Thank you to everybody who made MinnAnim8 to great!
Here are photos of the Youth/Student animators talking about their work:
Here are photos from the Independent Animator discussion.
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MinnAnim 8 Biographies
Emory Allen, Alicia Allen
Foreign Fauna is the independent animation studio of directors Alicia Allen and Emory Allen. Foreign Fauna is our outlet to express ideas that move us through a medium that we love.
Trevor Adams
Trevor expresses his regret over not being able to attend this awesome experience– he’s always inspired by the sweat, blood, and labors of love which make up contributions and sequencing of this festival.
John Akre
John Akre is an animator and videomaker and teaching artist who takes stop motion animation to various places with his Sloppy Films Animation Station. He creates animation and documentary video with his wife Beth Peloff as Green Jeans Media. He teaches animation at Hamline University and Film North and organizes MinnAnimate.
Lukas Anderson
Lukas Anderson is an animator from Saint Paul MN, currently residing in Los Angeles CA.
Hallie Bahn
Hallie Bahn is an animator, interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Bahn received her MFA in interdisciplinary practices from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and her work has screened internationally.
Grace Bauer
Grace Bauer is a Digital Media Arts Student at Hamline University and is from Hastings, Minnesota. She enjoys creating things and the sense of accomplishment after finishing a big project, but even more than that, she loves the artistic process it takes to get there. #SaveTheEarth
Sishir Bommakanti
Sishir Bommakanti is an illustrator and animator who works in the genre of the absurd, surreal and fantasy. His work is inspired by the dark corners of human psyche and threads into the fringe.
Dana Conroy
Dana Conroy studied filmmaking at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA. She’s directed and produced several popular film festival selections such as Fire & Light (2017), Adventure Unknown (2016), and Xenos (2015). She’s won 7 Emmy awards and a Golden Bell Award (Campana del Oro) for Movistar’s commercial Lost in Montevideo (2016). Choosing to reside in rural Minnesota, Dana enjoys making cultural documentaries for underserved regions at a PBS station.
Thao Doan
Minneapolis local who loves to animate!
Robert Jersak
Robert Jersak is an educator and independent animation and documentary artist.
Tyler Leininger
Tyler Leininger is a Senior at Hamline University studying Digital Media arts and studio art. He enjoys a variety of different mediums, including digital painting, photography, film, and most recently, animation.
Wayne Nelsen
Wayne Nelsen has made over 100 animated videos.
Peter Bonde Becker Nelson
Peter Bonde Becker Nelson teaches New Media Art at St. Olaf College. Examining themes of gender, aging, class, and identity, Nelson records and interprets the personal narratives of his friends, family, and self. His work delves into the nuances of human connection — love, friendship, intimacy, frustration and loss.
Mike Owens, Wendie Owens
Born in the Appalachian mountains, schooled in Chicago, trained in the ancient arts of pencil and paper animation, Emmy winning animator MIKE OWENS has manifested a Hollywood career while maintaining a Midwest lifestyle.
Beth Peloff
Beth Peloff is a video maker and teacher who works in both animation and documentary. Her films have played at film festivals regionally and nationally. She is a 2017 recipient of the Jerome Foundation Film and Video Grant.
Maret Polzine
Maret Polzine is a filmmaker and arts organizer living and working in the Twin Cities. They are the founder of Video Variant, the host of Cinema Lounge, and a teaching artist with COMPAS.
Carolyn Schmit
I have been animating for 4 years, and a huge fan of cartoons and animated films. A lot of projects I do are animation collaborations on Youtube. I am attending Century College Fall of 2019 for their 3D Animation program. Watch more animations by me here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmhUtDye5ErqvOse7Y1UpaA?view_as=subscriber
Colin Stanhill
Colin Stanhill is a self-taught animator working in Minneapolis. He draws all his films by hand on paper. According to Malcolm Turner, of the Melbourne International Animation Festival, he is “quite a lucid sort of fellow.”
Molly Parker Stuart
Molly Parker Stuart is a visual artist living and working in Minneapolis. Her work has been covered by The Creators Project and Animal New York and has been exhibited widely. Molly’s work uses social and digital structures to create a felt experience.
Rowan Thompson
I am a young filmmaker from Saint Paul Minnesota, my first film I made was in 2014, it was a 2 minute Lego stop motion video titled “The Legend of Jeff” I was 11 at the time.
MinnAnim8 Youth/Student Showcase
Here are the films in the MinnAnim8 Youth/Student Showcase, at 6:45 pm on September 12 at the Film Society of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
The Midnight Caller
by Tyler Leininger
Audio taken from the Coen brother’s film “The Midnight Caller” talks about the motivation behind our consumption of media.
Animation Reel (2017 – 2019)
by Rowan Thompson
This is my submission for the minnanimate 2019. It is a collection of my best stop motion films from 2017 – 2019. The oldest one being the candy one at the beginning most recent one being Swedish Fish.
From Film North 2019 Stop Motion Animation Camp
The Boring Mission to Earth by Isaiah and James
Diamond Dilemma by Ava and Syan
From Film North 2019 After Effects Camp
Hello by Tess
Abstract Waves by Willa
Riptide by Astrid
From Film North 2019 Creative Cloud Animation Camp
The Great Escape by Ella
Pets and Pandemonium by Carson
Grumpy Dog by Nina
Goblins Do Not Like Puppies
by Carolyn Schmit
A sleeping goblin is woken up from his nap by an unpleasant surprise.
A Blacksmith’s Fire
by Var
A Blacksmith, Coal and Diamond make some great things together.
Madi The Crabby: Madi and Mary go to the Beach
by Grace Bauer
Madi the crab and Mary the raccoon are roommates who want to find something fun to do. They go to the beach and it’s a mess, so the cleaning up commences. This piece comments on the “save the planet” movement from the perspective we don’t hear enough of: animals’.
The Couch
by Thao Doan
When some thing lurks underneath your couch, be careful when you rage quite.
Puppy Dog, I Love You
by Lukas Anderson
A sad pig who doesn’t speak finds happiness from the help of his friends.
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MinnAnim8 Independent Animation Showcase
Here is the MinnAnim8 Independent Animation Showcase, which will be presented on Thursday, September 12 at 7:30 pm.
Pah-tay-toe
Mike Owens, Wendie Owens
Having your own point of view may not make you fit in, but it can make you king of planet potato.
Regiment
Wayne Nelsen
A music video for the Barcelona-based band, Seward.
Maya Bdeg’a
Dana Conroy
A true family story of a heroic pelican takes shape on the banks of Lake Traverse as unwanted visitors approach.
Childhood
Wayne Nelsen
Poet Gretchen Marquette remember her childhood.
Letters from Pickle
Robert Jersak
On July 26th, 2017, Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced that the president had made a friend. We imagine that their correspondence continued.
Habitual
Hallie Bahn
“Habitual” is an animated vignette, which explores the doldrums of office labor.
A self-portrait, the animation was created by hand rotoscoping footage of the filmmaker performing. By refusing to generalize any movements, the piece illustrates the minutiae of administrative behaviors in frame by frame detail.
Her Mother’s Eyes
Emory Allen
For those of us without the gift of a green thumb, we can only standby, helpless as our beloved house plants fade away. If only there was an ER for little green buddies!
née Rabbit
Hailie Bahn
née Rabbit confronts the mind’s struggle to maintain a true identity even as our memory begins to fade. Can we continue to know ourselves when we have no recollection of our past actions and reactions? Do we adapt our identity to incorporate this loss into our life’s story? Or do we resign ourselves to wake up each day anew and if so, who are we?
You Are Here
Robert Jersak
“You’re out here. You’re exactly where you’re supposed to be.” You Are Here is an animated experimental meditation – 112 seconds to break away from whatever you’ve gotten yourself tangled up in lately.
Underground
Beth Peloff
A lonely person unexpectedly takes a journey to reconnect with life.
Object Permanence
Maret Polzine
Anxiety; intrusive thinking; running around in circles
Indirect Animation
Colin Stanhill
Made with only 12 pages of standard copy paper, this is Colin’s greenest work to date! Let this lo-fi imitation of 35mm film take you on a microscopic voyage through telescoping tunnel visions in Full Two-Tone Color!!
Stone Witch
Molly Stuart
I am stone: solid, heavy. Sometimes I sink in space, falling and filling and scraping through, curving and curling into it. Sometimes I fall into a space that provides refuge.
The Hole in the Sky
John Akre
Somewhere, up there, is a hole in the sky. But we have not found it yet.
Hot! Cro-Croa
Sishir Bommakanti
Hot Cro-Croa! Jonnaman Gripthurst, a lonely boneless man recounts his adventures in the big city as he get a mysterious pop-up when surfing the dark web. A TV Spot for a popular drink called Cro-Croa, and its premier of its new flavor: Hot! Cro-Croa. Animated and directed by: Sishir Bommakanti, Additional animation by: Jacob Berrier, Music by: Slowya.roll and Post Everything Production, In collaboration with Post Everything Production and The Story Must Be Told
Dragon Boat Fest
Trevor Adams
My tribute to the Vietmom war
Intruder Man
Peter Nelson
As a young woman, Jessie faces the wrath of an authoritarian superintendent who blacklists her from teaching. As an elderly woman, Alzheimer’s disease makes her paranoid of an “intruder man” who haunts her apartment. Slipping between these parallel periods, Jessie remains persistent in the face of sexism, loss, and dementia.
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