Caroline Leaf
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Filmografía
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The Street en DXC
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1946, Seattle, USA. Estudió artes visuales en Radcliffe, una facultad integrada a la Universidad de Harvard.
En 1969 su profesor de pintura la recomendó a Derek Lamb, que enseñaba animación ahí. Primeramente era escéptica frente al medio
hasta que intentó animar arena, descubriendo así la técnica que la caracterizaría y que deslumbraría a Norman McLaren
cuando visita la clase.
La obra de Leaf se caracteriza por su técnica de crear movimiento utilizando una cámara estacionaria, cambiando gradualmente
el tamaño de su dibujo en arena o pintura. Dice que sus recuerdos deben pasar a través de sus ojos y manos para que ella
pueda sentir el movimiento. La animación de arena o pintura le permiten trabajar con metamorfosis y anamorfosis (distorsión de la imagen).
THE OWL WHO MARRIED A GOOSE: An Eskimo Legend (1974)
Dir. Caroline Leaf / Canada / 1974 / 7 mins 38 secs / Sin dialogos.
IMDB
Premios:
[quote]# 10th Annecy International Animation Festival, Annecy, France, 1975
Prix Special 'Emile Renaud'
# Canadian Film Awards, Niagara-on-the-Lake, OntarioÈ, 1975
Etrog for Best Animated Film
# British Academy of Film And TV Arts, London, England, 1976
Nomination for outstanding achievement during 1975
# 25the Melbourne Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia, 1976
Third Prize, Silver Boomerang, Victorian Government Prize
# First Philip Morris International Animation Festival, Melbourne,Sydney,Brisbane, Adelaide, Australia, 1976
First Prize
# Ottawa International Animation Festival, Ottawa, 1976
First Prize in the category 'Films for Children'
# Information Film Producers' Association Convention (IFPA), Hollywood, Cal.,1976
Silver Award
# Cindy Competition, Hollywood, Cal., 1976
Silver Cindy Award (2nd place), Language Arts Category
# 19th Annual American Film Festival, New York, N.Y., 1977
Red Ribbon Award, Language Arts Category
# 2nd International Short Film Festival, Linz, Austria, 1977
First Prize[/quote]
[quote]I made The Owl Who Married A Goose back in the early 1970s, a time when there were no Inuit animators, and the National Film Board of Canada was benevolently trying to tell the stories of all Canadian peoples. I went twice to the Canadian artic to make this film. I chose the story from a written text, and went to Holman Island to work with Nanogak, an Inuit artist who worked for me with cut-outs to suit my sand silhouette animation. While I was there I found out that the old women were great mimics of arctic animal sounds, because as girls they had accompanied their fathers on hunts, where making animal sounds brought the animals within range of the hunters. So, after animating the film in Montreal, I went back to the Arctic, to Broughton Island, with the soundless film and a list of sounds and sound effects I needed. Six old women sat around a microphone and made the sounds and laughed a lot. I got what I wanted, but it was puzzling, uncomfortable work. For example, after I screened the film, which is nine minutes long and involves the eggs of the owl and the goose hatching, one old lady got up and walked out, saying that what the film showed was not true, eggs take two weeks to hatch. I was never sure that I wasn't using the Inuit people. I knew that their stories were truth and history for them, and they didn't tamper with the storytelling or make personal changes. That is why the stories were remarkably the same across thousands of miles of the arctic. And I had had to change the story, to personalize the animals, to make it mine in order to be able to tell it.
- Caroline Leaf -[/quote]
The Owl Who Married a Goose se puede ver en todo su esplendor Aquí, y de paso se puede comprobar la ínfima calidad del ripeo
que aquí posteo, con ese tinte anaranjado, aunque dada la imposibilidad de capturar el streaming del NBF es lo único que hay, que no
es poco, tratandose de un trabajo de la siempre magistral Leaf. Para más inri he necesitado cerca de dos meses para completarlo
(odio dar falsas alarmas) y el archivo en cuestión parece estar en WMV, aunque el GSpot no lo tenga muy claro,
no he intentado recomprimirlo a avi, pero no lo descarto, ya os iré informando.
Caroline Leaf-The Owl Who Married a Goose(1974).avi 
Dir. Caroline Leaf / Canada / 1974 / 7 mins 38 secs / Sin dialogos.
IMDB
Premios:
[quote]# 10th Annecy International Animation Festival, Annecy, France, 1975
Prix Special 'Emile Renaud'
# Canadian Film Awards, Niagara-on-the-Lake, OntarioÈ, 1975
Etrog for Best Animated Film
# British Academy of Film And TV Arts, London, England, 1976
Nomination for outstanding achievement during 1975
# 25the Melbourne Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia, 1976
Third Prize, Silver Boomerang, Victorian Government Prize
# First Philip Morris International Animation Festival, Melbourne,Sydney,Brisbane, Adelaide, Australia, 1976
First Prize
# Ottawa International Animation Festival, Ottawa, 1976
First Prize in the category 'Films for Children'
# Information Film Producers' Association Convention (IFPA), Hollywood, Cal.,1976
Silver Award
# Cindy Competition, Hollywood, Cal., 1976
Silver Cindy Award (2nd place), Language Arts Category
# 19th Annual American Film Festival, New York, N.Y., 1977
Red Ribbon Award, Language Arts Category
# 2nd International Short Film Festival, Linz, Austria, 1977
First Prize[/quote]
[quote]I made The Owl Who Married A Goose back in the early 1970s, a time when there were no Inuit animators, and the National Film Board of Canada was benevolently trying to tell the stories of all Canadian peoples. I went twice to the Canadian artic to make this film. I chose the story from a written text, and went to Holman Island to work with Nanogak, an Inuit artist who worked for me with cut-outs to suit my sand silhouette animation. While I was there I found out that the old women were great mimics of arctic animal sounds, because as girls they had accompanied their fathers on hunts, where making animal sounds brought the animals within range of the hunters. So, after animating the film in Montreal, I went back to the Arctic, to Broughton Island, with the soundless film and a list of sounds and sound effects I needed. Six old women sat around a microphone and made the sounds and laughed a lot. I got what I wanted, but it was puzzling, uncomfortable work. For example, after I screened the film, which is nine minutes long and involves the eggs of the owl and the goose hatching, one old lady got up and walked out, saying that what the film showed was not true, eggs take two weeks to hatch. I was never sure that I wasn't using the Inuit people. I knew that their stories were truth and history for them, and they didn't tamper with the storytelling or make personal changes. That is why the stories were remarkably the same across thousands of miles of the arctic. And I had had to change the story, to personalize the animals, to make it mine in order to be able to tell it.
- Caroline Leaf -[/quote]
The Owl Who Married a Goose se puede ver en todo su esplendor Aquí, y de paso se puede comprobar la ínfima calidad del ripeo
que aquí posteo, con ese tinte anaranjado, aunque dada la imposibilidad de capturar el streaming del NBF es lo único que hay, que no
es poco, tratandose de un trabajo de la siempre magistral Leaf. Para más inri he necesitado cerca de dos meses para completarlo
(odio dar falsas alarmas) y el archivo en cuestión parece estar en WMV, aunque el GSpot no lo tenga muy claro,
no he intentado recomprimirlo a avi, pero no lo descarto, ya os iré informando.
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