The Artist Position panel, with Réka Bucsi, Erick Oh and Max Hattler focuses on current themes related to storytelling and animation.
Réka Bucsi
Réka Bucsi Makes Movies
This talk gives an overview of how Réka started making animated films since she graduated from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest in 2013. She will discuss each of her movies individually, including some process and production experiences. Réka is an independent animation filmmaker, trying to get her films to cinemas. She works with unconventional narratives, which presents its own set of challenges when it comes to a pitch, a distribution plan, or when dealing with an audience in general. Réka has been balancing commission and personal work for the past 7 years and will give the audience a brief insight into her experiences.
Max Hattler
Appeal of the Analogue: Real-Word Abstractions
In stop motion and photography-based animation, meaning is anchored within the real world. In abstract animation, how do analog sources impact the viewer’s reading of moving image work, compared with digitally-derived materials set within a virtual space that is removed from the everyday? How does the function of representation and symbolism differ, depending on whether the work is set within an analog or a digital space? Through a discussion of some of his photography-based films, including Serial Parallels, Shift, and Concrete Abstraction: Road Triptych, Max Hattler proposes some answers to these questions and offers suggestions on how they can be leveraged as creative filmmaking techniques.
Erick Oh
Making of OPERA
“OPERA” is an animation installation project designed by Erick Oh, an award-winning filmmaker, and a former Pixar animator. It is an 8K-size single-channel animation of 5 minutes that can be played infinitely in the gallery space. “OPERA” can be simply defined as a contemporary animated edition of the Renaissance fresco mural paintings. Driven by the spirits of Bosch, Michelangelo, Botticelli, and more, Erick portrays, in his own signature whimsical and surreal way, our human society and history, filled with beauty and absurdity. Viewers will experience the range of in-depth emotions through this epic reflection of human life: it is hopeful, funny, thoughtful, yet scary and sad. This piece is not only a living piece of art but an invitation to question the mechanisms of your society and behavior. The universality of its message will move everyone”s heart and thoughts. Erick has independently created this with a team of his fellow artists in his spare time within the 4 years of production time. He’ll personally share this journey for the first time at Ars Electronica.
Biographies
Erick Oh (KR/US) is a Korean filmmaker/artist based in California, USA. His films have been introduced and awarded at numerous film festivals, including Academy Awards, Annie Awards, Annecy Animation Festival, Zagreb Film Festival, SIGGRAPH, Anima Mundi, and more. With his fine arts background in Seoul National University, Korea, and film at UCLA, USA, Erick became […]
http://erickoh.com/
Réka Bucsi graduated from the MOME Budapest animation department in 2013. Her graduation film “Symphony no. 42” got shortlisted for the Oscars in 2014. Her films were screened in competitions at various festivals, including Berlinale, Annecy, SXSW, and Sundance. Réka’s debut film “LOVE” was nominated for Best Short Film at the European Film Awards.
Max Hattler (DE) is an artist and academic who works with abstract animation, video installation, and audiovisual performance. Max studied at Goldsmiths and the Royal College of Art and holds a Doctorate in Fine Art from the University of East London. His work has been shown at festivals and exhibitions worldwide. Awards include Annecy, Punto […]
http://www.maxhattler.com/
