Michael Sporn Animation – Splog

– Monday night was the first screening at the Tribeca Film Festival of a program honoring John Canemaker‘s Independent films. There will be two more screenings with tickets still available.

Per the Program Notes:

Continuing Tribeca’s celebration of New York-based independent animators, this program features the work of John Canemaker, a preeminent animation teacher, filmmaker, author and historian, who won an Oscar® for his animated short The Moon and the Son in 2006.

A selection of short films spanning Canemaker’s career will be shown including Confessions of a Stardreamer, Bridgehampton, The Wizard’s Son, Otto Messmer and Felix the Cat, The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation, and Bottom’s Dream.

The program will be shown again on the following dates:

Thursday, May 3, 11:59 pm
Tribeca Cinemas – Theater 2
54 Varick Street (Below Canal Street, at Laight Street)

Sunday, May 6, 10:30 am
AMC Kips Bay Theater 14
570 Second Avenue (at 32nd St.)

Trying to be the Alternative Tribeca Film Festival is
the BE Film Festival (formerly known as the Tribeca Underground Film Festival).
They’re screening a number of shorts – both live and animated.
These are the animated films scheduled:

Wednesday May 2
The Park Avenue Screening Room
7:00-9:00pm

Tony is stupid, animation (1:00), Dir. Dir.Sean Mc Bride
Loom, animation (5:00), Dir. Scott Kravitz
Tempolis, animation (10:00), Dir. Manu Gomez

Wednesday May 2
The Bryant Park Hotel Screening Room
7:00-9:00pm

Men, Women, & Capitalism, animation (7:00), Dir. Yuzuke Murakami
Sideshow, animation (5:00), Dir. Lisa LaBracio

Thursday May 3
The Park Avenue Screening Room
7:00-9:00 pm

Pilgrim, animation (3:00), Dir. Matthew Darragh
Road Test, animation (4:00), Dir. Matthew Lee

Thursday May 3
The Bryant Park Hotel Screening Room
7:00-9:00 pm

Apocalypse Cow, animation (3:00), Dir. Kartik Mohan

Friday May 4
The Park Avenue Screening Room
7:00-9:00 pm

The Country, animation (2:00), Dir. Brady Baltezore
The Mole, animation (13:00), Dir. Victric Thng
Koda, animation (6:00), Collective

Friday May 4
Bryant Park Hotel Screening Room
7:00-9:00 pm

Bones, animation (4:00), Dir. Shinsaku Hidaka
Reproduction 3075, animation (1:00), Dir. Ondrej Rudavsky
Teat Beat of Sex,animation (4:00), Dir. Signe Baumane
The Return of Sergeant Pecker, animation (3:00), Dir. Pierre Delarue
Missed Connection, animation (1:00), Dir. Paul Haber

Saturday May 5
Bryant Park Hotel Screening Room
7:00-9:00 pm

Hyacinthe, animation (4:00), Dir. Joann Sfar & Kerascoet
One D, animation (5:00), Dir. Mike Grimshaw

. . . . . . Images from The World Before The Deluge. (Thanks to Boing Boing)

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