Canadian animation : looking for a place to happen

Robinson, Chris 1967- (Author).

Summary: "In 2007, writer Chris Robinson traveled across Canada to meet with some of the country's leading independent animation filmmakers. Along the way, Robinson muses about the animation art form in Canada and his own relationship to the scene and personalities, many of whom are friends and colleagues. As he travels from place to place he carries along his own private (and sometimes not-so-private) struggles with insomnia, depression, identity, cab drivers, hobos, and nobos and the shocking murder of animator Helen Hill, who's life and work embody many of the themes that colour these conversations." "With the intimate detail of a diary, Canadian Animation: Looking for a Place to Happen weaves together history, memoir and dream into a candid portrait of Canadian animation, art, doing, drifting and dying."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 9780861966882 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0861966880 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
vi, 258 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm.
Publisher: New Barnet, U.K. : John Libbey ; Bloomington, IN : Distributed in North America by Indiana University Press, c2008.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Foreword / Paul Gailiunas -- 1. Introduction -- 2. In the Beginning was the end and in the end was the Beginning -- 3. Detour -- Profound Moments with Rick Raxlen -- 4. Vancouver -- Bruce Alcock -- Marilyn Cherenko -- Gail Noonan -- David Fine -- Anne-Marie Fleming -- Marv Newland -- 5. Calgary -- Carol Beecher and Kevin Kurytnik -- Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis -- Richard Reeves -- 6. Halifax -- Ed Beals -- Halifax Animators -- James McSwain -- 7. Toronto -- Patrick Jenkins -- Jonathan Amitay -- Eugene Federenko -- John Straiten -- 8. Montreal -- Claude Cloutier -- Janet Perlman -- Theodore Ushev -- Chris Hinton -- Craig Welch -- Chris Landreth -- 9. Home -- Nick Cross -- 10. To Sleep.