| World Festival of Animated Film – Animafest Zagreb 4 – 9 June 2013 / feature edition Europa cinema, Cineplexx Centre Kaptol Fantastic Response to the Call for Entries Animation goes MSU 2013 Sixteen different animated works will be screened on MSU’s media facade from 29 May to 9 June Zagreb, 25 April 2013 – Fifty-two works from 16 countries submitted an application to the call for entries for Museum of Contemporary Art’s media facade, which is a fantastic success and a motivation to continue the collaboration between Animafest and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MSU), named Animation goes MSU. The opening of these somewhat exotic screenings of 16 different national and international animated works is scheduled for 29 May at 7pm. The screenings will be available to passers-by until the closing of the festival, i.e. 9 June, from 7pm to 11pm. The commendable collaboration between Zagreb’s Museum of Contemporary Art and “the most Zagreb-like of all of Zagreb’s festivals”, simply named Animation goes MSU, attracted great interest of both Croatian and international animators. As many as 52 works from 16 countries submitted their applications to the call for entries, which is a fantastic success and motivation to continue the collaboration between Animafest and MSU in the future. Among the submitted entries, 16 various animated gems were selected; from 29 May to 9 June they will grace this unique big screen. The selection was made by Animafest’s art director Daniel Šuljić and curator at MSU’s Collection of Film, Video, Photography and Media Art Leila Topić. Due to the specific conditions of this screening/display surface, the works will be screened between 7pm and 11pm.  Z… is for Zagreb The 16 selected works are characterised by the diversity of animation techniques and artistic approaches. They include abstract works like Unfettered by Canadian author Sandra Eber, Kihi-kuhi by Finn Maria Bjoerklund or Ostali tragovi by Swiss-Croatian artist Michaela Müller, as well as narrative films like Choban by Croatian filmmaker Matija Pisačić, Donijela sam kolača by another Croatian author, Ivana Pipal, and We have no tickets by Chinese artist Bao Jian. |
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