Thursday 1 November

Flip-Side: Young People’s Animation
9.30 - 11.30am
Flip is dedicated to showcasing the best in international animation talent from people of all ages. As part of the festival we are bringing you this informative and motivating event. It will feature specially selected films made by young people from the West Midlands and further a field and inspirational success stories from those involved.

As a budding animator one way to get the ball rolling is getting funding to make your film. To talk you through some particularly successful films will be First Light Movies who fund and inspire film projects with young people from age 5 to 18 throughout the UK. They’ll be bringing a showreel bursting full of fabulous films and will be able to give you ideas of what can happen next - from working in the industry to winning awards. There will also be a panel of experts on hand to answer your questions, which will include animators, funding agencies and teachers who deliver animation as part of the curriculum.

This is also a great opportunity for those who are new to animation to find out more about how it can enhance learning, be used to reinforce key skills such as literacy, and engage a wide variety of young people.

Cost: £3
Group booking discount: 20% off each place for groups of 20 or more
To book contact Kathryn Kliszat on 01902 716055 or email kathryn@light-house.co.uk.

Drawing in the Digital - One day Symposium
11am - 5pm
Integral to this year’s Flip Animation Festival, Drawing in the Digital, is a one day Symposium organized by the University of Wolverhampton’s School of Art & Design. The event combines academics, thinkers, individual and industrial practitioners from the Animation community with an aim to illuminate contemporary animation practice.

The focus of the symposium will be:

• How do the techniques, styles and idioms of the past continue to be re-invigorated through new and emerging technologies and consumer demand?
• How do older techniques and technologies inform contemporary practices?
• What elements of animation practice survive and how is the role of the animator evolving?

Programme:

Contributors to Drawing in the Digital are:

Tim Webb; Senior Tutor at the Royal College of Art; Director of multi-award-winning film, A is for Autism (1992) and Bafta Nominated Six of One.
Liam Scanlan; Director of the School of Media at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth; he was also Head of Technical Directors and Head of Research and Development (Technical Directors) at George Lucas’ Industrial Light and Magic, California;
Professor Paul Wells; Leader of the Animation Academy at LUSAD Loughborough; Paul has provided an enthusiastic and critical lead for animation discussion in this country and abroad for many years;
Elizabeth Hobbs; credits include: The Last Regret of the Grim Reaper, The Emperor, The Witches, The True Story of Sawney Beane and The Old, Old, Very Old Man.
Alys Hawkins; Director of short animated films, commissions include a '3 Minute Wonder' short for Channel 4, broadcast in 2005
Erica Russell; Erica’s film Triangle was nominated for an Oscar in 1995. In ’96 it received the British Animation Award for Best Film under 15 minutes;
Clive Walley; Clive is an artist filmmaker whose work in animated film is understood to be some of the most beautiful and purest expressions of the form.

Clive Walley Retrospective
7 - 9pm
Clive Walley is an artist-filmmaker whose work in animation is understood to be some of the most beautiful and purest expressions of the form. He has successfully bridged the divide between the commercial and art world with his award winning body of work. His work with the multi-plane rostrum technique combined with oil paint on glass, resonates and motivates inert media into life to create a visual music that is both timeless as well as providing a contemporary echo of the past. As a precursor of the digital shift, his work could come to be viewed as pivotal in the current pre/post photographic discussion.

This is rare opportunity to see his work on the big screen and to hear from Clive himself.

Download full programme (pdf)

For any queries contact Ross Winning: Ross.Winning@wlv.ac.uk