Online Talk - Collage Animation: Then & Now

Lisa Barcy is an independent filmmaker and artist whose animated films have been screened internationally at film and animation festivals. She has been awarded the Director’s Citation thrice at The Black Maria Film Festival, and Best Animation at both the Chicago Underground Film Festival and The Ann Arbor Film Festival. She’s also created the music videos for Andrew Bird and Thomas Comerford. Previously, she created large-scale puppets for Chicago theater companies including Redmoon Theater and Cabinet of Curiosity Events. While working on a film about 10 years ago, she accidentally began making collages and has been cranking them out ever since. Her new film The Ephemeral Orphanage, a combination of found images and stop-motion animation and is currently making the festival rounds. She teaches animation at DePaul University. More of her work can be seen at lisabarcy@squarespace.com or at https://www.instagram.com/lbarcy

Bryan Konefsky is a cultural worker dedicated to the advancement of independent, experimental media arts through his work as moving image artist, teacher, lecturer and film festival director. He teaches moving image production and critical studies in the Department of Cinematic Arts at the University of New Mexico, where he was honored in 2009 with a university-wide Teacher of the Year award.

Konefsky is artistic director of Experiments in Cinema, an annual international film festival in Albuquerque that showcases cinematic experimentation from around the world. He serves as a panelist for the New Mexico Film Office’s New Visions filmmaking awards, he is a member of the board of advisors for the Ann Arbor Film Festival (the oldest experimental festival in the United States), a guest curator for the Southwest Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and an experimental film judge for Videofest sponsored by the Dallas Video Association in Texas. Konefsky lectures at colleges and universities internationally, among them the University of Applied Sciences in Wurzburg, Germany, the University of Pisa in Italy, The Smolny Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia, the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada; the University of California at Santa Cruz, Ohio University, and the University of Michigan.

Konefsky’s work has been published by Peripheral Produce, Incite, The Appropriation Alliance, Precious Real , The Alternative Film/Video Festival in Belgrade, and Otherzine.

His moving image work has been supported by grants from the McCune Charitable Foundation, New Mexico Arts, The National Endowment for the Humanities, The Trust For Mutual Understanding, The National Endowment for the Arts, and the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. His own films and installations have been presented internationally at venues such as Blinding Light Cinema in Vancouver, the Videoex Festival in Switzerland, the Erarta Museum for Contemporary Art in Russia, the Paris Underground Film Festival in France, Cinema Ritrovato in Italy, the Oslo Film Institute in Norway, the European Media Arts Festival in Germany, the Long Beach Museum of Art in California, and the premiere experimental film venues in New York City, Anthology Film Archives and Millennium Film Workshop.