Jisuk Jung and her reflection of modern society

  Jisuk Jung is a Korean multiartist, born in 1980. Her contribution to the animated world started in 2002 and since that then she has been in many festivals around the world with significant important creations.

The popular acclaim has come to her through the French public, a country where in 2004 she made a presentation of her works garnering a phenomenal criticism from the professional sector.

Among her most important references we can highlight a first prize at the "France Flash Festival 2005", the "Internet Festival de Bordeaux", the "Seul Net Festival" and at the "Melbourne Festival" where two of her greatest creations have triumphed: "Reve de Canne" and "The blue glass bird".

The main theme of her work focuses on the loneliness and ecologism, as a reflection of the modern global society.

Always showing her disagreement with the loss of the own culture, she presents in her animation work the concept of loneliness with a feeling of despair, as a search within a socializing conflict.

On the most ecologist side of her work, Jisuk complaints about the human damage to the earth because of its expansionist nature and creates a world that invites us to reflect on the human origin from its most natural side.

Regarding the technique, Jisuk Jung uses a 2D classic, using the drawing as a main tool for developing her work. Despite of this, we can observe in some of her creations 2D computer images mixed with real images.

If you try to make a comparison of the techniques and themes she uses with any other artist, it will be hard not to find an reminiscent of Monique Renault and Hellen Meske on her creations, either in the style or in the rebel and active theme. Despite of this, Jisuk shows a more colorful creation, with more contrasts and great strength. Black, Red, Blue and Yellow seek the contrast with white figures, characteristic in her works.

For a more detailed knowledge of her creation, The International Animation Festival Online "Animacam" presents a special series about this artist with whom you can enjoy 8 of her most significant creations. Enjoy them!

Treeworker

Reve de Canne

Forbidden Games

BlackRainbow

Be my Bride

Crane Elephant

Waiting Palpitating

The blue Glass bird

Forbidden LOST!

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Isabel Herguera, a reference of Spanish animation.

Donostia-San Sebastian, 1961. She discovered animation thanks to a friend who showed her how to work a Bolex camera and gave her his animation equipment. Since then, she has been imagining stories that take place in different parts of the world, on stages that always fit in her luggage.

For years she worked in different animation studios in Los Angeles, USA. In 2003 she returned to Donostia and since then manages ANIMAC, the International Animation Film Festival of Catalonia in Lleida, and gives classes on animation in India, where she escapes to whenever she can to draw in her old notebooks, especially in train stations and bus stops.

Director's filmography

1988 Spain Loves You (16 mm, 5 min. Animation)

1989 Safan (16 mm, 4 min. Animation)

1989 Cante de ida y vuelta (16 mm, 4 min. Animation)

1993 Los muertitos (16 rnm, 10 min. Animation)

2005 La gallina ciega (35 mm, 8 min. Animation)

2010 Ámár (35 mm, 8 min. Animation)

Her last film, "Ámár", tells us the story of Inés who travels to India to visit her friend "Ámár", who was been living in a mental institution for years. Ines remembers the last day they spent together and her promise to return.

 Enjoy with this awared film in Animacam 2011

Animation Women Join in Animacam

This week begins with a special and exclusive mention for the animation women that present their works in Animacam.

To start the week we have the great pleasure to pay a tribute to the growing number of female animators that present their work in Animacam.

Each category sets out at least one work of the women's creations from various countries, and these are summarized as follows:

From Romania comes the short film "How to Deal With nonsense", a work of Veronica Solomon. Does the world always seem to you coherent and compressible? But why to struggle to understand everything when we can joyfully slide through so many layers of nonsense?. The spheric Mother Superior keeps the broth boiling and gems shining. And then ...

 

As a short film and from Argentina, we find it extremely rewarding to introduce "Benteveo". One work of one habitual participant in this fourth edition whose name is Ilenana Gómez Gavinoser, and who will fill the Animacam movie listings with poetry and feeling.

For the multimedia category and from Germany we are pleased to present the film work of Antje Heyn, "Lumo",  is a film about the intereaction between draw and drawer, between two characters and between thinker and thoughts.

 

Also we present the film work of Ingrid Esteve Martín, that from England sends three interesting works of animation. These are:

 

In the multimedia category we have a promotional video to "The Fashion Fix", a virtual success with Second Life that if you want can turn you into the most fashion virtual host ever seen.

Also in this category, she entertains us with a creation to a presentation of Will Wright, "Meme Signal". An interesting proposal, Ingrid!

To remember her days as a student in Spain, Ingrid recalls this time with "El tramposo", a fun and ironic creation that will compete in retrospective category for an award of 600 Euros.

 

For the retrospective category, one more time the figure of Monique Renault will be our protagonist when presenting several classic films, accompanied by Helen Meske as co-director, that show us the most active feminine side of Animation of the 80´s and 90´s. These are the Films of Monique and Hellen:

With "Hand´s off" offer us an educational film which aims to be a stimulus to have a discussion within a broader campaign against wife battering.

"Long live the sexual revolution" nos tell us the story of a man that does a planning and gets prepared to make love with his partner, without worrying about whether the desire is mutually felt. She doesn´t seem to have the same desire as him, or rather not quite exactly the same.

And on her own, Monique shows us with “La Dona e Mobile”,a journey into male fantasies seen though the eyes of a woman, based on the famous opera from Verdi, Rigoleto. The duke of Mantua dreams about nudes, languishing beauties. The women depicted represent famous paintings: Matisse, Ingres, Boticelli, Degas, delighting with the beauty of a pose or the sensuallity of a gesture.

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A tribute of childhood movies to Maite Ruiz de Austri in New York

Source info: CIMA

The Children's Film Festival in New York KidCinemaFest Film,that is held between the 24th and 30th October, will dedicate a retrospective to Maite Ruiz de Austri, the only woman who usually leads animated feature films in Spain.

Maite Ruiz de Austri will receive the recognition of the KidCinemaFest Film Festival from New York in its new edition. The festival will screen some of her films like “El regreso del Viento del Norte”, “Que vecinos tan animales” both awarded with a Goya, "La Leyenda del Unicornio", "Animal Channel" and more recently "El Tesoro del Rey Midas".

The tribute comes just when Maite Ruiz de Austri is preparing her sixth film production, also an animated film named "El extraordinario viaje de Lucius Dumb " and which the issue of Human Rights for Children will be treated .

This is not the fisrt recognition that the creator receives from New York, as in 1988 she won the Silver Medal at the International Television Festival of New York. 

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Students of the Ecole Georges Méliès present their films in Animacam fourth edition (part1)

From the hand of the friends of Premium Films, students of the prestigious French school Georges Méliès present their works in Animacam IV.

To start the week on a high note, as promised, we present the first installment of the works of the French school animators George Méliès.

In this first part, four films of students of this prestigious French school get into the competition in the fourth edition of International Festival of Animation "Animacam". These works will compete in the short film category for a prize of 600 euros accompanied by prestige and international recognition.

In a delivery that will be completed next Wednesday with the release of four other works, from Animacam we have the great pleasure to present:

Carpates Express, a film by Doris Bachelier and Maéva Viricel, who through a mix of 2D-3D tell us the story of an unusual journey of a train's traveler full of fantasy.

Cuisine Jap, Amine Beckoury, David Fernandez and François Dumolin show us a fun alternative to the origin of Japanese cuisine today, identified in the creation of the famous Sushi in a film with a slight allusion to Bushido.

Lucie Mayjonade shows us in his short animated film Haï Puka a journey through the imagination of a girl on an adventure full of tenderness and fantasy endowed with a careful music atmosphere.

Finally, Guilhem Salinas, Jean-Baptiste Bister, Marine Perraudin and Mathieu Goudet de Landres show us the traumatic touchdown of a child with a Kindergarten. A film full of sentiment by which surely more than one will feel identified.

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Travel with Puka through an imaginative and tender world

Know the puzzling adventure of a boy on his first day at kindergarten

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