Sunday morning I been at The Old Book and Paper Show bought really beautiful and rare book Shadow Puppets, Shadow Theatres and Shadow Films by incomparable Lottie Reiniger! I will say more over, this book is signed by  the author. Yes, Frau Lotte herself autograph on a frontispice of this book.

I'm such a old fan of hers Adventures of Prince Achmed legendary movie of 1926. If you have not seen this film, just go and watch it.

My new one minute animation "Interconnection of Our Dreams"

Couple days ago passed a dead line for submitting an animation to Toronto Urban Film Festival. 

As always, I submitted my film almost among the last. But this time submitting become some kind of delaying record for me. To be completely accurate, I brought my film on the day later the official deadline! Belive me, I had my perfectly legal reasons to do so because festival didn't have working submission mechanism for the last day which was Sunday. Office was close and even didn't have a drop box by the doors. I couldn't upload a 980 Mb file either... But, thanks to the reasonable and receptive staff of the TUFF, who respond to my urgent e-mail promptly with vital information about possibility to bring my film in by Monday morning. End of story. At the end of July TUFF will decide which films is selected for showing. As I just find it out, this year was submitted more then 400 films! People sent films from all around the word. Incredible!

TUFF web site.

Last Monday "Pneumo Hoof " get scanned.

After long period of hesitation and empty expectations I finally did very important task - professional scanned one of my best, steam-punk picture Pneumo-Hoof created in a year 1996.

I have a plans to print it out as limited edition Giclée. Original size of this image is 29x21 inches.
I expecting to put my hans on first five copies by the end of June. So, if you want to buy it, drop me a line and I'll make a RSV for you.

My entry to the first Russian Animabook festival in Suzdal.

Thanks to my friend Igor Golev for sharing with me information about this new flip book festival. Deadline was very close and I decide to enter with my award winning Born to be.... More over, the required timing perfectly coincided with the timing of my old film. I just cut down out titles, ending, transition screens music e.t.c., and got at the end required 75 frames of my new flip book version of Born to be.... You can see page of the festival, but only in a Russian language. For some, hidden from me, reason they didn't translated it to English. Or, maybe I'm kind of blind at the end of the day and just couldn't see it? Any way, here it is: Flipbook.


Born to be... [Animabook festival] from ANIMABOOK on Vimeo.