Carmen D'Avino

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Carmen D'Avino (born October 31, 1918 in Woodbury , † November 30, 2004 in Ogdensburg ) was an American filmmaker, animator and painter.

Life

D'Avino studied at the Art Students League of New York from 1938 to 1941 and specialized in film and painting. From 1941 he took part in the Second World War as war correspondent for the film and filmed the invasion of Normandy and the liberation of Paris , among other things . After the war he stayed in Paris and became a student at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris . In addition to oil painting, he began to experiment with the medium of film. D'Avino went to India with his future wife in 1948 . The stay influenced his painting style significantly, so since this time, which ended after 18 months, there have been increasingly strong color contrasts in D'Avino's works. Ornamental animations in later short films can also be traced back to the time in India.

After returning to Paris, he briefly studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière , but returned to New York City in 1951 . It was here in 1951 that he shot his first experimental animation short, Pattern for a Sunday Afternoon , which premiered in April 1956 at the Cinema 16 film club . For D'Avino, the film premiere was a great motivation to keep making films. Cinema 16 not only showed his films in the following years, but also sold them until it closed in 1963. D'Avino saw experimental animated films as an opportunity to show his skills as a painter at a given speed and in a tight time frame. The “free” 1960s in particular proved to be artistically stimulating for him. Numerous short films were made that were shown at festivals around the world and received numerous awards. The stop-motion animated short film Pianissimo was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Animated Short Film in 1964 . Ten years later, D'Avino received another Oscar nomination for Background , this time in the Best Documentary Short Film category . From 1971 D'Avino created numerous animated short films for the children's television series The Electric Company .

D'Avino moved from New York City to Hammond, New York in the 1980s. In later years he increasingly turned to sculpture, working in wood and marble, among other things. In 2000 the documentary The Quest of Carmen D'Avino by RD and Matthew White was released about D'Avino's life and work.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1950: Vernissage
  • 1951: Finland
  • 1956: Pattern for a Sunday Afternoon
  • 1956: Motif
  • 1956: Theme and Variation
  • 1959: The Big O
  • 1959: The Room
  • 1960: Stone Sonata
  • 1961: A Trip
  • 1962: Jet Cargo
  • 1963: a Finnish Fable
  • 1963: pianissimo
  • 1965: Tarantella
  • 1966: Like a Bird
  • 1967: Minestrone With Music
  • 1973: Background
  • 1976: No Noise

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Carmen D'Avino . In: Jeff Lenburg: Who's who in animated cartoons . Applause, New York 2006, pp. 59-60.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adrienne Mancia and Willard Van Dyke: Four Artists as Film-makers . In: Art in America , January / February 1967.
  2. ^ Scott Macdonald: Cinema 16: Documents Toward History Of Film Society . Temple University Press, Philadelphia 2002, p. 278.
  3. ↑ Carmen D'Avino's “Moving Painting”: The Big “O” (USA 1958) . In: Christine Stenzer: main actor writing: an overview of writing in film and video from 1895 to 2009 . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2009, p. 203.
  4. ↑ See annecy.org
personal data
SURNAME D'Avino, Carmen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American filmmaker, animator, and painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Woodbury
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 2004
Place of death Ogdensburg