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Tooning Up in Portland
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The first Platform International Animation Festival gets a little gay
by Andy Mangels
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lthough short-play animation festivals like Spike & Mike’s
have appeared at Cinema 21, Portland has never had
a full-on animation festival to call its own. Until now.
The Platform International Animation Festival will
dehut later this month, bringing “premieres and retro
spectives, rare screenings, guest speakers, exhibitions, special events
and screenings for the family, workshops with leading artists, parties,
a picnic and plenty of opportunities for meeting new friends and
like-minded artists," says staffer Alisa MacDonnell. “There will be
something for everyone, from animation professionals to students to
the general public."
Now, in the pages of Just Out, when one says “something for every
one," it had better include the queer community. Enter the debut of
lesbian artist Rose Bond, whose animated installation Intra Muros
(Within the Walls) will explore
gender identity. It premieres
9 p.m. June 28 in the Maytag
Building, 1136N.W. Hoyt St.
Bond’s piece will not be in
contention, as she was on the
selection committee for the
festival’s Animated Installations
Competition, but it will be shown
as part of the evening’s events and
on several additional days.
According to Platform press
materials, “Animated installa
tions use animation within an
environment. Rose Bond was
Lesbian artist Rose Bond has
instrumental in developing the
created an installation
criteria for this new competition.”
exploring gender identity.
Bond says: “In terms of what’s happening in queer culture, gender
ambiguity interests me as an animator. In my new street-sited installa
tion. . d’ve drawn from myself—gesture, body movement and stance—
and found a way to destabilizing gender expectations. Beyond that, the
piece is a metaphor for all those times when creativity is blocked, when
calls don’t come, when chaos is so close.”
And speaking of chaos, what could be more chaotic than lesbian
penguins in prison? Penguins Behind Bars is a new series in development
at Cartoon Network, written by Mabel Maney, author of the Nancy
Clue and the Hardly Boys series of gay spoof sleuth books. Reps from
Penguins Behind Bars’ Hulascope Studios will be in town for the festival.
“This is an important time for animation, with the rapid growth
of technology changing our craft every day," says MacDonnell.
“Aiming to empower fellow artists, we have created a literal Platform
for young and established animators to come together to explore the
new challenges and possibilities that contemporary and future
technologies bring to animation. Whether the animation has been
created for theaters or cell phones or the side of a building, if it is
brilliant and interesting, we will show it. ” ©
The P latform I nternational A nimation F estival will run
June 25 to 30 at locations throughout Portland. Every day is ¡tacked
with screenings and interactive events, many of which are kid-friendly.
For more information on how to get tickets, go to
www.ftlatformfestival.com. You can see a "trailer” for Bond’s
installation piece at www.pnca.edu/exposure/stories/l98/Tose-bond .
For a two-minute trailer of Penguins visit www.penguinsbehindbars.ca.
Best-selling author ANDY M anoels has ¡traduced special features for
dozens of animated DVDs and wrote the book Animation on DVD:
The Ultimate Guide.
Penguins Behind Bars: It’s like Happy Feet meets Oz.
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