Directed by Gail Noonan, Rose Bond, Marilyn Zornado, Ruth Hayes, Joan Gratz, Joanna Priestley
As a preview of the Film Center’s post-festival Northwest Tracking series showcasing six independent animation innovators, we are pleased to offer this program sampler of their outstanding work to be featured. After the screening head on over to the Northwest Filmmakers’ Summit for a panel and conversation with the animators about their craft working in the Northwest.
Northwest Tracking is supported in part by an Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Films in this Program

Missed Aches
Directed by Joanna Priestley
A witty commentary on ignorance, idiocy and over- reliance on spell check.

Primal Flux
Directed by Joan Gratz
Colors and shapes shift and change as images emerge and disperse in a play on the nature of conscious and …

Cooper Perforation Loop Triptych
Directed by Ruth Hayes
Direct animation created by scraping emulsion against a circular disc of perforated cooper.

Spring Lines
Directed by Marilyn Zornado
The beauty of Spring comes to life through animated calligraphy.

More Sensitive
Directed by Gail Noonan
A topsy-turvy trip into a hotel room where a performer valiantly strikes the evening’s first piano chords.

Turangalila
Directed by Rose Bond
An excerpt from the expanded animation piece set to the avant-garde orchestral music by Olivier Messiaen.
Appears in: 44th Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival