A Society for Animation Studies (SAS) conference in co-operation with Deutsches Institut für Animationsfilm, Dresden (DIAF) and Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Dresden 13., 14. and 15. April 2005, during the 17th Filmfest Dresden. The conference is over. The papers will be published in 2006. For more information please visit the conference website.
Programme
13. April: 1st Conference day
10.00-10.30: Welcome address: Lutz Dammbeck (Art Academy Dresden), Ton Crone (SAS); Sabine Scholze (DIAF), Hedda Gehm (Ministry of Science and Art of the Land Saxony)
10.30-11.00: Opening Speech: Jeanpaul Goergen*
SESSION 1
Chair: Karin When
11.30-12.00: Ingo Linde: The Demoscene. Programmed Animation Experiments out of the Computer Underground*
12.00-12.30: Volker Petzold: Early East German Animated Films and the Czech Film School, With Special Emphasis on the “Television Sandman” in Both German States*
12.30-13.00: Michael Wedel: Animation Theory and Historiography in Divided Germany. A Comparative Perspective*
SESSION 2
Chair: Daniel Kothenschulte
14.30-15.00: Sylvia Winkelmayer: In search of the Austrian Animated Film*
15.00-15.30: Gunnar Strøm: Tiedemann – Gross – Fischinger – Fischerkoesen: The Norwegian Connection
15.30-16.00: Mette Peters: The Dutch Connection – Interaction Between Dutch and German Animation
SESSION 3
Chair: Sabine Scholze
17.00-17.30: Ralf Forster: After Bad Godesberg, Next Stop USA. West German Advertising Films’ Break With the Past in 1960*
17.30-18.00: Günter Agde: Belated Avant-gardist. On the Latter Works of Hans Fischerkoesen*
18.00-18.15: Volker Petzold: DEFA Animated Film Director Herbert K. Schulz as a Maker of Advertising Films in the East and the West*
21.30-23.00: Film programme Passagen 1, Cinema Metropolis (Cinema 5)
14. April: 2nd Conference day
SESSION 4
Chair: Ralf Forster
10.00-10.30: Sandra Naumann: Visualising music. The Abstract Transposition of Music in Earlier Avant-garde Films and Contemporary Music*
10.30-11.00: Daniel Kothenschulte: Mickeymousing Alice. Paul Dessau, Wolfgang Zeller and the Birth of Animation Scoring in 1920’s Berlin*
11.30-12.00: Ramona Stuckmann: Paradigms of Earlier Artistic Animated Films – Two Works of the Filmmaker Herbert Seggelke: Line-Dot-Ballet (1943) and One Melody – Four Painters (1955)*
12.00-12.30: Annegret Richter: Why Germans Love “The Simpsons”*
SESSION 5
Chair: Gunnar Strøm
14.00-14.30: Paul Wells: Bully Boys, Little Willies, and Lloyd George. British Animation During The Great War
14.30-15.00: David Richard Williams: Gaston Quiribet – The Life and Work of an Almost Unknown French Cameraman, Animator and Director
SESSION 6
Chair: André Eckardt
16.00-16.30: Fatemeh Hosseini-Shakib: Iranian Animation Today: New Horizons
16.30-17.00: Sarah Bowen: East West Borderlands. Landscape in the Films of Jerzy Kucia
17.00-17.30: Nadezhda Mihaylova Marinchevska: The Avant-garde Aesthetic Revolution in the Bulgarian Animation in the 70’s and 80’s
17.00-18.00: Talk with Stanislav Sokolov and Marion Rasche*
21.30-23.00: Film programme Passagen 2, Cinema Metropolis (Cinema 6)
15. April: 3rd Conference day
SESSION 7
Chair: Suzanne Buchan
10.00-11.00: Thomas Schneider-Trumpp: Clayart – History of a Young Animation Company*
11.00-11.30: Dirk Förster: The Dramaturgy of Architecture in Computer Generated Animations. Computer Games as Pioneers for a New Relation Between Figures and Space*
11.30-12.15: Karin Wehn: From Pong to GTA St. Andreas. Constituents of a Model for Animation in Computer Games
SESSION 8
Chair: Günter Agde
13.30-14.15: Jan Kindler: Reconstructing Space as a “Field of Battle”. On the Development and Function of “Animated Maps” in Educational and Cultural Films*
14.15-14.45: Rainer Rother: Animating the Marshall Plan*
SESSION 9
Chair: Paul Wells
15.30-16.00: Valentijn Visch: The Way Genres Move Their Actors. An Empirical Research
16.00-16.30: Suzanne Buchan: Fantastic Architectures of Finsterlin & Co. Realisation, Emulation and Adaptation in Animation Film
16.30-17.00: Marina Estela Graça: Cinematic Motion by Hand
17.45-19.30: Round table discussion: Archiving and Distributing Animation
21.30-23.00: Film programme Passagen 3, Cinema Metropolis (Cinema 5)