In English, open to public.

As the worldwide Animation Studies are rapidly growing and evolving in recent years, catching up with the increasing field of animated films, Animafest Scanner symposium is again at the frontline of the discourse and the interaction of theoretical and practical approaches to animation. The sixth edition of the Symposium for Contemporary Animation Animafest Scanner VI aims again to create synergy of theoretical and practical discourses, and stimulate exchange between filmmakers and scholars.

The symposium is held in association with the World Festival of Animated Film Animafest Zagreb. Over the course of its forty-seven-year history, the festival has given a stage to different animation forms and formats in competition and non-competition environments, presenting a worldwide selection of auteur, experimental and mainstream animated films in various programs.

This year’s keynote speaker is the recipient of the Animafest Zagreb Award for Outstanding Contributions to Animation Studies for 2019, Jayne Pilling, a versatile scholar, educator and animation promoter. Jayne Pilling was the founder and until 2018 the director of the prestigious British Animation Awards. Her overall work demonstrates great knowledge, methodological comprehensiveness and fluency in different areas of animation, which she acquired teaching at universities in Europe, Asia and USA, collaborating with the most renowned festivals, and advising the British Film Institute and other artistic establishments. Naturally, what is particularly important for this award is the trace she has left as the author and editor of books and other publications about animation and similar audiovisual arts. She has curated and released a series of DVDs of animation classics, helped push women’s issues in the genre and supported the canonisation of many animation values. Ms Pilling made it possible for new generations to discover the classics like Starewicz, at the same time keeping track of the latest trends in the art of animation. She directed the TV serial Continental Passions about European contributions to this art and organised several symposiums and conferences, demonstrating her massive energy in discovering new ways of understanding, promoting and loving animation.

The speakers will focus on the following subjects: Animation and History, Animation and Fine Arts, Animation and (Virtual) Reality, Animation and Education.

ORGANIZERS
World Festival of Animated Film –Animafest Zagreb, ASIFA Austria, Hulahop Film & Art Production

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Mag. art. Daniel Šuljić, World Festival of Animated Film – Animafest Zagreb
Dr. phil. Franziska Bruckner, ASIFA Austria / AG Animation Vienna / St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences
Dr. sc. Nikica Gilić, Assoc. Prof., Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
Prof. Holger Lang, Webster University
Prof. Dr. Hrvoje Turković, Prof. in retirement, Academy of Dramatic Arts, University of Zagreb

WITH SUPPORT OF
City of Zagreb, Zagreb Tourist Board, Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC) Croatian Film Directors’ Guild (DHFR), Balassi Institute Zagreb, Austrian Cultural Forum in Zagreb AG, Animation of the Society for Media Studies (GfM), St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences

http://www.animafest.hr/en

10:00 – Welcome & Introduction

10:10-10:55
KEYNOTE: Reflections on Animation History/Histories…and Historiography: Where Are We Now? – Jayne Pilling,
Animafest Award for Outstanding Contribution to Animation Studies

Moderation: Andrijana Ružić

11:00-11:30
Feminism and Animation: Feminist Discourse Analysis of Quebec Animation from the National Film Board of Canada (1970-1979) – Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre (MJSTP Films / Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)

11:45-12:15
Rewinding Brazilian Electronic Animation from the 1980’s: A Vanishing History –
João Paulo Schlittleri (Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil)

12:20-12:50
The Animation Cut-Out as an Expression of Long Lasting Spatio-Temporal Artistic and Cultural Processes –
Velislava Gospodinova (New Bulgarian University, Sofia)

Moderation: Hrvoje Turković

14:30-15:00
George Schwizgebel’s Animated Trilogy of Faust –
Andrijana Ružić (independent scholar, Università Statale di Milano, Italy)

15:05-15:35
The „Simultaneous“ Art of Theodore Ushev
Paola Bristot (Academy of Fine Arts of Venice, Italy)

15:50-16:20
The Public Showroom ASIFAKEIL – 100 Installations Focusing on Animation Art –
Stefan Stratil (ASIFA Austrija)

16:25 – 16:55
Motion-Time-Space. From Moving Image to Moving Architecture –
Martina Tritthart (FH Joanneum University of Applied Science, FH Burgenland University of Applied Science, Austria)

10:00 – Introduction

Moderation: Franziska Bruckner

10:15-10:45
VR Memory as New Animated Documentary: Rebuilding Lost Homes through Interviewing –
Chunning Guo (Art School, Renmin University of China, Beijing)

11:05 – 11:35
Fantasia’s “Night on Bald Mountain”: Fantastic Horror in Disney’s Early Long-feature Animations
Jorgelina Orfila (Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA)

11:35-12:05
Emersive Storytelling – An Exploration of Animation and the Fourth Wall as Tools for Critical Thinking –
Eva Wijers (AKV St. Joost Master Institute, Netherlands)

12:10-12:40
Main Ballet Tanks. Researching the Possibilities of Transferring Aestheticized, Anthropomorphic Locomotion and Gestures to Non-Anthropomorphic, Mechanical Machinery by Means of Experimental Animation –
Bernhard Schmitt (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

12:45 – 13:15
Thinking Across Frames – Temporally Extended Consciousness and the Process of Animation
Andy Buchanan

Moderation: Holger Lang

14:30-15:00
„Everybody Is a Director“ – Case Studies on Collaborative, Chained Animation in Education –
Jürgen Hagler, Remo Rauscher (University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, School of Informatics/Communications/Media)

15:05-15:35
Animated Documentaries: A Practice through Community Filmmaking –
Debjani Mukherjee (IIT Bombay, BOL, India)

15:50 – 16:20
Animation Techniques and Graphic Style in Representation of Deep Space –
Olivier Cottes (independent scholar, France)

16:25 – 16:55
Explanatory Power of Diagrammatic Animation –
Hrvoje Turković (Academy of Dramatic Art, Zagreb University, Croatia)