Caroline Leaf

Caroline Leaf (born August 12, 1946 in Seattle ) is an American - Canadian animator and painter who lives and works in London .

Life

Leaf studied painting at Radcliffe College from 1964 to 1968 and was recommended in 1969 by a teacher to Derek Lamb , who taught at nearby Harvard University . In his course she made her debut film, the sand animation Sand or Peter and the Wolf, until 1969 . In her next animated film, Orfeo , Leaf experimented for the first time with paint directly on glass.

She got a position on the National Film Board of Canada (English-speaking section) in 1972 and moved to Montreal. Her first film at the NFB was The Owl Who Married a Goose in 1974 , which is based on an Inuit legend and appeared as part of the An Eskimo Legend series. The film has won several awards and received, among other things, a BAFTA nomination. Her second film, The Street (1976), was an oil-on-glass animation . The on a short story by Mordecai Richler based film about the death of a grandmother from the perspective of her grandson in 1977 for an Oscar as best animated short film nominated. Leaf's works were realized using a wide variety of animation techniques, such as her short film Two Sisters (1990), by etching the drawings directly onto the film strip, while Kafka's interpretation The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa was animated again in sand. In addition to her work as an animation filmmaker, Leaf also made a few commercials for Pascal Blais Productions.

Leaf left the NFB in 1991 and then turned to painting, among other things. Leaf taught animation at Harvard from 1996 to 1998. In 2001 she moved to London and taught animation at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield near London from 2005 to 2009 .

Filmography

• 1969: Sand or Peter and the Wolf
• 1970: Orfeo
• 1971: How Beaver Stole Fire
• 1974: The Owl Who Married a Goose
• 1976: The Street
• 1977: The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa
• 1979: interview
• 1981: Kate and Anna McGarrigle (documentary)
• 1981: The Right to Refuse
• 1982: An Equal Opportunity (documentary)
• 1983: Pies
• 1985: The Owl and the Pussycat
• 1986: The Fox and the Tiger
• 1986: A Dog's Tale
• 1990: Two Sisters
• 1991: I Met a Man
• 1994: Fleay's Fauna Center
• 1996: Drapeau Canada
• 1998: Absolut Leaf
• 2001: Odysseus & The Olive Tree
• 2004: Slavery

Awards

• 1976: BAFTA nomination, best animated film, for The Owl Who Married a Goose: An Eskimo Legend
• 1976: Ottawa International Animation Festival Grand Prix for The Street
• 1977: Oscar nomination , Best Animated Short , for The Street
• 1977: Silver Dragon from Krakowski Festiwal Filmowy for The Street
• 1978: Golden Dragon of the Krakowski Festiwal Filmowy for The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa
• 1979: Jury Prize of the Montréal World Film Festival for Interview
• 1980: Melbourne International Film Festival Grand Prize for Interview
• 1991: Grand Prize of the World Animation Celebration for Two Sisters
• 1992: Grand Prix of the Ottawa International Animation Festival for Two Sisters
• 1994: Norman McLaren Heritage Award from the Ottawa International Animation Festival
• 1996: Lifetime Achievement Award from Animafest Zagreb

literature

• Caroline Leaf . In: Anima Mundi (Ed.), Julius Wiedemann (Ed.): Animation Now! Taschen, Cologne u. a. 2004, pp. 86-93.

Web links

• Caroline Leaf in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Caroline Leaf website
• Caroline Leaf on The Canadian Encyclopedia
• Information on Caroline Leaf at the NFB

Individual evidence

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