Frank Mouris

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Frank Mouris (born September 6, 1944 in Key West , Florida ) is an American film director and animator .

Life

Mouris studied architecture at Harvard University , graphic design at Yale University, and feature film production at the American Film Institute . In 1966 he married Caroline Ahlfors who, like him, studied at AFI. Together they founded the film production company Frank Films in 1972 and produced and shot their first experimental short film, Frank Film , which recapitulates the life of Frank Mouris via two parallel soundtracks and image collages. Frank Film was awarded an Oscar in 1974 in the category Best Animated Short Film and in 1996 it was included in the National Film Registry as "particularly worth preserving" . He also received the Cristal d'Annecy in 1973 at the Festival d'Animation Annecy . With Frankly Caroline , the Mouris' 2000 transferred the concept from Frank Film to Caroline Mouris.

After winning the Oscar, other experimental animated films followed, including two documentaries in stop-motion , as well as, with the luck of a beginner , a feature film in 1986. They also animated commercials for Levi's Shirts (1980) and PETA and worked for Sesame Street , MTV, Nickelodeon and the like. a. as a freelancer.

Filmography

  • 1973: Frank Film
  • 1973: Tennessee Sampler
  • 1975: Coney
  • 1975: Screen test
  • 1978: Impasse
  • 1978: And Then ...
  • 1979: LA LA, Making It in LA
  • 1986: Beginner's Luck
  • 1990: They Came from Outer Space, episode: Tennessee Lacey (TV series, animation sequence only)
  • 2000: Frankly Caroline
  • 2006: Radiant City (animation only)

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Frank Mouris . In: Jeff Lenburg: Who's who in animated cartoons . Applause, New York 2006, pp. 251-252.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See overview of all advertising orders ( Memento from September 8, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ See Heather Kenyon: On Winning an Oscar… Animation World Magazine, No. 4.1, April 1999. ( Memento of July 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ See dartmouth.edu; PDF, p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Mouris, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American animation filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Key West , Florida