Alys Hawkins
area: Film / Fine Arts
Key Facts
nationality
Great Britainarea
Film / Fine Artsresidence
Southhamptonrecommending institution
culture2culturetime period
March 2004 - April 2004Awards:
Synchro Film Award (€1500), Tricky Women, Vienna, 2003
Best Experimental Film, BAF! 2000,
Bradford Animation Festival, National Museum of Photography, Film & Television 2000
Special Commendation, Royal Television Society (NE) 1999
Screenings:
Bird’s Eye View, National Film Theatre, London (& touring U.K.) + Brief Encounters, Bristol, U.K. November 2003
MadCat Women’s Film Festival, San Francisco U.S. September 2003
Krok Animation Festival, Kiev-Sebastopol, Ukraine September 2003
Anima Mundi, Rio de Janeiro & Sao Paolo, Brazil July 2003
Circle Club Kino, Manchester, U.K. May 2003
Images Festival, Toronto, Canada April 2003
Tricky Women International Animation Festival, Vienna, Austria March 2003
Anima 2003, Brussels, Belgium March 2003
Shorts! Film Festival, Amsterdam, Holland November 2002
Stuttgart Animation Festival, Germany October 2002
BAF! 2000, Bradford Animation Festival, National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford U.K. June 2000
Flea Pit, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. October 1999
Kinofilm 99, International Short Film Festival, Manchester, U.K. July 1999
Out:Point, Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. June 1999
Qualifications:
MA Animation Royal College of Art, London 2002
BA(Hons) Media Production University of Northumbria, Newcastle, 1999
National Diploma Foundation Studies in Art & Design, Winchester School of Art, 1995
Experience:
Visiting Lecturer, Foundation Studies in Art & Design, Kent Institute of Art & Design 2001-current
Lecturer, BA Digital Arts/Digital Animation, London College of Music & Media 2002
CLTAD two-day workshop: Strategies for postgraduates who teach 2002
Graduate Fellow in Animation, University of Northumbria, Newcastle, 1999-2000
Speaker Liaison, Drawing on the Past conference, SIIARA Animation Archive, Southampton Institute 1998
Treasurer of the Association of Northern Animators 1997-2000
The project:
To make a short animated film about the subjective experience of the female body, produced in response to the collections of drawings on show in the MuseumsQuartier, and made by drawing directly into the computer. The film will be screened/exhibited in quartier 21.
The residency will involve developing the film work I make using drawn digital techniques: drawing directly into the computer using a Wacom tablet and pen, I use Photoshop software like a traditional animation light box. This is a technique I have developed in order to facilitate and exploit experimentation. This unique opportunity for intensive research, study and development of my drawing work, will permit me to push the boundaries of drawing in digital film-making.
In subject, the film will continue my focus on the subjective experience of the female body, and specifically the connections between physical and emotional experience. In addition, it is my aim that the film will further Culture2Culture’s project to explore the realms of female desire.
I plan an extensive programme of drawing and visual research, in response to the collections of drawings in the MuseumsQuartier, particularly those of Schiele and Klimt, which I was impressed and inspired by during my visit to the MuseumsQuartier for the Tricky Women festival.
These drawings will be developed into a animated film through a process of experimentation and development. The Synchro Film Prize (awarded at Tricky Women 2003), of €1500 worth of post-production facilities, will enable me to work closely with Synchro Film & Video to produce and complete the project, in terms of sound, editing and outputting. I would be particularly keen to work with Synchro in experimentation between digital media and film print.
The final film will be shown publicly in Quartier 21, either as a one-off screening event, or as an installation piece.
I will bring the equipment I need for my work, in the form of my laptop computer. With this I can draw, animate, paint, render and edit picture and sound.
open studio
thuesday april 27th, 2004, from 7:30 p.m. on
screening and concert 8:00 p.m.
location: MQ Wien, artist studios 501 + 513, entrance Hof 7 (above "forum experimentelle architektur")
Reka Nemere - paintings "views 1 - 5"
Alys Hawkins - "work in progress", short animation film
"Kommando Raumschiff Zitrone" - Kai Fagaschinski clarinet, Christof Kurzmann laptop
"... then Kai and Christof could play a 30 minute-set, Alys shows an animation film and drawings and Reka five of her paintings and afterwards music from a cd-player or so. That could be a nice evening, I guess."