Platform International Animation Festival October 26, 2012

Held for the first time in Los Angeles, this edition of the acclaimed festival launched in Portland, Oregon in 2007, is also the first ever in which festival director Irene Kotlarz collaborates with a new generation of curators-drawn from CalArts' animation programs-to reflect the interests and tastes of young artists today. Over the course on one weekend, the festival offers highlights from the Annecy International Animation Festival, including Michaela Pavlátová's Grand Pix winner Tram (2012), experimental artist Stephen Irwin's Ottawa Grand Prix-winning Moxie (2011), and a host of films from the world's top animation schools. Other screenings celebrate 40 years of CalArts animation; the formative influence of MTV on the internet generation; rarely screened surrealist films by stop-motion pioneer Ladislaw Starewicz; and, finally, a program by internet sensation PES that includes his own The Deep (2011) and Michael Patterson's Commuter (1981).
WHERE:
REDCAT
631 West Second Street
Downtown Los Angeles 90012
In the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex

Tickets:
Purchase tickets at the box office: (213) 237-2800
Or online at www.redcat.org