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Jiří Šalamoun – Maxidog in Animation

In the case of the distinctive graphic designer Jiří Šalamoun (1935), it is not only his completed works that are interesting, but also the process of their production itself. And this process is one of the focuses of the exhibition aiming to present a wider reflection of Šalamoun’s film work – unlike other “big” exhibitions mapping his freelance work. Apart from his famous series and short films, our exhibition focuses on his less-known work for television and live-action films.

When you talk about Jiří Šalamoun and his animation work, Maxipes Fík naturally overshadows everything else. But it is a shame because as a graphic artist, Jiří Šalamoun collaborated on six animated shorts. The festival’s film and exhibition programme will not forget to draw attention to Šalamoun’s significant “interventions” into live-action films represented by animated title sequences and posters (e.g. How Poets are Enjoying their Lives). We would like to present Šalamoun’s variability and often surprising collaboration that characterise his work.

The exhibition will run till July 9th.

Loutka žije!

Last year’s Anifilm introduced a short selection of new Czech film puppets and decorations. It was a sort of a prequel to this year’s big exhibition that reflects an indisputable fact. Puppet animation is thriving in the Czech Republic. And it does so on several levels – short, student and also feature films as well as serials and internet animations.

Young as well as established filmmakers follow the tradition, keep it alive and positively exploit it. But they also look for new methods and combinations with other techniques. And recently, string puppeteering, which teeters on the edge of regular theatre, started to look for its way back to the spotlight.

The exhibition will run till July 9th.

Italian Animation

The technique of drawn animation is one of the most classical, requiring 12 to 24 drawings per second. Pictures are taken of each drawing, created with the expressive medium to which the author is most predisposed, from the pencil to the pen, coloured pencils, or gouache.
The ISA School of Urbino is sixty years old and has been and is now still one of the main reference points for those who are inclined towards animation and illustration in our country. From the generation of authors born between the middle of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s there are three leading figures in the field of animated film: Gianluigi Toccafondo, Robert Catani, and Simone Massi.
In their films we find established elements, almost fingerprints, such as the use of metamorphoses, or shots that abruptly change the points of view, changing perspectives. In this way even the youngest acquired heritage and to continue the legacy. Mara Cerri, Magda Guidi, Beatrice Pucci, Virginia Mori, Allessia Travaglini, and Marco Capellacci are among these. They are very different from each other and this stylistic originality is a testament to the artistic and educational direction of the school, in the past as in the present.