ANIMATOR RETROSPECTIVES - SEAF 2021
Sunday, November 14, 2021 7:00 PM EST 

​Retrospectives of short animated films by Réka Bucsi (Hungary), Jean-Charles Mbotti Malolo (France) and Caleb Wood (United States). Programming will include pre-recorded interviews with the animators.
Réka Bucsi, born in 1988, is a hungarian independent animation filmmaker. She received her BFA and MFA at the animation department of ​Moholy-​Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest.​ Her graduation film ‘Symphony no. 42’, got Shortlisted for the Oscars in 2014. Her films were screened at official shorts competition Berlinale, SXSW, Sundance, Annecy,​ and won over 50 international awards. 2013/2014 she attended Animation Sans Frontiéres (ASF), the European Animation Production Workshop. She was an artists in residence at the Open Workshop in Viborg - Denmark, and at Q21 in Vienna - Austria. Réka’s debut short film ‘LOVE’ was nominated for best short film at the European Film Awards 2017. Her new short film Solar Walk premiered at the Berlinale 2018, and won the Audi Short Film Award. Réka is represented as a director by Passion Pictures. passion-pictures.com
Works Featured: Symphony No. 42 (Hungary, 10 min), Love (Hungary, 14 min) Solar Walk (Hungary, 21 min)
Jean-Charles Mbotti Malolo graduated from the animation film section of Emile Cohl school in 2007. His student film The Heart is a Metronome received the Hiroshima film festival’s Debut Price in 2008. Even though drawing was his first passion, dance has always been part of his way of expression. He joined his first dance company in 2008. The love he has for drawing and movement in general drove him once again to explore the bridges between the two. He got introduced to sign language in 2011 and started learning it the next year in order to write The Sense of Touch. The film received several international prices. The Words, his first choreographed piece took shape in 2017. The narrative form continued to follow the path of non-verbal communication.  On his recent short film Make it Soul, Simon Roussin gontributed art direction, and he co-wrote the piece with Nicolas Pleskof and Amaury Ovise. The film was nominated for the French Oscar of the Best Animated Short in 2020. His lastest work Ex Aequo!, is a hybrid documentary TV series about discrimination athletes faced during their careers. jeancharlesmbottimalolo.tumblr.com
Works Featured: Le Sens du Toucher (France, 15 min), Waves (France, 1 min), North by Northwest (France, 1 min), Make it Soul (France, 15 min)
Caleb Wood is a U.S. based multidisciplinary artist, with a primary focus in animation and movement. His work touches on a wide range of themes from childish delusion, euphoric consumption, analytical dissection, and technique explorations. kbibwod.com

Works Featured: Auto Play (United States, 2.5 min), Dana Williams - One More (United States, 3 min), Dumb Run (United States, 1.5 min), Yield (United States, 1.5 min), Anon Mation (United States, 7 min), Stay Home (United States, 5.5 min), Mobile (United States, 2 min), Lightning Bolt - Blow to the Head (United States, 3 min), Goodbye Rabbit, hop hop (United States, 4 min), Plumb (United States, 3 min), Little Wild (United States, 3.5 min)