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21-27 MARCH: 'MONSTRA' ANIMATED FILM FESTIVAL, LISBOA
A MONSTRA is Lisbon’s longest running film festival and for 2011, in its 10th Edition, the event takes place between March 21st and 27th. in various locations throughout the city centre. As with previous editions, the festival is dedicated to one invited country which this year is Holland; there will be a complete section of the festival specifically for this nation.
This year the festival includes a Japanese animation section, masterclasses and workshops, and competitions for long films, students’ short films and a new ‘Curtíssimas’ competition – for short animations up to 2 minutes long. There is also a ‘Mostrinha’ section dedicated to animated cinema for children, and a ‘Transversalidades’ programme dedicated to the mixture of animation with other art forms, for example the collaborations between Jazz and animation which will be showcased at free concerts each evening from 22nd-25th March in Cinema São Jorge from 12pm.
Exhibitions will be held in Museu de Marioneta until the 30th April, including puppets and scenery from French film Toile de Fond (Fire Waltz) by Marc Ménager and Mino Milan, which is based on a group of 1st World War soldiers on a special mission, and there will be behind the scenes work from the children’s animation series Dodu by José Miguel Ribeiro about a young boy living in a world made entirely of recycled cardboard…
Exhibitions also run in Cinema Sao Jorge between 21st and 27th March showcasing 20 Years of ‘ANIMANOSTRA’- an installation with designs, storyboards and other materials from ‘Animanostra’ one of Portugal’s main production companies of films and animation series’; Mickey Mouse Ears by Gerrit Van Dijk – an ironic exhibition about the popularisation of art; MONSTRAS do Mundo – Interpretations of A Monstra (“Monsters”) as seen by a selection of artists and illustrators from all over the world; and an installation entitled ‘Fight, Love and Work’ by Piotr Dumala, inspired by composer Alexander Balanescu and his musical ‘Lullaby Dream’.
By Lucy Mclean
