Thomas Renoldner

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Thomas Renoldner (2018)

Thomas Renoldner (born January 14, 1960 in Linz ) is an Austrian film director and film curator .

Life

Thomas Renoldner graduated from the Academic Gymnasium in his native Linz in 1978 . As early as 1976 he was active as an artist. His forms of expression became painting, music, film, installation and performance . Renoldner studied education and psychology at the University of Innsbruck and the University of Salzburg from 1979 to 1983 . From 1998 to 1994 he studied experimental design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna , where he attended the master class of Maria Lassnig and Christian Ludwig Attersee . His diploma film Rhythm 94 is based on a photo sequence by Eadweard Muybridge . It has been shown at numerous film festivals, including the Director's Choice Award at the 1996 Black Maria Festival in New Jersey .

From 1992 to 2003 Renoldner headed ASIFA Austria, the Austrian branch of the international animated film association Association internationale du film d'animation (ASIFA). From 1994 he worked on the international board of ASIFA. He also published research on the history of animated film in Austria. In addition to his own short animated, experimental and advertising films, Thomas Renoldner also worked as a producer of animated films by other artists from 2000 , including Sabine Groschup , Nicolas Mahler , Heinz Wolf and Linda Wolfsgruber .

After holding animation workshops for children, adolescents and adults since the early 1990s, he was given a year-long teaching position for animated film at the Linz Art University in 2002 . In 2004 he became a lecturer at the Vienna Art School and in 2005 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and permanent director of the animation film studios there. In 2006 he also began teaching animation film at the SAE Institute in Vienna . As a curator, Renoldner designed Austrian film programs for foreign film festivals and international programs for Austrian film festivals. Since 2009 he has been one of the two chief curators of the Animation Avantgarde competition at the Vienna Shorts film festival . Since 2005 he has been curating the One Day Animation Festival in Vienna , later the 2 Days Animation Festival . He was also a member of the juries of several international animation film festivals.

Thomas Renolder was one of the 28 Austrian filmmakers who were invited on the occasion of the Vienna Mozart Year 2006 to create a one-minute short film for the project The Mozart Minute , and created the film Mozart Party 06 for it . In Sunny Afternoon from 2012 he dealt with the topic of time on various levels. The short film has been shown at many festivals and won a special award for the best music film at the Animator Festival 2012 in Poznań . In Fuck the Cancer! Renoldner dealt with his own cancer in 2016. His 2019 film Dont Know What , presented at numerous film festivals , in which he combines the experimental film tradition with slapstick elements, won the main prize of the Ottawa International Animation Festival 2019 and is in the Best Short Film category for the Annie Award 2020 nominated.

Filmography

  • 1980: shortness of breath
  • 1981: Kobbla Mamfred
  • 1982: You have 15 seconds to say something particularly important
  • 1983: The boundary lines of the projection surface
  • 1984: Il carnevale
  • 1985: Longing: Wilderness
  • 1985: Are you waiting for something special?
  • 1987: film sculpture
  • 1987: The window
  • 1987: The dialogue
  • 1989: house / wife
  • 1989: Shark in the City
  • 1989: one blow too many
  • 1989: structure / dissolution
  • 1990: cube
  • 1991: Colorful
  • 1992: Lonely Cowboy in 1992
  • 1994: rhythm 94
  • 1996: Picnic in the green
  • 1997: Hiroshima, August 92
  • 1997: time space
  • 1998: SC01 - Belo Horizonte. April 97
  • 1998: Sophia's Year
  • 2012: Sunny Afternoon
  • 2016: Fuck the Cancer!
  • 2019: Dont Know What

Fonts

  • Animated film in Austria: 1900–1970 . Booklet accompanying the film show. ASIFA, Vienna 1995.
  • What is animation? In: Christian Dewald, Sabine Groschup , Mara Mattuschka , Thomas Renoldner (eds.): The art of the single image. Animation in Austria - 1832 until today . Filmarchiv Austria, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-902531-66-7 , pp. 11-40 .
  • Animation in Austria - 1832 until today . In: Christian Dewald, Sabine Groschup, Mara Mattuschka, Thomas Renoldner (eds.): The art of the single image. Animation in Austria - 1832 until today . Filmarchiv Austria, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-902531-66-7 , pp. 41-154 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Gerald Bast (ed.): With my own eyes. Artists from the former master class Maria Lassnig = With Their Own Eyes. Former Students of Maria Lassnig . Springer, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-211-77840-1 , p. 169 .
  2. ↑ a b c Thomas Renoldner. ASIFA Austria, accessed on January 13, 2020 (English).
  3. ^ Rhythm 94th Synopsis. In: sixpackfilm database. Retrieved January 13, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Rhythm 94. Festivals (selection). In: sixpackfilm database. Retrieved January 13, 2020 .
  5. ^ The Mozart Minute. Synopsis. In: sixpackfilm database. Retrieved January 13, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Sunny Afternoon. Synopsis. In: sixpackfilm database. Retrieved January 13, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Sunny Afternoon. Festivals (selection). In: sixpackfilm database. Retrieved January 13, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Fuck the Cancer! Synopsis. In: sixpackfilm database. Retrieved January 13, 2020 .
  9. ↑ a b Dan Sarto: Part 1 of Thomas Renoldner's 'Don't Know What' Now Online. In: AWN.com. January 8, 2020, accessed on January 13, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Amid Amidi: 'Our Sound,' 'Don't Know What' Top 2019 Ottawa Int'l Animation Festival. In: Cartoon Brew. September 30, 2019, accessed January 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Renoldner, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film director and film curator
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz