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Paint-on-glass Animation
Paint-on-glass animation is a technique for making animated films by manipulating slow-drying oil paints on sheets of glass. Gouache mixed with glycerine is sometimes used instead. The best-known practitioner of the technique is Russian animator Aleksandr Petrov; he has used it in seven films, all of which have won awards. Animators/films * Agamurad Amanov (Агамурад Аманов) **''Tuzik'' (Тузик) (2001) **''Childhood's Autumn'', ''Осень детства'' (Osen detstva) (2005) (with Yekatirina Boykova) *Martine Chartrand **''Black Soul'' (2000) * Witold Giersz **''Little Western (Mały Western)'' (1960) **''Red and Black (Czerwone i czarne)'' (1963) **''Horse (Koń)'' (1967) **''The Stuntman (Kaskader)'' (1972) **''Fire (Pożar)'' (1975) * Aleksey Karayev (Алексей Караев) **''Welcome'', ''Добро пожаловать'' (Dobro pozhalovat) (1986) **''The Lodgers of an Old House'', ''Жильцы старого дома'' (Zhiltsy starovo doma) (198 ...
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Marcos Magalhães
Marcos Magalhães (; born in 1958 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is the author of short films such as " Meow!" (Special Jury Prize at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival) and "Animando", shot in the National Film Board of Canada. He has been responsible for the first professional course in animation in Brazil, held in collaboration with the National Film Board of Canada from 1985 to 1987. In 1986, he coordinated "Planet Earth", a collective film by 30 Brazilian animators for UN's Year of Peace. He's the conceiver and producer of "Eight Point Star", a film entirely animated by late Fernando Diniz, a renowned naïf painter who lived in a psychiatric institution in Brazil. As an artist-in-residence at the Division of Animation and Digital Arts of the University of Southern California, he completed in 1999 the film ''TwO'', a 3D computer animation combined with animated scratches on 35 mm film. In 2000, he produced for Nickelodeon the first Latin-American episode for the series “Short Fi ...
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Olive Jar Studios
The olive, botanical name ''Olea europaea'', meaning 'European olive' in Latin, is a species of small tree or shrub in the family Oleaceae, found traditionally in the Mediterranean Basin. When in shrub form, it is known as ''Olea europaea'' 'Montra', dwarf olive, or little olive. The species is cultivated in all the countries of the Mediterranean The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the e ..., as well as in Australia, New Zealand, North and South America and South Africa. ''Olea europaea'' is the type species for the genus ''Olea''. The olive's fruit, also called an "olive", is of major agricultural importance in the Mediterranean region as the source of olive oil; it is one of the core ingredients in Mediterranean cuisine. The tree and its fruit give their name to the plant ...
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Vladimir Samsonov (animator)
Vladimir Samsonov or Uładzimir Samsonaŭ ( be, Уладзімір Віктаравіч Самсонаў, russian: Владимир Викторович Самсонов, born 17 April 1976) is a Belarusian former professional table tennis player. He is known in China as the "Tai Chi Master" because of his superb all-around style, both offensive and defensive.Vladimir Samsonov
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Samsonov competed at six consecutive Olympics between 1996 and 2016, placing fourth individually in , in addition to equal fifth in
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Georges Schwizgebel
Georges Schwizgebel (b. 1944) is a Swiss animation film director whose paint-on-glass-animated 2004 film ''L'Homme sans ombre'' (''The Man With No Shadow'') won various awards. Biography Schwizgebel was born on 28 September 1944 in Reconvilier, Canton of Berne ( Jura bernois), in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. From 1960-65 he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts et des Arts Décoratifs at Geneva. In 1970 he founded Studio GDS with Claude Luyet et Daniel Suter, where he produced and directed animated films as well as working in graphic design. From 1986 to 1995 he worked on retrospectives and exhibitions, among others, in Nuremberg, Stuttgart, Tokyo, Osaka, Paris and New York. In 2012, the artist donated some drawings on paper, paintings on cellulose (the customary technique of Schwizgebel) and pastels to the Swiss Film Archive, thus constituting the ''Georges Schwizgebel Papers''. Accolades He received the Swiss Film Prize twice: in 2002, for ''La jeune fille et le ...
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My Love (2006 Film)
''My Love'' (russian: Моя любовь, ''Moya lyubov'') is a 2006 paint-on-glass-animated short film directed by Aleksandr Petrov, based on ''A Love Story'' (1927) by Ivan Shmelyov. Work on the film took place in Yaroslavl, Russia over a period of three years at the studio DAGO Co. It was funded by Russia's Channel One and Dentsu Tec in Japan. Crew History Some time after the completion of the Oscar-winning ''The Old Man and the Sea'' (1999), Petrov returned to his hometown of Yaroslavl in Russia to work on his next film. ''My Love'' was finished in spring 2006 after three years' work and had its première at the Hiroshima International Animation Festival on August 27, where it won the Audience Prize and the Special International Jury Prize. On March 17, 2007, My Love was theatrically released at the Cinema Angelika in Shibuya (Japan) by Studio Ghibli, as the first release of the Ghibli Museum Library (theatrical and DVD releases of Western animated films in Japan In Janua ...
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Winter Days
is a 2003 Japanese anime film directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based on one of the ''renku'' ( collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō. The creation of the film followed the traditional collaborative nature of the source material – the visuals for each of the 36 stanzas were independently created by 35 different animators. As well as many Japanese animators, Kawamoto assembled leading names of animation from across the world. Each animator was asked to contribute at least 30 seconds to illustrate their stanza, and most of the sequences are under a minute (Yuri Norstein's, though, is nearly two minutes long). The released film consists of the 40-minute animation, followed by an hour-long 'Making of' documentary, including interviews with the animators. ''Winter Days'' won the Grand Prize of the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2003. Bashō's hokku, or opening verse, of the 36-verse poem:Horton, H. Mack. ...
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The Old Man And The Sea (1999 Film)
''The Old Man and the Sea'' () is a 1999 paint-on-glass-animated short film directed by Russian animator Aleksandr Petrov, based on the 1952 novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. The film won many awards, including the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Work on the film took place in Montreal over a period of two and a half years and was funded by an assortment of Russian, Canadian and Japanese companies. French and English-language soundtracks to the film were released concurrently. Plot The film follows the plot of the original novel, but at times emphasizes different points. It opens with the dream sequence of an old man named Santiago, who dreams about his childhood on the masts of a ship and lions on the shores. When he wakes up, we find out that he has gone 84 days without catching any fish at all. He is apparently so unlucky that his young apprentice, Manolin, has been forbidden by his parents to sail with the old man and been ordered to fish with more su ...
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Rusalka (1996 Film)
''Mermaid'' (russian: Русалка, translit. ''Rusalka'') is a 1996 Russian animated short film directed by Aleksandr Petrov and showcasing the paint-on-glass animation Paint-on-glass animation is a technique for making animated films by manipulating slow-drying oil paints on sheets of glass. Gouache mixed with glycerine is sometimes used instead. The best-known practitioner of the technique is Russian animator A ... technique for which Petrov is known. The story is based on traditional Slavic folklore about the rusalka, ''rusalki'', river-dwelling mermaids said to be "born" from the unhappy souls of young women who had committed suicide by drowning—usually after being mistreated by a man. The Russian "mermaid" is, for this reason, a dangerous creature more akin to the Greek Siren (mythology), sirens than to The American Disney's cute and lovable Ariel (The Little Mermaid), Ariel. Plot As springtime begins to break up the ice on a frozen river, a handsome young novic ...
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The Dream Of A Ridiculous Man (film)
''The Dream of a Ridiculous Man'' ( ''Son smeshnovo cheloveka'') is a 1992 Russian animated short film directed by Aleksandr Petrov. It tells the story of a misanthropic man who begins to regain his will to live after a chance encounter with a young girl. The film was made using paint-on-glass animation. It is based on the 1877 short story with the same title by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The film won several festival awards including the prize for best film in its length category at the 1992 Ottawa International Animation Festival. It was nominated for the Nika Award The Nika Award (sometimes styled NIKA Award) is the main annual national film award in Russia, presented by the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Science, and seen as the national equivalent of the Oscars. History The award was established i ... for Best Animated Film. References 1990s animated short films 1992 animated films 1992 films Films based on short fiction Films based on works by Fyodor Dostoyevs ...
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The Cow (1989 Film)
''The Cow'' ( ''Korova'') is a 1989 Soviet animated short film directed by Aleksandr Petrov. It tells the story of a boy who recalls how his family lost its cow. The film is based on a short story by Andrei Platonov and was made using paint-on-glass animation. Accolades The film competed at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival, where it received an Honourable Mention. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. It received the Gran Prix of the Hiroshima International Animation Festival The International Animation Festival Hiroshima is a biennial animation festival hosted in Hiroshima, Japan. The festival was founded in 1985 by ''Association International du Film d'Animation'' or ''ASIFA'' as ''International Animation Festival f .... References 1980s animated short films 1989 animated films 1989 films Films about cattle Films based on short fiction Films directed by Aleksandr Petrov Paint-on-glass animated films Soviet animated short ...
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Moby Dick (1999 Film)
''Moby-Dick; or, The Whale'' is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship ''Pequod'', for revenge against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that on the ship's previous voyage bit off Ahab's leg at the knee. A contribution to the literature of the American Renaissance, ''Moby-Dick'' was published to mixed reviews, was a commercial failure, and was out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891. Its reputation as a " Great American Novel" was established only in the 20th century, after the 1919 centennial of its author's birth. William Faulkner said he wished he had written the book himself, and D. H. Lawrence called it "one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world" and "the greatest book of the sea ever written". Its opening sentence, "Call me Ishmael", is among world literature's most famous. Melville began writing ''Moby-Dick'' in February 1 ...
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