Animation, Experiment  #1 | Hossein Moradizadeh
Oct 23,2017, 6 – 8 pm
New Media Projects

In fall 2017, New Media Society starts a series of sessions dedicated to experimental animation. Animation, Experiment Series is a screening and talk events for the visual study and contextual analysis of experimental animation, doing so examples will be selected with a thematic approach.

For the first session under the theme of  “abstract animation,” we will look at the works of “Hossein Moradizadeh” with the presence of Dr. Fatemeh Hosseini Shakib (Tehran Art University). Hossein Moradizadeh, painter and animation filmmaker, graduated of animation-direction (BA)  from the University of IRIB (1987-1992), has been a member of the jury for the animation section at the house of cinema festival (2002, 2007,2014 and 2015). Since 2007, he has made several short films/series and also a cinematic stop-motion trilogy called The Legend of Mardoush.

His films have been shown in more than 40 international animation festivals and have won numerous awards and their techniques vary from stop-motion to two-dimensional and sub-camera stroke. In the upcoming session series of his short experimental films, followed by a talk and a Q&A.

Film program:

Life
The loneliness of a Tree
Nightmare
Dots
Kafka
The song of Gabriel
The Owl (Based on Blind Owl by Sadeq Hedayat)

The session will be held in Persian.

There is a suggested donation of 10.000 tomans to support the project.