Nicole Van Goethem (31 May 1941 - 3 March 2000) was a Belgian animator and illustrator. She wrote and directed ''

A Greek Tragedy ''A Greek Tragedy'' is a 1985 Belgian animated short film written and directed by Nicole Van Goethem about three lady statues holding on to the remains of an ancient building. Accolades The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film ...

'', winner of the

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in 1987.

Biography

Van Goethem was born in 1941 in Antwerp. She studied applied arts at the Sint Maria Instituut in Antwerp,

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at the

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and evening courses at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the same city. Until about the age of 30, she lived and worked in the Antwerp nightlife, but decided to quit and started working as a graphic designer and illustrator for advertising agencies and magazines. After meeting cartoonist

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, she collaborated on his movies '' Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle'' from 1975, and '' The Missing Link'' from 1980. She also worked on the 1984 animated movie ''

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'' by Jef Cassiers.

Career

In 1985 Van Goethem finished her first short animated film, ''

''. It won the Grand Prix at the

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in 1985, and the

in 1987. In 1988 she finished her second short movie, ''Vol van gratie'' (''Full of Grace''), about some nuns who by mistake enter a sex shop and buy what they believe to be candles, but turn out to be something else entirely.FULL OF GRACE - SND FILMS
/ref> She then started working on third movie, ''Living Apart Together'', scheduled to be about 8 minutes long and with about 75% of the work done at the time of her death.

Exhibitions

*"Nicole van Goethem: Drawing the Film",

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(12 December 1987 until 7 February 1988) and

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(mùontreal, Canada), 1 September 1988 until 30 September 1988

Notes

External links

Nicole Van Goethem on IMDbMUBI
{{DEFAULTSORT:Goethem, Nicole Van 1941 births 2000 deaths 20th-century Belgian women artists Belgian animated film directors Belgian animators Women animators Belgian women illustrators Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp) alumni Directors of Best Animated Short Academy Award winners