Difference between revisions of "Animateka International Animated Film Festival"

Revision as of 23:51, 4 April 2023

Špela Čadež's exhibition Mali Svetovi (Small Worlds), a glimpse into the making of animated films, International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Animateka International Animated Film Festival, 2009. Špela Čadež's exhibition Small Worlds at the International Centre of Graphic Arts. Animateka International Animated Film Festival 2009

The Animateka International Animated Film Festival is a specialised competitive festival which focuses on Central and East European animated film production. It takes place annually since 2004 at the Kinodvor Cinema and at the Slovenian Cinematheque in Ljubljana during the second week of December. Animateka is organised by the 2 Reels - Association for Reanimation of Storytelling.

The festival includes several sections, depending on each year's edition, and also a rich programme of retrospectives, additional screenings, conferences, workshops, exhibitions and other events. The call for eligible animated films is usually open from May till September.

Background

Animateka's roots go back to the 1990s when the Slovenian Cinematheque introduced a special monthly programme (curated by Igor Prassel, who later became the director and the main selector of the Animateka festival) focusing on animated film.

VR/360°/GAMES@ANIMATEKA exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova with Igor Prassel, 2018.

Sections

Among the sections, 3 are competitive: the Competition Programme; Elephant in Competition; and European Young Talents Competition. The Competition Programme's focus on contemporary animated film production from Central and Eastern European countries garners Animateka a great deal of attention in the larger international context. The Elephant in Competition programme focuses on animated film production meant for young audiences and attracts huge international attention.

Festival awards

Each year, an international 5-member-jury, composed of artists, festival curators and/or scholars confers the main festival award and five special mentions (one from each member). The main festival award, the Animateka Grand Prix, goes to one or two selected works from the Competition Programme, whilst each member of the jury is able to confer a Special Mention to another film of his or her choice from the Competition Programme.

The jury composed of selected representatives from the audience bestows the Slovenian Animated Film Association Audience Award (to any film from the entire festival programme), while the children's jury grants the Elephant Award for the selected work from the Elephant in Competition Children's programme. A Special Mention is also given by a student jury.

Artist-in-residence programme

As its first guest, the Animateka residency programme hosted and presented Danijel Žeželj (Croatia/USA) in 2004. During the years that followed artists in resident included: Lars Fiske (Norway); M. S. Bastian (Switzerland); Koji Yamamura (Japan); Georges Schwizgebel (Switzerland); Matti Hagelberg (Finland); Priit Pärn (Estonia); Max Andersson (Sweden), a filmmaker and comics author (contributing to Stripburger magazine since 1999); Julie Doucet (Canada); Theodore Ushev (Bulgaria/Canada); Akinori Oishi (Japan); Rosto (The Netherlands); Joni Männistö (Finland); Caroline Sury (France) and Edmunds Jansons (Latvia). The graphic design for festival editions has been usually created by the artists-in-residence.

Animateka 2019 Festival trailer by Animateka on YouTube

Accompanying programme

Animateka also brings an abundant accompanying programme. It includes the AnimatekaPRO conference for professionals from the field, puppet performances, VR animations, concerts, workshops of animation, exhibitions of animation related drawings (at the premises of Kinodvor, sometimes also in cooperation and on the premises of the International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana). As Animateka hosts many authors of the films in competition as well as other guests, public talks, working breakfasts or midnight gatherings are organised mainly at Kinodvor Café.

AnimatekaPRO, Breakfast with authors at Stara Elektrarna - Old Power Station, 2019.

Summer programme

Since 2015, Animateka has run also the so-called Poletna Animateka, a summer programme of animated film screenings at the Metelkova museums platform or on Gornji trg, and a series of workshops of flip-book creation and pixelation technique events around town.

International activities

In 2010, the Animateka festival initiated the Cartoon East project which connects six regional festivals: Animafest Zagreb (Croatia), Animateka Ljubljana (Slovenia), anim'est Bucarest (Romania), Balkanima Belgrade (Serbia), Banja Luka International Animation Film Festival (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and FestAnča Žilina (Slovakia). The East European Animation Award is bestowed to one of the short films, nominated by each participating country. The first award went to Croatian artists Veljko Popović and Svjetlan Junaković for the film My Way.

16th Animateka is in full swing! by Animateka on YouTube

External links

Gallery

Animateka International Animated Film Festival poster, 2005

Animateka International Animated Film Festival poster, 2008

AnimatekaPRO, Breakfast with authors at Stara Elektrarna - Old Power Station, 2019.

Audience at Kinodvor Cinema, Animateka International Animated Film Festival, 2019.

Elephant programme for children at Kinodvor Cinema, Animateka International Animated Film Festival, 2019.

VR exhibition, Animateka International Animated Film Festival, 2019.

Young Talents at Slovenian Cinematheque, Animateka International Animated Film Festival, 2019.

Audio visual concert Deceiving Light, harpist Eduardo Raon, visuals by Akaša Bojič, Neja Engelsberger and Luka Umek during the closing event of Animateka, 2009

Program of animated shorts for children, Slonov tekmovalni I [The Elephant in competition I], Animateka, 2009

Program of screenings of animated shorts for children - Slon [Elephant], Animateka International Animated Film Festival, 2009

Program for children - Slon [Elephant], Animateka, closing night, 2009

Katja Tukiainen exhibition Good Heavens II (Hyvät Hyssykät II) at KUD Gallery, Animateka, 2009

Audiovisual Concert: Katalena Animated (Avdio-vizualni koncert: Animirana Katalena), Katalena concert at Stara Elektrarna - Old Power Station, Animateka Festival, 2009.

Public talks, working breakfasts or midnight gatherings with the festival guests (around 60 guests in the 2009 edition) are organised at Kinodvor Café. Meet the Filmmakers, Animateka, 2009

Opening of Matti Hagelberg's exhibition, Kaleidoscopic pictures of reality, Animateka Festival, 2009

Opening night of the Animateka International Animated Film Festival, 2009

Špela Čadež's exhibition Mali Svetovi (Small Worlds), a glimpse into the making of animated films, International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Animateka International Animated Film Festival, 2009.

Stop motion retrospective, Animateka International Animated Film Festival, 2009

Sales booth at the annual Animateka International Animated Film Festival, a specialised competitive festival which focuses on Central and East European animated film production. 2009

Animateka International Animated Film Festival has 9 sections, offering a diverse and all-encompassing look at the breadth of contemporary animated films. Sales booth, 2009

Animateka animation workshop, over the period of 20 hours young people created an animated film, 2009

Animateka International Animated Film Festival staged a week long animation production workshop for children and young people at Oton Župančič Library, 2009

Animateka animation workshop for children, under the mentorship of Delphine Hermans and Louise-Marie Colon, 2009

Animateka International Animated Film Festival poster, 2010

Animateka International Animated Film Festival poster by Theodore Ushev, 2013.

Contemporary German Animated Film Exhibition at Match Gallery, Animateka International Animated Film Festival, 2014.

Ewok concert at Klub Gromka, Animateka International Animated Film Festival, 2014.

Animateka International Animated Film Festival poster by Akinori Oishi, 2014.

Workshop at Tobačna 001 Cultural Centre, Animateka International Animated Film Festival, 2014.

Animateka International Animated Film Festival poster, 2015.

Animateka International Animated Film Festival poster, 2016.

The exhibition by Animateka's artist in residence, comic artist, illustrator, animator and musician Caroline Sury at Kinodvor Cinema, 2017.

Igor Prassel at Animateka International Animated Film Festival, 2017.

... further results

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 {{Article
-| status       = WRITING TOPROOFREAD NIFERTIK!
+| status       = NIFERTIK PHOTO
-| maintainer   = Denis Valič
+| maintainer   = Ziga Brdnik
 }}
@@ Line 8: / Line 8: @@
 | name               = Animateka International Animated Film Festival
 | local name         = Animateka - mednarodni festival animiranega filma
-| image              =
+| logo               = Animateka International Animated Film Festival (logo).jpg
-| street             = Kersnikova 4
+| street             = Tugomerjeva 8
 | town               = SI-1000 Ljubljana
 | website            = http://www.animateka.si/
 | email              =
-| telephone          = 386 (0) 59 97 17 47
+| telephone          = 386 (0) 5 997 1747
 | fax                =
-| founded by         =
-| founded by 2       =
-| founded by 3       =
 | organised by       = 2 Reels - Association for Reanimation of Storytelling
 | organised by 2     = Kinodvor Cinema
-| organised by 3     =
+| frequency          = Annual (2020 edition took place online)
-| managed by         =
+| dates and duration = December, 1st week, 7 days
-| managed by 2       =
+| duration weeks      = 49,50 (2012) 49,50 (2013) 50 (2014)
-| managed by 3       =
+| festival dates      = 7.12.2015 - 13.12.2015, 5.12.2016 - 11.12.2016,  4.12.2017 - 10.12.2017, 3.12.2018 - 9.12.2018, 2.12.2019 - 8.12.2019, 30.11.2020 - 9.12.2020, 29.11.2021 - 5.12.2021, 28.11.2022 - 4.12.2022, 27.11.2023 - 3.12.2023
-| published by       =
-| published by 2     =
-| published by 3     =
-| opening hours      =
-| frequency          = Annual
-| dates and duration = 2nd week in December, 7 days
 | contacts     = {{Contact
    | name        = Igor Prassel
@@ Line 37: / Line 28: @@
    | website     =
    | email       = igor.prassel@animateka.si
-   | telephone   = 386 (0) 31 83 64 31
+   | telephone   = 386 (0) 31 836 431
    | fax         =
-   }}{{Contact
+   }}
-   | name        = Urška Jež
+{{Contact
-   | role        = Executive producer
+   | name        = Katja Hohler
+   | role        = Executive Producer
    | street      =
    | town        =
    | website     =
-   | email       = urska.jez@animateka.si
+   | email       = katja.hohler@animateka.si
-   | telephone   = 386 (0) 30 30 28 97
+   | telephone   = 386 (0) 41 572 837
    | fax         =
-   }}{{Contact
+   }}
-   | name        = Hana Repše
+{{Contact
-   | role        = Head of Young audience programme
+   | name        = Petra Meterc
+   | role        = Public relations, Promotion
    | street      =
    | town        =
    | website     =
-   | email       = slon@animateka.si
+   | email       = petra.meterc@animateka.si
-   | telephone   = 386 (0) 51 87 48 45
+   | telephone   =
    | fax         =
    }}
+{{Contact
+  | name        = Andreja Goetz
+  | role        = Slon, Young Audience Programme coordinator
+  | street      =
+  | town        =
+  | website     =
+  | email       = andreja.goetz@animateka.si
+  | telephone   =
+  | fax         =
+  }}
+|accounts=
+http://twitter.com/Animateka
+https://www.facebook.com/animateka/
+https://www.youtube.com/user/animateka2010/videos
+}}
+{{Teaser|
+{{Image|Animateka 2009 Small Worlds.jpg}}
+{{TeaserImgDesc|Špela Čadež's exhibition ''Small Worlds'' at the International Centre of Graphic Arts. Animateka International Animated Film Festival 2009}}
+The [[Animateka International Animated Film Festival]] is a specialised competitive festival which focuses on Central and East European animated film production. It takes place annually since [[Established::2004]] at the [[Kinodvor Cinema]] and at the [[Slovenian Cinematheque]] in Ljubljana during the second week of December. Animateka is organised by the [[2 Reels - Association for Reanimation of Storytelling]].
 }}
+The festival includes several sections, depending on each year's edition, and also a rich programme of retrospectives, additional screenings, conferences, workshops, exhibitions and other events. The call for eligible animated films is usually open from May till September.
+==Background==
+Animateka's roots go back to the 1990s when the [[Slovenian Cinematheque]] introduced a special monthly programme (curated by [[Igor Prassel]], who later became the director and the main selector of the Animateka festival) focusing on animated film.
+{{Image|Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova 2018 Animateka International Animated Film Festival.jpg}}
+==Sections==
+Among the sections, 3 are competitive: the Competition Programme; Elephant in Competition; and European Young Talents Competition. The Competition Programme's focus on contemporary animated film production from Central and Eastern European countries garners Animateka a great deal of attention in the larger international context. The Elephant in Competition programme focuses on animated film production meant for young audiences and attracts huge international attention.
-{{Teaser|
+==Festival awards==
-[[Animateka International Animated Film Festival]] is a specialised competitive festival which focuses on Central and East European animated film production. It was established in [[Established::2004]] but it's root extends 6 years further in the past when the [[Slovenian Cinematheque]] introduced a special monthly programme focusing on animated film. Today Animateka is produced by the [[2 Reels - Association for Reanimation of Storytelling]] and [[Kinodvor Cinema]]. The festival programme is taking place at the [[Kinodvor Cinema]] and at the [[Slovenian Cinematheque]] in Ljubljana each year in the second week of December.
+Each year, an international 5-member-jury, composed of artists, festival curators and/or scholars confers the main festival award and five special mentions (one from each member). The main festival award, the Animateka Grand Prix, goes to one or two selected works from the Competition Programme, whilst each member of the jury is able to confer a Special Mention to another film of his or her choice from the Competition Programme.
-}}
-===Festival sections===
+The jury composed of selected representatives from the audience bestows the [[Slovenian Animated Film Association]] Audience Award (to any film from the entire festival programme), while the children's jury grants the Elephant Award for the selected work from the Elephant in Competition Children's programme. A Special Mention is also given by a student jury.
-The Animateka International Animated Film Festival has 9 sections and two of them are competitive. The main festival section, the Competition Programme, is focusing on contemporary animated film production in Central and Eastern European countries. Because of that the Animateka festival is receiving a great attention also in the larger international context although the much older and bigger Animafest Zagreb is taking place near. Even a greater international attention is attracting the second competitive section, The Elephant in Competition, introduced with the last edition of the festival in 2009. Namely, The Elephant in competition is focusing on animated film production meant for the young audience. The section existed already before but as before said just last year became competitive.
+==Artist-in-residence programme==
-The Eastern and Central European Panorama section is a kind of an extension of the main competitive section as it broadens it's overview on Central and Eastern European animated film production. With it's European Student Panorama section Animateka festival is giving a special focus also on the animated film production by European film schools and art academies. As it's name already explains the Best of the Rest section is presenting a carefully selected programme from other parts of the world, bringing the attention to well known directors and awarded films. The Jury Programme section is one of the great peculiarities of the Animateka festival. It gives to each member of the main international jury a possibility to direct the attention of the audience to a certain director or to a certain tendency in the past or contemporary animated film production. In the past years the Animateka festival screened several amazing personal retrospectives in that section, like Koji Yamamura retrospective, Georges Schwizgebel retrospective and Osvaldo Cavandoli retrospective.
+As its first guest, the Animateka residency programme hosted and presented Danijel Žeželj (Croatia/USA) in 2004. During the years that followed artists in resident included: Lars Fiske (Norway); M. S. Bastian (Switzerland); Koji Yamamura (Japan); Georges Schwizgebel (Switzerland); Matti Hagelberg (Finland); Priit Pärn (Estonia); Max Andersson (Sweden), a filmmaker and comics author (contributing to [[Stripburger]] magazine since 1999); Julie Doucet (Canada); Theodore Ushev (Bulgaria/Canada); Akinori Oishi (Japan); Rosto (The Netherlands); Joni Männistö (Finland); Caroline Sury (France) and Edmunds Jansons (Latvia). The graphic design for festival editions has been usually created by the artists-in-residence.
-The most extensive festival section is the Special Programme section as it incorporates several under-sections. Those undersections are usually retrospectives, overviews of certain national animated film productions or festival programmes, regional focuses, etc. In the past years there were some excellent programmes like the Stop Motion retrospective, focuses on Polish, Basque, Norwegian, Canadian, Yugoslav and Finnish animated film production, a special program on animated films linked to the human rights subject, etc.
+{{YouTube|xi_w7iQzfWE}}
-A special section is dedicated also to feature length animated films. Some of those films are later included in the Slovene [[Art Cinema Network| Art Cinema Network's]] distribution. Last of the Animateka festival's sections is also one of the most popular among the audience - this is the The Elephant section that brings a carefully selected educational animated film programme meant for schools and families with children.
+==Accompanying programme==
+Animateka also brings an abundant accompanying programme. It includes the AnimatekaPRO conference for professionals from the field, puppet performances, VR animations, concerts, workshops of animation, exhibitions of animation related drawings (at the premises of Kinodvor, sometimes also in cooperation and on the premises of the [[International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana]]). As Animateka hosts many authors of the films in competition as well as other guests, public talks, working breakfasts or midnight gatherings are organised mainly at [[Kinodvor Cinema|Kinodvor]] Café.
-Each years the Animateka festival brings also a rich and diverse Accompanying Programme. In includes puppet shows, exhibitions, concerts, workshops and meetings between artists, scholars, curators and the audience.
+{{Image|Animateka Festival 2019 AnimatekaPRO.jpg}}
-===Festival awards and contests===
+==Summer programme==
+Since 2015, Animateka has run also the so-called Poletna Animateka, a summer programme of animated film screenings at the Metelkova museums platform or on Gornji trg, and a series of workshops of flip-book creation and pixelation technique events around town.
-Each year the international five members jury, composed by artists, curators and/or scholars is conferring the main festival award and five special mentions (one by each member). The main festival award, the Animateka Grand Prix, goes to one or two selected works from the Competition programme, while each member of the jury has also the right to confer the Special mention to another film of his choice from the Competition programme. In the past years the award went to films like ''Four'' (Š tyri) by Ivana Šebestova, ''NightStill'' by Elke Groen, ''Homeland'' by Juan de Dios Marfil Atienze, ''Crocodile'' by Kaspar Jancis and many others.
-The jury composed by the selected representatives from audience is giving away the Maestro Audience Award (to any film from the whole festival programme), while the children’s jury is granting the NLB Vita Award for the selected work from the Elephant children's programme. Among the receivers of the two above mentioned awards are films ''Log Jam: The Snake'' by Alexei Alexev, ''Vasilisa'' by Darina Shmidt, ''Tôt ou tard'' by Jadwiga  Kowalska, ''Land of the Heads'' by Céderic Louis and Claude Barras, and others.
+==International activities==
+In 2010, the Animateka festival initiated the ''Cartoon East'' project which connects six regional festivals: Animafest Zagreb (Croatia), Animateka Ljubljana (Slovenia), anim'est Bucarest (Romania), Balkanima Belgrade (Serbia), Banja Luka International Animation Film Festival (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and FestAnča Žilina (Slovakia). The East European Animation Award is bestowed to one of the short films, nominated by each participating country. The first award went to Croatian artists Veljko Popović and Svjetlan Junaković for the film ''My Way''.
-For the second year the Animateka festival programme is including also a special contest web and mobile device based animations called AnimaWeb.
+{{YouTube|jcFe2TlYtgM}}
 ==See also==
+* [[2 Reels - Association for Reanimation of Storytelling]]
 * [[Kinodvor Cinema]]
 * [[Slovenian Cinematheque]]
+* [[Izolanima - Slovene Animation Festival]] (currently defunct)
-* [[Art Cinema Network]]
-* [[Animation film course]]
 ==External links==
+* [http://www.animateka.si/ Animateka International Animated Film Festival website]
+* [http://www.animateka.si/2019/assets/Animateka_2019_Regulation.pdf Regulations for the 2019 Animateka competition] (PDF)
+* [http://animaweb.animateka.si/ AnimaWeb contest website]
+* [http://www.animafest.hr/en Animafest Zagreb festival website]
-* [http://www.animatekafestival.org/ Animateka International Animated Film Festival website]
+{{gallery}}
+[[Category:Festivals]]
+[[Category:Festivals in December]]
 [[Category:Film]]
+[[Category:Animation]]
 [[Category:Film festivals]]
 [[Category:Animation festivals]]
-[[Category:Festivals]]
-[[Category:Workshop organisers]]
+[[Category:Film workshops]]
-[[Category:Film workshop organisers]]
+[[Category:Workshops]]
-[[Category:Course organisers]]
-[[Category:Film course organisers]]
+[[Category:Updated 2019]]
-[[Category:Animation]]
+[[Category:Updated 2020]]
+[[Category:Film_courses,_workshops_and_residencies]]