theodore ushev

Yannick – No intermission

theo — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:09:56 +0000

Is now online. It was my first experiment with the computer programming language Processing. Basicaly all of the animation was done using it – crossing the data, and randomizing the data from the sound information and the movements of the hands of Yannick Nezet Seguin.

LIpsett awards and new screenings added

theo — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:10:59 +0000

SCREENINGS:

November 3 to 14, International Film Festival, Denver, USA, competition

L’Alternativa / International Festival of Independent Films, November 13 to 21 2010, Barcelona, Spain

International Animated Film Festival / CINANIMA, November 8 to 14 2010, Espinho, Portugal

Golden Horse International Film Festival, November 3 to 20 2010, Taipei, Taiwan

International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, October 18 to 24 2010, Leipzig, Germany

October 13 to 28 2010, London Film Festival, London, England, competition

Festival international du film francophone, October 1 to 8 2010, Namur, Belgium

International Francophone Film Festival in Acadie, September 23 to October 2 2010, Moncton, Canada

September 9 to 19 2010, International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, competition

September 7 to 12 , FANTOCHE International Animation Film Festival , Baden, Switzerland, competition

AWARDS:

Special International Jury Prize
International Animation Festival
August 7 to 11 2010, Hiroshima – Japan

Special Mention
International Animated Film Festival
June 9 to 11 2010, Annecy – France

Special Mention
Worldwide Short Film Festival
June 1 to 6 2010, Toronto – Canada

The hot summer of 2010

theo — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 03:04:24 +0000

Yes, it was. Zagreb, Annecy, than vacation. Just back from Japan. But the autumn won’t be better. Toronto film festival, more VJing, workshops, then jurying at Moscow. Then more work, exhibitions, several workshops, then more festivals, jurying at other festivals. No, I won’t do another film this Year, but won’t sleep too much. After the hard work of doing a film, there is always a need to do more work connected with direct public contact. The Animation film making is a lonely job, and I always need to push the limits after, so I meet more people, and be in the boiling water.

Lipsett wins at Annecy

theo — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:08:17 +0000

More later… Now I have to sleep.

Tzaritza at the Louvre

theo — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:49:09 +0000

There were some screenings of “Tzaritza” at the Louvre:

Making of

theo — Mon, 31 May 2010 16:05:19 +0000

Lipsett diaries official web site

theo — Mon, 31 May 2010 16:02:41 +0000

http://films.nfb.ca/lipsett-diaries/

The Prémiere week

theo — Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:39 +0000

The week of Lipsett diaries prémiere:
Zagreb – 1 of June 22h. 5th of June – 20h, Europe cinema.
Toronto – 2nd of June, 20.30, Cumberland cinema 4, Saturday 5th – 14.30
Los Angeles, Laemmle theater, 4-6 June 12.30 PM

Lipsett mistery continues

theo — Wed, 19 May 2010 19:45:58 +0000

Today, just 2 weeks before the film sorts out (another coincidence?) , someone put never seen before archives regarding Arthur Lipsett, on e-bay. Those are treasures. It looks like this guy/woman was a really good friend of him. He (or she) got the final letter from his aunt, about his death, and his gravestone. Arthur Lipsett ghost doesn’t find his peace, evidently. It comes, and comes again into my life, strangely elated (Strangely elated was the first and original title of the film Very nice, very nice .

Lipsett. 2 weeks before the prémiere.

theo — Tue, 18 May 2010 15:15:31 +0000

Processing drawings

theo — Wed, 12 May 2010 01:49:37 +0000

A few of the “drawings” that I created for my new film “Yannick: No Intermission”. Actually, those are computer created images, using the open source programing language “processing”, generated from the combination from the hands movements of Yannick Nézet Seguin, and the music of Bruckner’s the 8th Symphony.

Scenes from the cemetery CDN

theo — Fri, 07 May 2010 19:09:19 +0000

Walking man at the cemetery

Mourning woman in the cemetery

Funeral procession at Cote Des Neiges

Woman turns her head

A Place for a Film, a Place for…

theo — Wed, 05 May 2010 03:24:32 +0000

Sometimes I think – OK, now, it is relatively easy to show Your works, and to achieve fast recognition, success, interest, or simply – traffic. So, I make a film, post it on Internet, and that’s it. Like I was doing it 10 Years ago. I had my pleasure, the traffic of my site is huge, daily is much bigger, than a screening in a big (for today standards) cinema, it will be seen.

So, why do I need festivals? Why do I need to send my films, to bother about selections, deadline, shipping costs, etc. Pay expensive plane tickets t o get there, and have a screening for half of the people that I can achieve in one day on my site?

Because, the reason why a director makes films is the same as the artists.An artist (after having his pleasure of creating a work at his studio) needs a vernissage. An Opening. He needs to see his works out of his studio. To share the excitement of showing his works for first time! A musician cannot live without his live shows, without the feeling of the public. A symphony orchestra cannot exist without making concerts. A writer cannot survive without going to the bookstore, and have his book in his hands, meet his readers, see it together with the other books, even if it’s hidden on the Nth shelf, and no one buys it.

Showing my film online is one thing. But being on a screening of my films, is another. Especially on a big festival. Every time when I attend a festival, and go the screening of my film, I don’t go, so I see it again, and egocentrically to flatter myself, and fall into self masturbation. I go to feel the breath of the people in the hall. I can say exactly, at what row, and seat, what kind of feeling is projected. I like the sense of hearing the pulse, the hate even, the discomfort of this man, 3 rows from mine, in left. The excitement of the woman 5 rows from here, 12 seat. The snoring of the ado 2 rows behind. I think, I can feel everybody in the hall. And this is why, without showing my films on festivals, and being there, I wouldn’t make films.

I prefer to be in a screening room with 20 people, than 200 000 viewers to see my film online.Yes, both, together, they provide a fuel for my next film. Doesn’t matter if they like it or not.

It is like having sex without a partner. It is just a masturbation. You have the pleasure for Yourself. But You don’t share it. This is why the filmmakers need the live screenings, and the festivals. It is the only way to keep the films alive. Without this – we die.

“Yannick – No Intermission” online prémiere

theo — Sat, 01 May 2010 02:44:15 +0000

The Online premiere of my new short film “Yannick – No Intermission” was postponed… Stay tuned for a new date… Here is the poster. (The most important part of a film is his poster, don’t forget!)

An interesting critic for “Drux Flux”

theo — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:45:46 +0000

I’ve found very interesting review on the web today, it is about my film “Drux Flux”. I love the point of view of this critic, it is from the web blogue Vagabonguru.:

Anti-Industrial Revolution Digital Artist?

Read the full article here.

Recapitulation

theo — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:23:15 +0000

A Break from the animation. May be forever. New challenges.

Lipsett diaries Montreal pre-premiere

theo — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:32:19 +0000

Pre-Premiere day. “Lipsett diaries” Montreal closed invitation screening. A little bit scary, I haven’t seen the film since January… But it will be mostly friends projection…
The program will open with my recent film “Yannick Nézet Séguin – No Intermission”.

New paintings

theo — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:12:46 +0000

Sky through the window 1

Yannick

theo — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:01:50 +0000

Just finished a film-portrait of the famous Young conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin(Rotterdam Symphonic Orchestra, MET, London Symphonic Orchestra, etc…). And he said in the film, something, that I’ve never realized. I share those words:
The way I understand it, like everything else, humans are created in balance.
There’s always a yin and a yang. There’s always black and white, always a positive and a negative.
There’s hope and there’s doubt. And since I’m someone who’s been greatly blessed in life, extremely happy and fundamentally optimistic,
I often wonder why I’m so attracted to works that deal with the end of life, with death, suffering and sadness?

Allmost done.

theo — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 02:45:17 +0000

The new film is almost done. I feel ok. I can have some sleep now, and watch some films. For the start – Eric Rohmer. I love his films, I think he is the best director from the “nouvelle vague”. Though, it is stupid to be classified like this. OK, he is not the best. It is just like this – i like it at the moment. I wished there were more new films like this now, at the moment. It seems that the current model in the cinema doesn’t really work… Which means, that it won’t be long and we will have a new “nouvelle vague”, if we don’t have it already, hidden. What about the Latin America cinema…