Huesca Film Festival
Catalogue
37th Edition
2009
ANIMATION
AND NATURE WORKSHOP
SPONSORED BY:
IN COLLABORATION WITH:
One of the most incredible virtues of cinema is the ability to manipulate time at will, and show, for example, the entire life of a character from birth to death in a few seconds.
Nature has a different tempo, a different pace in which human beings are only microscopic parts of that rhythm as we are not able to observe the changes in a mountain or the slight movement of the continents in the course of thousands of years.
With this workshop we will try to search and imitate the natural movements which take place in Huesca and its surroundings.
With stop-motion animation techniques and with the aid of special timing capture devices, we will manipulate day and night, the everyday routine of a city, the constant development of nature, to interweave at will a visual universe of synchrony between urban and natural life.
JORGE RIOBÓO CORTES
Jorge Riobóo Cortés won the Goya Award 2007 to the best animation short film for El Viaje de Said. A script writer, director and animation artist, he dictates animation workshops for different institutions such as the Community of Madrid School of Cinema, various film festivals, secondary schools, libraries, etc. He has also composed soundtracks for many short films, he has taught music and has worked as a stage manager apart from many other activities. He’s going to be the director of the stop-motion animation workshop for the Centro de Arte y Naturaleza (CDAN) and Huesca Film Festival, in collaboration with Instituto de Estudios Altoaragoneses (IEA) and Huesca School of Arts.