Talk of Gary Thomas : Experimental Filmmaking and Animation in the UK
Wed 02 Jul 2014, 4 pm
Big Hall, Goethe Institut
From DOCLAB:
You’re invited to a talk with British Council film advisor Gary Thomas on experimental filmmaking and animation in the UK. Among the talk’s topics, Gary will introduce Animate Projects, a commissioning agency producing content for online/digital, cinema, broadcast and galleries, that he founded and developed; use Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s ‘A Letter to Uncle Boonmee’ and other examples of how artists work in collaboration, and internationally; and talk about the history/context of experimental filmmaking in the UK.
Gary Thomas was previously the Head of Moving Image for Arts Council England, leading on policy and strategy development for arts distribution, broadcasting and visual arts. He subsequently founded Animate Projects to run the Channel 4/ACE Animate TV scheme, which he developed to become a commissioning agency producing content for online/digital, cinema, broadcast and galleries. His productions/commissions include Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s short A Letter to Uncle Boonmee which won the Oberhausen Grand Prix and formed part of the development of the Cannes Palme d’Or winning feature project Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.
Free entrance.
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