Plastic Paper: CODE IN MOTION: EARLY COMPUTER ANIMATION
May 18, 2011 
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PLASTIC PAPER: WINNIPEG’S FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED, ILLUSTRATED + PUPPET FILM presents
CODE IN MOTION: EARLY COMPUTER ANIMATION
Curated by Clint Enns | Various Artists | 84min. Presented by Video Pool Media Arts Centre
Saturday May 7th, 2011 – 7:00pm Park Theatre – 698 Osborne Admission $7
The works in this program explore both the mathematical precision of computer graphics, as well as the uncontrolled, the uncontrollable and the random. Included are both early examples of experimental and narrative computer animated films including work by John Whitney, Sr., John Stehura, James Whitney, Stan Vanderbeek and Kenneth Knowlton, Lillian Schwartz, Pierre Hébert and Peter Foldès. As an added bonus, an innovative computer generated commercials produced by Robert Abel and Associates will be shown between each film. Includes the films:
Catalog – John Whitney, Sr., 1961, 7 minutes
Cybernetik 5.3 (1960-65) – John Stehura, 1965, 8 minutes
Lapis – James Whitney, 1966, 10 minutes
Poemfield no.2 – Stan Vanderbeek and Kenneth Knowlton, 1966, 6 minutes
The Artist and The Computer – Lillian Schwartz, 1976, 11 minutes
Around Perception–Pierre Hébert, 1968, 16 minutes
Metadata– Peter Foldès, 1971, 8 minutes
La Faim– Peter Foldès, 1974, 11 minutes
Various Robert Abel Commercials, Various Dates, 7 minutes
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Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, female viagra next day delivery publisher, producer, acquisitions executive for Severin Films and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure (2024), House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and has been an editor on numerous books indian generic levitra including Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015). She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021), and produced the acclaimed blu-ray box sets All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (2021) and The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle (2023).
