Supernova Outdoor Digital Animation Festival Comes To Denver

DENVER, CO – Supernova, an outdoor festival of digital animation will be presented free on public LED displays this week at outdoor LEDs around Denver. The SUPERNOVA Digital Animation Festival runs from Friday through Sept. 23 in and around the Denver Theater District. The festival includes videos, abstract digital installations and family-friendly films. The festival also includes a juried competition, where film-makers and digital artists can win prizes up to $5,000.

“I liken it to a drive-in movie theater right in the heart of downtown,” Supernova director Ivar Zeile, and founder of Denver Digerati told Colorado Public Radio last year. “There’s so much traffic going through there, we really like the idea that the exposure comes to those that are not suspecting it to be there.”

Denver Film Society's Sie FilmCenter Short Works

As a preview, an indoor pre-screening will take place Sept. 20 at Denver Film Society's Sie FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax Ave on Sept. 20 from 7-9 p.m.

The screening will feature eight short films curated by festival guest juror Robert Seidel, and a selection of animations by visiting artist Jonathan Monaghan, with both in attendance.

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Eight experimental Short Films
Curated by Robert Seidel

The films will be

• Ana Vaz – Occidente – Brazil 2014 – 15:15min
• Johann Lurf – Embargo – Austria 2014 – 10:00min
• Volker Schlecht & Alexander Lahl – Broken – Germany 2016 – 7:02min
• Patricia Detmering – Homeland Part I (Cat-State) – Germany 2017 – 5:04min
• Bridget Baker – Steglitz House – South Africa/Germany 2009-2010 – 9:00min
• Tanja Vujinovic – Universal Objects: BFFs1&2 – Slovenia 2017 – 2:50min
• Dagmar Schuerrer – I Want To Be Like You – Germany/Austria 2016 – 05:45min
• Saskia Olde Wolbers – Pareidolia – UK 2011 – 12:25min

Washington DC-based animator Jonathan Monaghan is presenting a solo exhibition “Synthetic Mythologies,” staged by Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design at their Philip J. Steele Gallery. Monaghan will share four of his highly detailed, imaginative works in a special appearance at the Sie Film Center.

Image via YouTube.

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