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QUESTION: How did you come to make this film? JOANNA QUINN: I went to art college to study graphics and did animation most of the time I was there. I started Girls Night Out at college but it was unfinished when I left. It took a further two years to complete which means I worked … Read more

Q: The animation seems so realistic it could almost be done in live-action. Why did you choose to make it so realistic? PL: Strangely enough I did try to take it further away from reality. The figures are extreme, like Fellini, but somehow the end effect is curiously natural. One was as thin as a … Read more

Q: You make a reference to Bogart and Wells, a general reference to that kind of movement. AH: Most of the references are to Greed by Von Stroheim. The Dr. Matigue character is from Greed. The idea was to have the hunt and chase mixed up with Sierra Madre. Then, because the actor who was … Read more

Report by Neil Carstairs The main theme? Publicity for this year’s Festival stated that a theme running through many programmes would be ‘the rather neglected question of narrative and story telling in animation.’ Having seen over 100 films in five days of screenings the only conclusion I can come to is that neglected was the … Read more

Report from David Jefferson The Cambridge Animation Festival ran from the Tuesday evening to the Sunday evening. I went along for the weekend shows. The 1985 festival has been billed as the ‘new look’. Festival Director Irene Kotlarz said: “The aim of this new regime has been to make this year’s Festival entertaining and thought-provoking. … Read more

Now in its 25th year and with the prestige of being the birthplace of ASIFA which is also 25 years old, the Annecy Animation Festival had something to celebrate, writes David Jefferson. Last June’s festival was the biggest yet, and they had clearly put a great deal of work into staging it, but people were … Read more

The major Festival prizes were allocated by the international jury of six. The audience were also given a chance to vote for their favourite film. In the case of the film Een Griekse Tragedie both the public and the jury were in agreement. It won the Grand Prix and the Prix du Public. Een Griekse … Read more

Top left: Dalias Iook I Heroic Times. Jozsel Gdmes, Hongrie Middle left: The International Jury. Left to right: Stanislas Sokolov (USSR), Jan Svankmajer (Czech), Louise Beaudet (Canada), Michel Ciment (France), Benny Carter (USA), Michel Ocelot (France). Photo Banc-Tjtre. Bottom left: Gwen (Le Livre de Sable). Jean Francoise Laquione. France. Top right: Festival logo. Upper middle … Read more

Top left: Marie-Noëlle Provent, President of the International Animated Film Centre. Middle left: Phil Austin and Derek Hayes, Britain. Bottom left: An Annecy street scene. Top right: A Greek Tragedy by Nicole Van Goethem. Grand Prix winner at Annecy 1985. Middle right: The Festival hall. Bottom right: Carnival, Susan Young, Britain. page 1 | page … Read more

The Special Jury Prize was shared by two seasoned filmmakers, Ishu Patel of Canada and Rein Raamat of the USSR. Patel’s film Paradise is the tale of a rather ordinary looking blackbird who longs to be like the birds of paradise that live in a glittering palace. He dresses up to look like the birds … Read more