TAIS invites all members and interested potential members to attend the 2015 Annual General Meeting, Friday, October 30th, 2015 @ 7pm, 1411 Dufferin Street, Unit B. REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED + immediately following the AGM…TAIS presents a SPOOKY HaLLOWeeN SCReeeeeNinG of animated horror shorts. Free of charge to all members and their guests. FEATURING a selection of suspenseful creepy marvels, including:
Alateadvuse maja (House of Unconsciousness) by Priit Tender (Estonia), 2015
The Shutterbug Man by Christopher Walsh (Toronto), 2014
Rabbitland by Ana Nedeljković and Nikola Majdak Jr. (Serbia), 2014
The Tide Keeper by Alyx Duncan (New Zealand), 2014
SIMULACRA by Ivana Bošnjak and Thomas Johnson (Croatia), 2014
AGENDA FOR THE AGM:
• Review minutes from past AGM (2014)
• President’s Report
• Treasurer’s Report
• Election of Officers for the TAIS Board of Directors
• New Business
At the TAIS AGM, all current members can vote. If you\’re not a TAIS Member but would like to become one, you can do so at the AGM or by filling out this form and sending your member fee via Paypal. If you\’re already a TAIS Member, but are unsure of whether or not you need to renew in order to vote, please contact Jenn Snider, Managing Director at info@tais.ca
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House of Unconsciousness is based on a long-term study of the dreams of chimney sweepers. The most frequently encountered images have been selected from the abundant material available and the script was created on the basis of those images. Statistics support the claim that this film presents one of the dreams that chimney sweepers encounter most often.
Priit Tender graduated from Tallinn Pedagogical University as an art teacher. His first job was as one of the artists for Pritt Päm and Janno PMldma\’s film \”1865\” (1995). His debut as a director came in 1996 with the film \”Gravitation\”. He is also a visual artist, and his work has been shown in exhibition.
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\”The Shutterbug Man\” tells the tale of a very twisted man, whose only passion in life is taking pictures. That passion takes him to terrible and wicked places.
Chris Walsh is a filmmaker who specializes in the strange art of stop motion animation. His numerous short films have been screened in festivals internationally. He is also a college professor, and instructs students in animation and film history, stop motion animation, and horror cinema.
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Brainless Rabbits live in Rabbitland, a perfect world ordered according to the most successful examples of war zones, ghettos and slums. They are intensively pink, have holes in their heads instead of brains, and they are happy regardless of what happens to them. They are the highest stage the evolution has ever reached. Their everyday life is completely fulfilled. The Rabbits spend days voting on free and democratic elections, which take place in Rabbitland once a day, because Rabbitland is an ordered democracy. Nevertheless, it gets disclosed that the elections are organized by the Evil Girls, just for their fun and laughter.
Ana Nedeljković graduated from painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Arts in Belgrade. She acquired a PhD in art practice from the same faculty in 2012. She is a visual artist working in the media of drawing, installation, animated film, and is active in the field of art education.
Nikola Majdak Jr. has MFA from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, camera department. For the last 20 years he has been a freelance cameraman, animator, director and lecturer.
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“Who knows how to stem the tide except through dreams?” One night an old seaman dreams the ocean into his bed. His sea green sheets become the polluted waters of his worst nightmare. His own mortality is at risk as his household objects begin to suffocate him. The Tide Keeper is inspired and performed by the filmmaker’s father.
Alyx Duncan is a filmmaker and choreographer in genres spanning live performance, installation, video-dance, music video, documentary, television commercials, and experimental filmmaking. Her research investigates human perception in relation to place, culture and political context. Alyx is currently producing Lani Feltham’s short film MOUSE, and co-writing two new feature films, and working on a series of one-shot shorts in collaboration with Touch Compass Dance Trust.
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Which image is real – the one staring at us from the mirror or the one standing in front of it? In hallways filled with illusions, a simulacrum behind the looking glass, he is trying to find out if he is looking at a stranger or a hidden part of himself. SIMULACRA is an allegory set in the mirror maze where it questions the way we are seeing and being seen.
Ivana Bošnjak graduated from the Graphics Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and Animation at the University in Volda, Norway. Her graduation film Crossed Sild, made in collaboration with Lea Vidaković, has been screened and awarded at many international festivals. She works as a model maker and animator.
Thomas Johnson graduated Time Based Media from the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff and currently studies at the New Media Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. His puppet performances were shown at several festivals. He works as a model maker and animator.