SPANISH FILM FESTIVAL RETROSPECTIVE PROGRAM FOCUSED ON ABSTRACT ANIMATION INCLUDES JULES ENGEL's FILMS


View these GREAT experimental animation films curated by Larry Cuba and the iotaCenter.  The retrospective program
includes Jules Engel's TRAIN LANDSCAPE and MEADOW with citations of critical comments by Janeann Dill.

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Jules Engel
[Budapest, Hungary 1909 | USA +2003]

Jules Engel is a pioneer in the field of animation as a visual art form. Born in Budapest in 1909, Engel grew up
outside of Chicago and then moved to Los Angeles as a young man, where he successfully created dual careers
as an abstract artist and experimental filmmaker.  Engel's aesthetic is informed by the principle of abstraction,
whether or not the work is representational, and regardless of purpose.
 
Engel's contribution to two Disney films in particular, Fantasia and Bambi,contains a finely tuned visual aesthetic
that Engel subsequently explored and developed into his work as a filmmaker and as an artist. Acknowledged as
an early California Modernist, Engel's extensive fine art exhibition record has paralleled his completion of more
than thirty independent experimental animation films.
 
Engel has also been enormously influential as a teacher to international artists and filmmakers who have created
a presence for their work from Harvard to Hollywood.

-- Janeann Dill [excerpt]
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punto y raya festival, Barcelona, SPAIN 25th - 29th of November 2009 Arts Santa Mónica

iotaCenter, Los Angeles

IIACI; Institute for Interdisciplinary Art and Creative Intelligence

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Posted by IIACI at 10/25/2009 9:23 AM
Categories: Digital Arts and Animation Festivals, INSTITUTE MISSION, Jules Engel Biography Project, Experimental Animation
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