Norwich journeys beyond animation with its boldest festival yet, from 18 - 21 October
Expanded, refreshed and emboldened, Norwich International Animation Festival returns for 2006 with a trailblazing programme which ventures further still from ‘traditional’ film festival territory to embrace live art, generative work and artists’ film, eroding yet further the myth that animation is about cartoons alone.
This year’s festival theme, ‘Re-vision’, looks at reappropriation – the found, twisted and mashed-up in animation and the wider moving image. Highlights include retrospectives of leading animation directors Igor Kovalyov, Priit Parn and Koji Yamamura, a wide-ranging tribute to auteur Walerian Borowczyk, featuring rarely-screened films alongside special events with the Brothers Quay, Andrzej Klimowski and others, and a unique one-day symposium with filmmakers Bill Morrison ('Decasia'), Frank Mouris ('Frank Film') and Robert Bradbrook ('Home Road Movies'); generative artists Leonardo Solaas and Marius Watz; and leading theorist Steve Reinke.
To take over where film screenings finish, the new Lounge strand features live performance each night, with AV pioneers The Light Surgeons, German film artist Jürgen Reble and sound artist Thomas Köner and more - and installation work including Leonardo Solaas' Dreamlines, Ben Rivers' House and The Harrachov Exchange shows throughout the festival.
More information available at www.niaf.org.uk
