• Hula Hoop screens at SIFF and wins '3 Minute Masterpiece' Seattle Times contest!

    Hula Hoop screens at SIFF and wins ’3 Minute Masterpiece’ Seattle Times contest!

    My short Hula Hoop is one of 11 winners of the Seattle Times and Seattle International Film Festival ‘3 Minute Masterpiece‘ contest. This means that you can watch it online on the Seattle Times site, and it will screen as part of SIFF at a special presentation where three further prizes will be announced – [...]

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  • Brightwater Conveyance grant!

    Brightwater Conveyance grant!

    I’m happy to announce that I won a commission from King County for the Brightwater Conveyance project: “4Culture, working in partnership with King County’s Wastewater Treatment Division, is commissioning temporary artworks that will inspire and engage the broader community in a conversation about water quality in our region, environmental stewardship and the extent of the [...]

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  • Plain Face at the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival!

    Plain Face at the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival!

    My animated short Plain Face will be screening at the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, a student run international festival at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. It will be screening on May 4th: http://www.filmmilwaukee.org/ Looks like a good line-up. If you know anyone in Milwaukee, encourage them to attend!

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  • The Whale Story at SIFF 2012!

    The Whale Story at SIFF 2012!

    I can finally announce that my short The Whale Story, animated in Cal Anderson Park with the help of many volunteers, will be having its North American premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival! It will be screening as part of the Shorts Fest Weekend, in the Animation for Adults program on May 26th, 9:30PM. [...]

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  • SEAT Artist Talk at Cornish

    SEAT Artist Talk at Cornish

    Seven members of the Seattle Experimental Animation Team (including yours truly) will be showing and talking about their work at this open-to-the-public (and free!) Cornish event. It is Friday, April 20th, 7PM-9PM. The event will start with some mingling as a recent SEAT collective film is screened in the background. Details here:http://www.facebook.com/events/286425391432681/

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  • SEAT at HuskyFest '12!

    SEAT at HuskyFest ’12!

    Come to the UW campus for HuskyFest April 19-21st! This fair will take over the main Pavilion on the UW campus (the big square near the Henry Art Gallery) and there are a crazy number of events and installations planned. The Seattle Experimental Animation Team will be set up in a portion of the grand [...]

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  • The Whale Story at the Green Film Festival In Seoul!

    The Whale Story at the Green Film Festival In Seoul!

    The Whale Story will be making it’s Asian premiere at the 9th Green Film Festival in Seoul, May 9-15, 2012 as part of their program ‘Animals, Our Sweet and Wild Companions’. Enjoy, Korea!

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  • The Whale Story accepted to the Portugal Underground Film Festival!

    The Whale Story accepted to the Portugal Underground Film Festival!

    The first festival acceptance for The Whale Story has come in and it is for the Portugal Underground Film Festival, happening June 8-16, 2012 in the cities of Fundao and Portimao. Having never been to Portugal I so wish I could attend! Cross your fingers for more opportunities to travel to festivals in the near [...]

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  • Inter-Action coming to Portland, May 17th!

    Inter-Action coming to Portland, May 17th!

    The Inter-Action program of animated shorts from the Seattle Experimental Animation Team is playing on Thursday, May 17th at the NW Film Center in Portland, OR. Here is the listing on the NW Film Center site. This 75 minute program is comprised of twelve original shorts, including my own Plain Face, Drew Christie‘s The Man [...]

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  • CityArtist grant!

    CityArtist grant!

    I’ve been holed away in my studio working on a very special project (to be announced soon!) so I forgot to post about this: thank you to the City of Seattle for awarding me with my second CityArtist grant! This will fund a personal film about human-pet relationships that should be finished around September. Check [...]

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Hula Hoop screens at SIFF and wins ’3 Minute Masterpiece’ Seattle Times contest!

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May 142012
 

My short Hula Hoop is one of 11 winners of the Seattle Times and Seattle International Film Festival ‘3 Minute Masterpiece‘ contest. This means that you can watch it online on the Seattle Times site, and it will screen as part of SIFF at a special presentation where three further prizes will be announced – a Youth award winner, a Grand Prize winner, and a People’s Choice winner. Obviously my short will not win the Youth award, but it has a chance of winning the People’s Choice award if you vote online for it! Click here to vote. There does not seem to be any impediment to how many times you can vote (hint hint!). The special screening is on May 19th, 10AM at SIFF Cinema at the Uptown, and it’s free! So come on down.

If you’re keeping count this makes two of my shorts that are screening at this year’s SIFF. The other is The Whale Story, animated in paint on a 16ft high wall, screening as part of the Animation for Adults program on May 26th.

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More Barzan photos

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May 112012
 

More photos of my animation stand as I animate segments for this documentary:

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Brightwater Conveyance grant!

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May 112012
 

I’m happy to announce that I won a commission from King County for the Brightwater Conveyance project: “4Culture, working in partnership with King County’s Wastewater Treatment Division, is commissioning temporary artworks that will inspire and engage the broader community in a conversation about water quality in our region, environmental stewardship and the extent of the Brightwater system.” Brightwater is a water purification system north of Seattle that includes a treatment plant, a system of pipes that carry the water and an ‘outfall’ that discharges treated water into the Puget Sound. I will be making an animated film exploring this topic, hopefully using audio interviews from the public – so many possibilities!

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What I’ve been working on for the past month

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Apr 302012
 

Here are some choice shots of my animation stand covered in sand. I’m making some animated segments for a documentary called Barzan, about an Iraqi immigrant to the US and the case surrounding his deportation. Learn all about it (and see the trailer) here. I’m excited about the project and I’m using sand in all new ways, to represent rippling water, feet, people walking, etc. Come by my studio during the next Capitol Hill Art Walk (second Thursdays of the month – Green Door Studio) to see the sand up close (but no touching! heh – I’ll have a separate sand pile for you to play with).

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Late but true – SEAT is Awesome

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Apr 302012
 

Just a quick shout-out to the Seattle-based collective of independent animators, SEAT, of which I am happy to be a part: we forgot to announce that SEAT is officially Awesome! In March our group won one of the $1,000 Awesome Foundation grants, to support our undeniably awesome event at Zeitgeist on March 1st, and to go towards equipment for future such social screenings.  We also got to go to a fun party thrown in our honor (and in honor of all the other grantees so far) at Sole Repair a few weeks ago – as soon as pictures surface, I will post the awesomeness here.

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Plain Face at the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival!

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Apr 282012
 

My animated short Plain Face will be screening at the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, a student run international festival at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. It will be screening on May 4th: http://www.filmmilwaukee.org/

Looks like a good line-up. If you know anyone in Milwaukee, encourage them to attend!

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The Whale Story at SIFF 2012!

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Apr 262012
 

Still from The Whale Story (2012)

I can finally announce that my short The Whale Story, animated in Cal Anderson Park with the help of many volunteers, will be having its North American premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival! It will be screening as part of the Shorts Fest Weekend, in the Animation for Adults program on May 26th, 9:30PM. More details coming soon! Mark your calendars!

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SEAT Artist Talk at Cornish

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Apr 162012
 

Seven members of the Seattle Experimental Animation Team (including yours truly) will be showing and talking about their work at this open-to-the-public (and free!) Cornish event. It is Friday, April 20th, 7PM-9PM. The event will start with some mingling as a recent SEAT collective film is screened in the background. Details here:http://www.facebook.com/events/286425391432681/

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SEAT at HuskyFest ’12!

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Apr 102012
 

Come to the UW campus for HuskyFest April 19-21st! This fair will take over the main Pavilion on the UW campus (the big square near the Henry Art Gallery) and there are a crazy number of events and installations planned. The Seattle Experimental Animation Team will be set up in a portion of the grand tent screening some looped clips and the Exquisite Corpse collective film we premiered at Zeitgeist on March 1st. It’s free! Find all the info here: http://www.washington.edu/huskyfest/event/looped-animation-zone/

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The Whale Story at the Green Film Festival In Seoul!

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Apr 062012
 

The Whale Story will be making it’s Asian premiere at the 9th Green Film Festival in Seoul, May 9-15, 2012 as part of their program ‘Animals, Our Sweet and Wild Companions’. Enjoy, Korea!

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