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International Animation at the next Coastside Film Society screening

Joe Devlin, Neighbor
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For the fourth year in a row, The Coastside Film Society has called upon the famous animation scholar and collector, Karl Cohen, to curate an evening of world class shorts to screen in Half Moon Bay.

This year Karl has dipped into his vaults looking for great international shorts that exhibit a wide range of techniques and new creative approaches to storytelling. Karl warns that this is not a kid's program full of cute silly animals. "Here my goal was to pick brilliant, contemporary, award-winning animated shorts that invite you to think deeply and are guaranteed to amaze an adult and teen audience.”

Some of the films are fascinating puzzles.

  • In Mt. Head (Japan) a swallowed cherry seed sprouts and takes root in a man’s head.
  • Luminaris (Argentina) brings us a world controlled by light.
  • In The Fantastic Flying Books (US) literary works live.                      
  • Romance (Canada) makes us think hard about love.
 Films with more political content or great humor include:
  • Body Beautiful (England) about a woman who becomes a role model.
  • Adam and Dog (USA) tells the tale of Adam’s other companion.
  • Black Hula (Canada) journey to a once beautiful tropical paradise.
  • Jumping (Japan) lets us see the world from a child’s perspective.
  • In Morning Stroll (England) a New Yorker & a chicken go for a walk.
                             
Karl Cohen will lead a discussion about his selection of films after the program. This is a guy with deep roots in the animation biz. He is one of the world’s best known animation historians and collectors, a professor of animation history at San Francisco State, author of countless articles and books about animation and a long-time leader of the international animation organization, ASIFA. He will gladly sign one of his books or regale you with stories about your favourite cartoon character or the animator who brought it to life.

More into at: www.HMBFilm.org


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