Peter Foldes

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Peter Foldes , actually Péter Mihály Földes , (born August 22, 1924 in Budapest , † March 29, 1977 in Paris ) was a British animator and film director of Hungarian origin.

Life

Foldes was born in Budapest to a couple of doctors. In 1942 he began to study painting at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts , which he did not finish due to the war. He went to London via Paris in 1946 and studied painting at the Slade School of Fine Art and art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art at the University of London . Foldes worked with John Halas at Halas and Batchelor Animation Studios before creating his own animated films in the 1950s. Works like Animated Genesis and On Closer Inspection were created in collaboration with his wife Joan. The short film A Short Vision , which appeared in 1956 and portrayed the horrors of a nuclear war, caused a sensation .

Foldes went to Paris in the second half of the 1950s and initially turned to abstract painting. In the late 1960s he began to experiment with computer animation. He worked with the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF) and the National Film Board of Canada under René Jodoin . For the NFB he began working on the short film Metadata , the first animated film to be made using a graphics tablet . This was developed by the National Research Council of Canada . His next computer-animated short film for the NFB was Hunger in 1974 . The film, animated on a SEL 840A, was the first computer-animated film to receive an Oscar nomination in the category of Best Animated Short Film in 1975 . In addition to painting and film work, Foldes also worked as a comic artist ( Lucy series , 1974) and a commercial filmmaker.

Filmography

  • 1952: Animated Genesis
  • 1956: A Short Vision
  • 1964: Un appétit d'oiseau
  • 1965: Dim Dam Dom (TV series)
  • 1965: Un Garçon plein d'avenir
  • 1968: La Belle cérébrale
  • 1969: Je, do, elles ...
  • 1971: Metadata
  • 1971: Narcissus
  • 1974: hunger
  • 1977: Rêve
  • 1977: Visage

Awards

literature

  • Peter Foldes . In: Jeff Lenburg: Who's Who in Animated Cartoons . Applause, New York 2006, pp. 91-92.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. David Selden: Peter Foldes: Hunger . Network Awesome Magazine, Jan. 26, 2012.