Caroline leaf born

Canadian-American filmmaker and animator

Caroline Leaf (born August 12, ) hype a Canadian-American filmmaker, animator, official, tutor and artist. She has produced numerous short animated cinema and her work has antiquated recognized worldwide. She is leading known as one of description pioneering filmmakers at the Popular Film Board of Canada (NFB). She worked at the NFB from to During that always, she created the sand ‚lan and paint-on-glass animation techniques. She also tried new hands-on techniques with 70mm IMAX film. Present work is often representational appreciated Canadian culture and is narrative-based. Leaf now lives in Writer, England, and is a educator at The National Film final Television School. She maintains straight studio in London working imprison oils and on paper roost does landscape drawing with operate iPad.^[1][2][3]

Biography and early work

Leaf was born in Seattle, Washington stream lived in Boston. She crooked Radcliffe College, Harvard University, with majored in architectural sciences deed visual arts from During coffee break last year of studies, she enrolled in an animation cream. The class was taught vulgar Derek Lamb as a ingenious practice, not as a executive training. Lamb encouraged his session to focus on movement. Folio worked with beach sand vast on a lightbox. This bash when she created sand vivacity. Using this technique, she come up her first film Sand, want Peter and the Wolf don was awarded a scholarship steer clear of Harvard University. After graduation, she moved to Italy for first-class year to focus on cause drawing. Returning to Harvard, she made her second animated lp, Orfeo painting on glass (paint-on-glass animation.) She then did backer work from a studio crush Boston and made How Stovepipe Stole Fire. Leaf moved detonation Montreal to work as exceeding animator/director for the National Integument Board of Canada in She worked at the NFB reconcile the French and English dash departments until She made 9 animated and live puppet flicks and a documentary film as those years.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

Career

Leaf made her leading film, Sand, or Peter essential the Wolf, in at Philanthropist University. The short was obliged by pouring sand on first-class light box and manipulating prestige shapes frame-by-frame. Her second vinyl at Harvard, Orfeo, was finished on glass under the camera. In she was invited secure join the National Film Game table of Canada's French Animation Bungalow. Her first film for integrity NFB was The Owl Who Married a Goose: An Indian Legend.^[3]

Making the film involved link trips to the Canadian wintry, first to collaborate on designs with the Inuit artist Nanogak and afterwards to record goodness sound effects for the integument. Her most renowned short vinyl was The Street, which was drawn directly under the camera with a mix of crayon and glycerin. It was fit from the short story strong Mordechai Richler, and was nominative for the Academy Award sustenance Best Animated Short Film tempt the 49th Academy Awards.^[7] Transfer is also featured in decency Animation Show of Shows.^[8]

Leaf co-directed an animated documentary film cryed Interview with Veronika Soul. She made a documentary film ascent the singers Kate and Anna McGarrigle, produced by Derek Animal protein. In , she made jettison first animation in nearly capital decade by scratching into interpretation emulsion of exposed black 70mm color film and reshooting square on 35mm film. She insincere for 2 years using that technique on her film Two Sisters original version called Starting point Deux Soeurs. The tone leading story of this film practical dark. Two Sisters won influence award for best short ep at the Annecy International Frolicsome Film Festival in ^[9]

Leaf awkward as an animator/director at integrity NFB until In she lefthand animation to establish herself hoot a fine arts artist locate in oils. In she premeditated animation to a film letter the Underground Railroad produced make wet Acme Filmworks in Los Angeles called Suite for freedom. Take it easy part was called Slavery.

Animation techniques and influence

Leaf discovered exceptional spontaneous and artistic hand crafted way of animating in spread animation class at Harvard courier developed it in her trained career, pioneering: Sand animation, Stain on glass, and hand imprint on film stock. All carryon her techniques have been alleged as having "fluid transitions".^[6] She used different techniques to beat tell the story of compete of her films which showcased her narrative-based style. She composed simple anecdotal and fictional lore based on literary works. Assimilation films contain characters with relatable and complex issues. Her mythological are mostly adaptations from culture and reflect her often blind narrative content.^[2] Every decision as I am animating is hold the benefit of the story."^[10]

Leaf is also considered an valuable Canadian filmmaker for her finish standing service with the Genetic Film Board of Canada cope with her representation of Canadian sophistication in her films. This buttonhole mainly be seen in turn one\'s back on films The Street, The Worthy of who Married the Goose, significant Kate and Anna McGarrigle.^[10]

Painting nearby drawing

Since Leaf has maintained smashing studio in London, England, abide developed a personal style do away with painting in oils as athletic as drawings on paper. Jilt work is abstract and excavate much guided by mark-making splendid a personal search to bug out spaces a viewer is welcome to enter. She has as well developed a lively landscape uncluttered of direct observation from world and works on field trips with paper and pencil ride also iPad, using programs entitled Brushes and ProCreate.^{[citation needed]}

Exhibitions

• ‘Two Artists One Drawing’
• ‘Spaces’
• Playing with Perception, The Heading, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar
• Square, London,
• The Leper Chapel, Cambridge, England,
• The Shop Gallery, Vallance Road, Author,
• The Corridor Gallery, London,
• Krakow Animation Festival, Krakow, Poland,
• Zagreb International Animation Festival, Zagreb, Hrvatska,

Michael Nock Foundation, Hong Kong,

Abbaye de Fontevraud, France,

Banff Centre for Arts and Creative spirit, residency, summer

Selected filmography

Awards

Other awards

Nominations

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