| Magazines: AnimationWorld Elmo's World and gangster film animator Joey Ahlbum. All photographs courtesy of Richard OConnor.Less than 12 hours after the ASIFA-East awards wrapped at the New Schools Tishman Auditorium, the same space hosted the federal 9/11 Commission hearings. The one where the audience members pointed out: The CIA funded al Qaeda to the smirking government appointed counsel of millionaires.New York City's Salt and Pepper: Steve Dovas and Ray Kosarin.Look at the winner of the Excellence in Experimental Technique Award, Andaluz by Joanna Priestly and Karen Aqua. Fairly easy on the eyes, if aurally assaulting, technique-wise and in design, its a throwback to 1983. Its like a commission from the Bureau of Spanish Tourism. Experimental is a vague term, but in what dictionary does this meet its conditions?ASIFA (on the east coast of the United States, at least), and perhaps animation on the whole, confused by the constant edicts floating down from Hollywood Hills that 2D is dead has become convinced that the mere picking up of a pencil is an act of rebellion -- that the simple act of drawing not only validates a film but makes it somehow superior. 123next ›last »
