CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

THURSDAY, 10/09/2015
8:00 - 9:30 p.m., Animated Warm-Up:
Gallery Bielska BWA
„Visegrad Animation Forum DVD Rallye Special Screening"
A Blue Room (Tomasz Siwiński, PL); Endemit's Greed (Natalia Dziedzic, PL); In Line (Kamila Kuciková, SK); Fongopolis (Joanna Kożuch, SK); The Adventures of Candide (Bera Nándor, HUN); Limbo-Limbo Travel (Zsuzsanna Kreif, Borbala Zetenyi, HUN); The Potato Eaters (Martin Kukal, CZE); Entangled (Stanislav Sekela, CZE)

FRIDAY, 11/ 09/2015
1:30 - 2:00 p.m., Conference Opening
Gallery Bielska BWA

2:30 - 4:30 p.m., 1st Panel: Imagining Politics
Gallery Bielska BWA
moderator: Michał Bobrowski, Ph.D.
Prof. Marcin Giżycki (Rhode Island School of Design; Katowice School of Technology), Where is Polish Political Animation?, lecture in English
Brigitta Iványi-Bitter, Ph.D. (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest), Storyline structures in auteur animation films in the v4 countries in the Cold War era, video lecture in English
Anna Ida Orosz, Ph.D. Candidate (ELTE's Institute of Art Theory and Media Studies, Budapest), Satire and Sociography: the Depiction of History in Hungarian Animated Short Films before 1989
Wiola Sowa, MA (Pedagogical University Art Department Krakow), Female Approach to the World, lecture in English

5:00 - 6:30 p.m., 2nd Panel: Authorial Obsessions
Gallery Bielska BWA
moderator: Olga Bobrowska, MA
Michał Bobrowski, Ph.D. (Jagiellonian University in Krakow), From Eternity to Here. Journey of No Return in Films of Zdzisław Kudła, lecture in English
Denis Viren, Ph.D. (State Institute for Art Studies, Moscow, Russia), Various Obsessions of Alexander Sroczyński, lecture in Polish
Maciej Stasiowski, Ph.D. Candidate (Jagiellonian University in Krakow), Pathological Outgrowth: Animated Film as a Virtual Medium For Zdzisław Beksiński's Artistic Investigations, lecture in English

8:00 - 9:30 p.m., Animation Screening
Gallery Bielska BWA
„Twisted Dreams of Primanima", presentation of Primanima World Festival of First Animations from Budaörs (Hungary), films with Polish subtitles
Baths (Tomek Ducki, PL); Rascal Redemption (Gábor Mariai, HUN); Mimma (Calvin Antoine Blandin, FRA); 00:08 (Yutaro Kubo, JPN); Roadtrip (Xavier Xylophon, GER); Lesley the Pony Has an A+ Day! (Christian Larrave, USA); With Joy and Merriness (Jeanne Boukraa, BEL); Tupilaq (Jakob Maqe, DEN); Small People with Hats (Sarina Nihei, UK/JAP); Gashapon Kou-lou-kou-lou (Wei-Yuan Chen, TAI); Man on the Chair (Dahee Jeong, FRA/KOR Płd.); Symphony no. 42 (Réka Bucsi, HUN)

10:30 - 11:30 p.m., Animation Music Night
Aquarium Cafe (Bielska Gallery BWA), Bielska-Biała
Animated Music Videos from Supertoon International Animated Film Fetival, Šibenik (Croatia)

SATURDAY, 12/09/2015
1:00 - 2:00 p.m., 3rd Panel: Double Perspective on Jan Švankmajer
Gallery Bielska BWA
moderator: Olga Bobrowska, MA
Bogusław Zmudziński, Ph.D. (AGH University of Science and Technology), Animation as Detonation. Counter-culture and Anti-civilizational aspects of Cinema of Jan Švankmajer, video lecture in Polish
Jiří Neděla, MA (Pedagogical Faculty of Palacký University, Olomouc), Dream As Second Life, lecture in English

2:30 - 4:00 p.m., 4th Panel: Intermedia and Intertextual Contexts of Animation
moderator: Michał Bobrowski, Ph.D.
Gallery Bielska BWA
Robert Sowa, Ph.D. Adjunct (Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow), Immersive Genres, lecture in English
Olga Bobrowska, Ph.D. Candidate (Jagiellonian University in Krakow), No Gods Land. Leszek Kołakowski's Thought in Polish Animated Film, lecture in English
Guo Chunning, Ph.D. Candidate (Renmin University, Beijing), The Archaeology of Memory: The Explorations of Animated Documentary, lecture in English

4:30 - 6:30 p.m., 5th Panel: Italian Connection
Gallery Bielska BWA
moderator: Michał Bobrowski, Ph.D.
dr hab. Stefan Bielański, prof. UP (Pedagogical University of Krakow), Traditions of Central Europe and Its Relations with Italy, lecture in Polish
Prof. Paola Bristot (Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna), Vox Lunae. Inner Dynamics in the Female Italian Animation, lecture in English
Andrea Martignoni, MA (IULM University in Milano), "Animator of Subconscious". Between Obsessions and Anarchy in Igor Imhoff, Blu, Donato Sansone's Movies, lecture in English
Giuseppe Sedia, MA (FIPRESCI), Twisting Genres - Two Examples of Western Animation Film from Italy and Poland, lecture in English

8:00 - 9:30 p.m., Animation Screening
Gallery Bielska BWA
„Best of StopTrik IFF", the best films from five editions of competition programmes of StopTrik, Slovenian/Polish festival of stop motion animation, films with Polish subtitles

The Triagle Affair (Andrees Tenusaar, EST); Mouth Wide Open, Ears Shut Tight (Tom Madar, Emlly Noy, ISR); The Last Bus (Ivana Laucikova, Martin Snopek, SVK); Boles (Špela Čadež, SLO); The Back Room (Mike Kren, Mirjam Baker, AUS); Simulacra (Ivana Bošnjak, Thomas Johnson, CRO)

10:30 - 11:30 p.m., Animation Music Night
Cafe & Bar Celna 10, Bielska-Biała
Animated Music Videos from StopTrik IFF (Maribor/Bielsko-Biała)

SUNDAY, 13/09/2015

11:00 - 12:00 a.m.,
Gallery Bielska BWA
moderators: Michał Bobrowski, Ph.D., Olga Bobrowska, MA
Conference Closing: Summative Round Table, discussion in English

12:30 - 2:00 p.m., Animation Screening
Gallery Bielska BWA
„Artistic Animation from Bielsko-Biała", selection of artistic cut-out films from Animated Film Studio (Studio Filmów Rysunkowych) in Bielsko-Biała
Smile (Mirosław Kijowicz, 1965); Flag (Mirosław Kijowicz, 1965); Don Juan (Jerzy Zitzman, 1963); Exile from Paradise (Jerzy Zitzman, 1966); Trurl's Machine (Jerzy Zitzman, 1973); Sisyphus (Zdzisław Kudła, 1970), The Rustle of the Forest (Zdzisław Kudła, 1972); Kwiat (Zdzisław Kudła, 1973); Mr. Z's Point of No Return (Zdzisław Kudła, 1992)

3:00 - 4:00 p.m., Mural Way Urban Walking