaert is an artist and animator residing in Montréal, Quebec. Born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, he graduated from the Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD) in 2005, where he studied in the Print Media program. While at ACAD he discovered animation through the Quickdraw Animation Society. He quickly became obsessed with the art of moving images and has been involved in the creation of animated work since 2004. His enthusiasm led him to the creation of a festival devoted to the screening of short animated independent films by artists from around the world. The festival, Giant Incandescent Resonating Animation Festival, is now the biggest animation festival in Western Canada. In 2008 Brandon relocated to Montreal to take part in the National Film Board of Canada’s Hothouse program for young animators.

Greg Doble is an animator and illustrator born and raised in Canada. Since graduating from the Alberta College of Art and Design with a BFA in Media Arts in 2011, Doble has moved to Montreal, QC, where he currently works as an illustrator and creates short animated films. Although often recognizable by its bright, comedic and playful nature, Doble’s work occasionally pivots to take his audience down a darker and more abstract journey towards self-reflection.

Malcolm Sutherland is a director and animator living in Quebec. He discovered animation while studying printmaking at the Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD), and the animation bug bit him hard. Over a dozen years later, it hasn’t let up. For work or pleasure, animation is Malcolm’s true love; he has directed, animated, and designed for short films, feature films, television series, television commercials, web commercials, and music videos