ArtBabble: Animation

Martha Colburn Cuts the Boring Parts Out

Art21 — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:08:54 +0000

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New York Close Up

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How does an artist develop a personal style? In this film, artist Martha Colburn traces the evolution of her work, from her first found-footage film to subsequent hand-painted and stop-motion animations. Inspired by Baltimore’s experimental filmmaking community, Colburn describes how her earliest films were assembled from audio-visual cast offs found in the city’s surplus dump. After making films without using a camera, Colburn describes how she started to shoot her own original paintings and collages.

Martha Colburn & the Musicians, LIVE!

Art21 — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:42:48 +0000

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New York Close Up

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How does an artist transform a solitary practice into a communal experience? In this film, artist Martha Colburn leads a group of musicians in a series of live performances to her animated films at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens. The raucous energy of the musical accompaniment to Colburn’s work—itself intensely kinetic and colorful, often depicting historically-inspired scenes of aggression and violence—belies the time-consuming and meticulous process by which the artist creates her stop-motion films.

William Kentridge: Composer Philip Miller

Art21 — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:32:59 +0000

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Exclusive Episode #123: Composer Philip Miller talks about his long-time collaboration with William Kentridge, scoring and performing original music for the artist's animated films such as Felix in Exile (1994) and the multi-channel video installation I am not me, the horse is not mine (2009).

Trailer #1: "William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible" (2010)

Art21 — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:16:08 +0000

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Art21: First Look

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First trailer for "William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible," a new hour-long film from the producers of the Peabody-Award winning "Art in the Twenty-First Century" television series. The film gives viewers an intimate look into the mind and creative process of William Kentridge, the South African artist whose acclaimed work has made him one of the most dynamic and exciting contemporary artists working today. "William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible" premieres October 21, 2010 at 10:00 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings). For more information, visit: art21.org/anythingispossible

William Kentridge: Pain & Sympathy

Art21 — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:09:56 +0000

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Exclusive Episode #100: With his video "History of the Main Complaint" (1996) serving as a backdrop, William Kentridge discusses how artists draw upon tragedy as subject matter for their work and how drawing itself can be a compassionate act.

YOU DECIDE: Choose the 100th "Exclusive"

Art21 — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:03:39 +0000

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We're inviting viewers to choose which video will be our 100th episode in the "Exclusive" series.

Will it be Mary Heilmann? William Kentridge? Beryl Korot? Julie Mehretu? Mike Kelley? YOU DECIDE!

VOTE NOW & SEE THE RESULTS:
http://www.art21.org/exclusive
(polls close April 1st, 2010)

Gabriel Orozco: "Samurai Tree"

Art21 — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:08:27 +0000

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Exclusive Episode #037: Gabriel Orozco discusses recent paintings from his ongoing "Samurai Tree" series, including the works "Fugaz", "Tuttifruti" and "Red Roots" (all 2008), and the computer animation "Dandelion Animation" (2008), shown as part of the exhibition "Gabriel Orozco: Recent Work" (2008) at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York.

William Kentridge: "Return"

Art21 — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:01:31 +0000

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Exclusive Episode #094: Shot in his Johannesburg studio in South Africa, William Kentridge reveals the process and unusual presentation of the video work "Return" — a component of the larger project "(REPEAT) from the beginning / Da Capo" (2008) — which had its debut on the fire screen of Teatro La Fenice opera house in Venice, Italy.

William Kentridge: "Breathe"

Art21 — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:05:46 +0000

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Exclusive Episode #091: Shot in his Johannesburg studio in South Africa, William Kentridge reveals the process behind the video work "Breathe" — a component of the larger project "(REPEAT) from the beginning / Da Capo" that debuted at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and at the nearby Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in San Barnaba, Italy.

Matthew Ritchie: Apocalypse

Art21 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:01:56 +0000

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Exclusive Episode #025: Matthew Ritchie discusses the apocalyptic themes in his videos The Iron City (2007) and Raphael (2007), featured in his upcoming exhibition The Morning Line (2008) for the 3rd Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Seville.