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2004 Red Shift Program: January 15, 2004
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Signe Baumane was born in Latvia. At
the age of 18 she went to Moscow where she obtained a BA in Philosophy.
In 1989 she worked in Riga’s Animated Film Studio as a cell painter
and a part-time animator. From 1991 to 1995 she made three films on Latvian
Government Grants. By 1995, tired of waiting and fighting for government
grants, she moved to New York, looking for independence. Here she studied
with one of the best teachers of Animated Independence - Bill Plympton,
Working on 3 of his features and countless shorts, Signe learned how an
independent animation studio works. In 1998 she made her first animated
film on American soil. To date, she had made 8 animated shorts.
Alexander Gelman is one of the most
influential and innovative designers in the world today. Utilizing traditional
graphic design, fine arts, and interactive media, his work is housed in
the permanent
collections of the MoMA and Cooper Hewitt Museums in New York. As founder
of Design Machine, his cross
disciplinary design consultancy, he has produced designs for brands including:
Absolut Vodka, MTV, IBM, Shiseido, and United Airlines; designed watches
for Swatch; and contributes regularly to The New York
Times. He is also the best selling author of Subtraction, a book on his
unique design philosophy. Gelman also teaches at MIT Media Lab and Yale.
Boris Frumin M.F.A., State Institute
of Cinema, Moscow. Writer, Director. At the Leningrad Film Studio, Lenfilm,
directed feature films A Diary of a School Principal (1975) and A Melodrama
of One Family (1976). His third film, The Errors of Youth (1978), was
banned by Soviet censors. In 1989, was invited to Leningrad to finish
The Errors of Youth. It was shown at the New Directors, New Films Festival
at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It was also part of Un Certain
Regard at the Cannes Film Festival in 1989 and was screened at theLondon
and Edinburgh Film Festivals. In 1991, scripted, coproduced, and directed
the feature film Black & White. It was shown at Sundance Film Festival,
Utah; Rimini Film Festival, Italy, where it received second prize; and
Mannheim Film Festival, Germany, where it received the Public Prize. In
1993, scripted and directed the feature film Viva Castro!
Slava Tsukerman has directed more then
50 films of different genres in Russia, Israel and US He has received
13 awards from numerous international film festivals. Tsukerman's cult
classic film Liquid Sky was described by VIRGIN FILM GUIDE as "one
of the most original and hallucinatory films in memory…a stunning
cultural collage". Liquid Sky has broken all the box office and duration
records in USA and all over the World. Tsukerman's documentary Once Upon
a Time There Were Russians in Jerusalem, was a first prize winner at the
Tenth World Festival of TV films in Hollywood. Israeli newspaper HAOLAM
HASE described it as "One of the most outstanding films that had
ever appeared on Israeli Television, and possibly the very best. "
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