キャロライン・リーフ

キャロライン・リーフ Caroline Leaf(アメリカ、カナダ、イギリス)

履歴:
In 1984, the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences organized a mammoth event with 50 critic and filmmaker judges from all over the world. All animated films ever made were judged in this international 'Olympic' competition, and Caroline Leaf's film The Street came in second, winning comfortably over Disney and all other commercial productions. ~JC
Caroline Leaf's animated films are renowned for their emotional content and graphic style, closely tied to the innovative animation techniques that she has invented. Her storytelling films flow fluidly with a handcrafted sensibility. They are made by manipulating beach sand on a lightbox or fingerpainting on glass under the camera lens, and scratching directly into film emulsion.
Leaf began to make animated films as a student at Harvard University in Boston in 1968. Her first film, Sand or Peter and the Wolf, was made with a pailful of local beach sand poured out onto a lightbox and lit from below to create a world of moving shadowy figures. Her subsequent films are refinements and extensions of this handcrafted under-the-camera technique.
In 1972 Leaf moved to Montreal at the invitation of the National Film Board of Canada, a publicly funded Canadian production center which allows it's filmmakers considerable creative freedom. It is renowned for its animation. There she worked as a staff animator/director until 1991. She also became a naturalized Canadian citizen. Her major animated films from these years are: The Owl Who Married a Goose (1974) is an adaptation of an Inuit legend, The Street (1976) received an Academy Award nomination and is adapted from a short story by Mordecai Richler, The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa (1977) adapted from Franz Kafka's story was begun with a grant from the American Film Institute, Interview (1979) is an autobiographical collaboration with director Veronika Soul, Two Sisters (1990) is an original story and is etched in the layers of 70mm film emulsion.
Leaf was designer, story adaptor and/or scriptwriter for all of her films, and worked closely on the sound and editing.
As well as doing animation, she made short documentary and live action films at the Film Board. She made several set designs for a Montreal theater company, Bouffon de Boullion. She constructed large moving wind sculptures, and kept her drawing skills honed by actively drawing on the side. She also travelled worldwide showing her films and giving workshops. Honors include: being a jury member for international animation festivals in Cracow Poland, Annecy France, Varna Bulgaria, and Ottawa Canada. She had a Cineprobe retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art, has been a guest of the Israel Film Archive and Cinemateque in Jerusalem, and, as a guest of the Union of Soviet Filmmakers toured the former Soviet Union with her films. She and her films were featured at the American Film Institute Lanz Seminar of Animation in Los Angeles, and her films ran for 2 weeks at the Film Forum in New York. She was honored with a Guardian Lecture at the National Film Theater in London and her sand animation technique is on display at London's Museum of the Moving Image.
In 1996 she received a ,b>Life Achievement Award from Zagreb International Animation Festival. In 1999 The British Film Institute, under the Connoisseur art label, released a commercially available compilation video of her animated films.
Her film awards include: Academy Award Nomination (1977) for The Street, Grand Prix at the Ottawa International Animation Festival (1976) for The Street, which was also chosen 2nd Best Film of all time in the world by the Olympiad of Animation in Los Angeles (1984), Grand Prix at the International Festival of Short Films Cracow, Poland (1978) for The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa, Grand Prix at Melbourne (1980) for Interview amd Grand Prix at the 4th Los Angeles International Animation Celebration (1991) for Two Sisters, which also won the Grand Prix at Ottawa International Animation Festival (1992).
Leaf's teaching experience includes many hands on workshops in animation, including one for children at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and for animation students at The Royal College of Art in London and the National Film and Television School near London. She taught an 8 week course in her techniques of animation at the Queensland College of Art in Brisbane, Australia (1994). Her main teaching experience was from 1996 - '98 when she taught the animation course at Harvard University.
Leaf has had commercial animation affiliations with Colossal films in San Francisco and Acme Filmworks in Los Angeles. In Montreal she worked commercially for Pascal Blais Productions. Today she lives mainly in London, England where she has a UK artist visa allowing her to work in animation and keep a studio for painting.

フィルモグラフィー:
1969 SAND OR PETER AND THE WOLF
1971-72 two clips for chilren's TV
1972 ORFEO
1972 HOW BEAVER STOLE FIRE
1974 The Owl Who Married a Goose(がちょうと結婚したふくろう
1976 The Street(ストリート
1977 The Methamorphosis of Mr. Samsa(ザムザ氏の変身
1978 intro for TV program
1979 Interview(インタビュー、共同監督)
1986 THE FOX AND THE TIGER
1990 Entre Deux Soeurs/Two Sisters(姉妹
1991 I MET A MAN
1995 BRAIN BATTLE
1995 RADIO ROCK DETENTE
1996 DRAPEAU CANADA
1998 ABSOLUT LEAF
2001 ODYSSEUS & OLIVE TREE

その他の作品:
1981 KATE AND ANNA MCGARRIGLE(ドキュメンタリー)
1981 THE RIGHT TO REFUSE?(ドラマ、脚本)
1982 AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY(ドラマ、演出、共同脚本)
1983 PIES(プロデュース)
1983 WAR SERIES title(共同監督)
1985 THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT 04:00(ドラマとアニメーション、デザイナー、監督、プロデュース)
1986  A DOG'S TALE(実写とアニメーション)
1988 PARADISE FOUND(アニメーター)
1993 BELL PARTOUT(アニメーター)
1994 FLEAY'S FAUNA CENTRE(実写とアニメーション)

関連サイト:
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