Zagreb '98

Painting the movement and soul

13 International Festival of Film Animation, Zagreb’98

With its excellent organisation and the excellent selection (about sixty films in competition out of eight hundred applications), the Zagreb ’98 resurrected the success of its golden years, the time when it was one of the few top festivals of animation films in the world. The jury (Roul Servais, Belgia; Sayoko Kinoshita, Japan; Natalia Chernyshova, Ukraina; Peter Dougherty, USA; Milan Blažeković, Croatia) had an extremely difficult job because there were more outstanding films worth of award then there were awards. The life achievement award went to the Italian animator Bruno Bozzetto.

A number of special programs accompanied the competition (retrospectives of Zlatko Grgić, Renzo Kinoshite, Vadim V. Kručevski; national retrospectives of Austrian and Italian animation, student films from Germany, Russia and Croatia, and Animania program of the last two year animation output). The specific achievements of individual films (with the prominent participation of Russian authors) are reviewed: Rusalka by the Russian Aleksandar Petrov; The Albatross by the British Paul Bush; Major’s Nose by the Russian Mihail Lisovoj; Rose Doll by the Russian Valentin Olsvang; Sientje by the Dutch Christe Moesker; Flatworld by the Brittish Daniel Greaves; student film The Cake by the Croat Daniel Šuljić and awarded British film One Eye by Liana Dognini; The Long Journey by the Russian Andrej Khrjanoviski; I move, so I am by Gerrit van Dijk; the US film Gery’s Game by Jan Pinkava.

Rada Šešić