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Pixar's Darla Anderson (rt), one of the top earning producers in history, receives an Oscar for 'Coco'. photo courtesy: Pixar
Steve Beck at Exploratorium
There will be a special presentation at the Exploratorium (Pier 15, San Francisco) on the pioneering video artist Steve Beck, a local artist who lives in Berkeley. Sponsored by Cinema Arts, “Videons: Visions Through Time, 1968–2018” will have Beck in person and show on April 19th at 7:30 p.m.
It highlights the hypnotic and transcendent visuals he created using analogue video synthesizers, live moment, and film/video hybrids. Among the works to be shown are “Cycles”and “Union”, two video-film fusions recently acquired by The Smithsonian Museum's permanent collection of The Moving Image, and “Video Ecotopia” (1976 ,7 min) and “Voodoo Child” (1982, 8 min). Excerpts from some of these works can be viewed here.
Disney’s ‘Frozen’ Is Now Live On Broadway
The Hollywood Reporter says, “pricey production will seem low on inspiration, It ends up being merely adequate, a bland facsimile when it should have been something memorable in its own right.
What’s up at Pixar?
Pixar’s‘ “The Incredibles 2”, which opens June 15th, is an action packed extravaganza, as usual. The trailer can be seen on the internet here.
Darla Anderson Is leaving Pixar after 25 Years. Fresh from receiving an Oscar for “Coco” (2017) longtime Pixar producer Darla K. Anderson is leaving the studio “to pursue other creative and philanthropic endeavors.” She is in the 2008 Guinness Book of World Records for having the highest average movie gross for a producer: $221 million per film.
The Incredibles have their second feature. photo courtesy: Pixar
Careers In Animation
SF State is offering a free seminar on Sunday, April 15th at 1 PM, with the public invited. It will be held at SF State in the Fine Arts Building, 101, Coppola Theatre.
The panelists will be Barakat, Nawwaf, an Animation Director at Electronic Arts who has worked on The Sims series for over ten years. Monica Rodriguez, a Junior Motion Designer at John McNeil Studio and graduate from SF State’s animation program; Kat Alioshin, stop motion animator/director whose credits include “Nightmare Before Christmas”, “James and the Giant Peach” and “Corpse Bride”. Kat has also produced the short “Mermaids on Mars”.