ASIFA PDX invites you to the annual
ANIMATORS ICE CREAM SOCIAL
~Games, Raffle, Silent Auction, Piñata~
Please Bring Your Favorite Topping ~ Ice Cream Provided
Saturday July 26th from 2 to 5pm
8325 N. Central St. Portland, OR 97203 (Bus No. 16)
(Friends, spouses, children and friendly dogs welcome!)
Hosted by Marilyn Zornado & Alan Garren
Cascade ACM SIGGRAPH invites ASIFA community members to attend their annual summer social:
SUMMER SOCIAL BBQ
Saturday July 19, noon to 8pm
Entropy Acres
22727 SW Stafford Rd
Tualatin, OR 97062
“Join us on July 19 for The Annual Cascade ACM SIGGRAPH Summer Social, a Joint Event with ASIFA, and other local computer graphics communities on Saturday, July 19 in Stafford Oregon. All are welcome. Bring your favorite thing to drink or grill. Some picnic-type foodstuffs will be provided.”
(ASIFA’s Ice Cream Social takes place one week later on Saturday July 26. By that time you’ll have room for dessert, right?)
See a night of cut-out animations showcasing the work of Luca Dipierro, Italian illustrator and animator living in Portland. Dipierro’s short films, called “a perfect mix between creepy and charming” by The Huffington Post, are carnivalesque tales of acrobacy and death that draw from the traditions of Italian commedia dell’arte and Sicilian teatro dei pupi (marionette theatre). Sorrowful and comical at once, Dipierro’s animations tell stories of trees growing out of furniture, stranded Columbus-like explorers, puppet funerals, monkeys, prestidigitators, ghosts, and a woman birthing a fish.
Father Murphy, an experimental band from Italy, will provide a haunting live soundtrack.
Paper Circus: Animations by Luca Dipierro
Thursday July 3 @ 7:00pm
Clinton Street Theater
2522 SE Clinton Street
Portland, OR 97202
$5 general admission
more info
Klik, Amsterdam’s favorite animation festival, concludes their historic first-ever US tour with a stop in Portland. Join Klikkers Tünde Vollenbroek and Mathijs Stegink, and Dutch animation director Joost Lieuwma (Things You’d Better Not Mix Up, Leaving Home) at the Hollywood Theatre for two special screenings on June 1st:
7pm: DUTCH DELIGHTS is a Klik-curated overview of contemporary animation in the Netherlands, proudly presenting striking animated shorts and groundbreaking works. This program is family friendly.
9pm: Best of Klik! The best of the fest, featuring award-winning films from around the world. This program is suitable for children over 8.
Between screenings, we’ll be bringing a taste of the festival’s unique activities and culture to the Hollywood Theatre, so join us for a special evening of international animation! Admission is only $8!
With support from: Rebekah Villon, The Hollywood Theatre, The Netherlands Film Funds, Eye International, Bent Image Lab, and ASIFA Portland.
- See more at: http://hollywoodtheatre.org/klik-animation-festival/#sthash.UEGL6SmH.dpuf
Coming up in mid-May, the Northwest Animation Festival is the standout animation event in Oregon this year. The festival is a celebration of animation in all its forms, and of the artistry and craft that go into it. Having grown during each of its four years, the NWAF now shows more animated films than any other festival in the USA (!). The amount of work that goes into curating the fest is staggering, whittling more than 800 submissions down to a selection of 174 amazing international shorts.
This year’s festival runs May 12-18 at the Hollywood Theatre in Portland, Oregon. The heart of the festival, the short film program, repeats one week later at the Bijou Art Cinemas in Eugene during Memorial Day weekend, May 23-25.
Portland’s schedule will include many additional special events, including after-parties, thematic programs by guest organizations, animated installation art in the theatre’s lobby, the Oregon Animation Industry Showcase and a presentation by LAIKA about their upcoming stop-motion feature film, The BoxTrolls.
The fest will be thick with ASIFA members and friends, taking in inspiration, community, and popcorn. Hope you can join us! For ticketing and other info, visit the NWAF site.
The NW Film Center presents a program of short films from John and Faith Hubley on Sunday, May 4th at the Whitsell Auditorium. On the following Sunday, May 11, the NWFC screens Faith Hubley’s THE COSMIC EYE.
It’s a collection of groundbreaking, enduring, handmade work incorporating the talents of the Hubleys along with artists such as Bobe Cannon Tissa David. Well worth your time. Tickets are available here.
HUBLEY CLASSICS
DIRECTOR: JOHN AND FAITH HUBLEY
US, 1956-1970
The husband-and-wife team of John and Faith Hubley brought a humanistic perspective and a distinctly modern style to postwar American animation. The films they made together, and independently, influenced a generation of independent animators worldwide and earned many honors, including three Academy Awards. Selected in collaboration with the Hubley family (daughter Emily is also a distinguished animator) to honor John Hubley’s (1914-1977) centennial, the sparkling new 35mm prints of these innovative, visually striking classics (a handful among dozens of brilliant films)—THE ADVENTURES OF AN * (1957), THE TENDER GAME (1958), MOONBIRD (1959), THE HAT (1964), URBANISSIMO (1967), WINDY DAY (1968), OF MEN AND DEMONS (1969), and EGGS (1971)—address a wide range of topics, from urbanization and overpopulation to two boys’ search for a pet bird, and feature the voices of Dizzy Gillespie, Dudley Moore, and the Hubleys’ children, as well as music from Benny Carter, Ella Fitzgerald, and Quincy Jones. (80 mins.)
Faith Hubley’s classic animated feature THE COSMIC EYE screens May 11.
ASIFA Karaoke Sketch
Saturday, April 26th, 8:30 pm The Alibi
4024 N Interstate Ave, Portland, OR 97227
Join us at the always-fun ASIFA Karaoke sketch gathering! Bring your sketchbook and join us for some drinking, drawing, and singing! (singing optional)
Thursday, March 27th 7pm
Lucky Lab Beer Hall
1945 NW Quimby St.
It’s time for our first Meet & Greet of 2014! Join us at the Lucky Lab Beer Hall (In Northwest) to grab a pint, share some stories, catch up on things and maybe meet some new faces. We’d love to hear what fun stuff you’d like to see ASIFA Portland make happen this year. Everyone is welcome! Let’s hang out and all talk about animation.
