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Cinema Sunday An Afternoon Film Program for Children and Their Families
$6 Children & Youths (under 18) $9 Adults (Cinematheque membership not required) In celebration of Canada’s big 150 (or sesquicentennial), Cinema Sunday patriotically presents “Made in Canada,” a yearlong engagement with family films hailing from the True North! Each month, we’ll screen an all-ages movie that showcases Canada’s extraordinary, diverse talents – both in front of and behind the camera – as well as the cities, landscapes, and cultures that make this country our home. Films will be introduced by Vancouver film history teacher and critic Michael van den Bos.
Marv Newland in Person!
An Afternoon with Animator Marv Newland Hosted by Michael van den Bos Marv Newland, cult director of Bambi Meets Godzilla (1969), is a sui generis talent and one of Canada's most celebrated animators. A graduate of the Art Center College of Design in California – where, as a student, he made his iconic, 90-second midnight-movie masterpiece! – Newland has been an integral part of our country’s enviable animation scene since the founding of his acclaimed Vancouver-based studio International Rocketship Limited in 1975. A stable not only for Newland’s own outré, director-driven works – including Sing Beast Sing (1980) and Black Hula (1988), both preserved by the Academy Film Archive – but also for other West Coast animators' pet projects, the indie studio has created oddball, award-winning cartoons featured on MTV, MuchMusic, Nickelodeon, HBO, BBC, and festival screens around the world! We’re honoured to have the great Marv Newland join us for an afternoon devoted to his work, featuring a selection of films hand-picked by the legendary animator. Bambi Meets Godzilla | 1969. 1 min. DCP Bill Miner Vignette | 1978. 1 min. 16mm Sing Beast Sing | 1980. 9 min. DCP Quick History (Dominion Building) | 198-. 1 min. 35mm Anijam | 1984. 10 min. DCP Hooray for Sandbox Land | 1985. 12 min. 35mm Rocketship Nicks | Marv Newland et al./1987. 1 min. 35mm Black Hula | 1988. 4 min. DCP Beijing Flipbook | 2003. 2 min. DCP Tête à Tête à Tête | 2005. 12 min. DCP Postalolio | 2008. 5 min. 35mm CMYK | 2011. 7 min. DCP Total running time: approx. 65 min. Please note: some content may be unsuitable for younger viewers.
“Animation begins where live-action gives up!” – Kaj Pindal
Kaj Pindal: An Animated Retrospective Danish-born Canadian animator and educator Kaj Pindal (b. 1927) is a gem of the National Film Board of Canada’s world-renowned animation department. With his strong, simple graphics, quirky humour, and whimsical handling of hefty social issues – PSAs were his specialty! – Pindal created, between 1957 and 1988, a body of short films for the Board that evinced a master animator (and satirist) at work. Today, Pindal is perhaps best known as the creator of the Emmy-winning PBS children’s program Peep and the Big Wide World – originally a 1962 NFB short, made from black-and-white drawings on adding-machine tape. But his most acclaimed and accomplished work is undoubtedly the Oscar-nominated What on Earth! (1966), a brilliant, biting commentary on urbanization and the automotive explosion, told from the perspective of a Martian field reporter who, quite rightly, assumes that our planet is inhabited by cars, with human beings their pesky parasites! To celebrate Kaj Pindal’s 90th birthday this year (Happy Birthday, Kaj!), we present a select retrospective of the animator’s eclectic work for the NFB, including his masterpiece What on Earth!, his jazzy art installation for Expo ’70, The City (Osaka) (1970), his imaginative antismoking announcement, King Size (1968), and more! Hors-d’oeuvre | 1960. Kaj Pindal et al./1960 7 min. I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly | Derek Lamb/1964. 5 min. What on Earth! | Les Drew, Kaj Pindal/1966. 9 min. King Size | Kaj Pindal/1968. 6 min. The City (Osaka) | Kaj Pindal/1970. 7 min. Caninabis | Kaj Pindal/1979. 9 min. Peep and the Big Wide World |Kaj Pindal/1988. 34 min Total program: approx. 77 min. SUNDAY, JUNE 18 – 1:00 PM
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