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Steven Subotnick is an animator and artist living and working in Providence, RI. His animations have received international awards, and his work has been included in competitive and curated shows at festivals, museums, and galleries around the world. Steven has received numerous grants and fellowships, including a fellowship from the American Film Institute, grants from the LEF Moving Image Fund, and a residency at the MacDowell Colony. Steven has been invited to be a pre-selector and a judge at film and animation festivals. In addition to his work as an artist, Steven is also a dedicated teacher. He has taught animation at a number of institutions, including Rhode Island School of Design and Harvard University. In 2003, Steven wrote a book for Focal Press which focused on animation as a personal art practice.

Devils Book



Devil's Book

Hell as a physical object - the devil's ledger book - with each entry a damned soul.  The film is made from a combination of gestural abstractions, etchings, collages, and photographs.  Inspired by a short story by Isaac Peretz, Neilah in Gehenna.

production, direction, animation by Steven Subotnick
with music by Joan LaBarbara
1994, 5:00, color, sound, 35MM, 16MM, video


Selected Screenings: 
1999  "Art and Animation" Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
1998  "Avant-Garde Animators" Holland Animation Festival, Utrecht, Holland
1995  Melbourne International Animation Festival, Melbourne, Australia
1995  Festival Internacional de Cinema, Figuiera da Foz, Portugal
1996  "Fine Art Animation" International Animation Festival, Hiroshima, Japan
1996  "Visual Music" Stuttgart International Animation Festival, Stuttgart, Germany
1996  PBS "Image Union" showcase of independent cinema, WTTW, Chicago, IL
1994  DOUG HAYNES AWARD,  Onion City Film Festival, Chicago, IL
1994  JUROR’S CITATION, Black Maria Film & Video Festival, Jersey City, NJ
1994  FilmFest Dresden, Dresden, Germany
1994  FilmFest Zeeland, Zeeland, Holland
1994  Sinking Creek Film & Video Competition, Nashville, TN
1994  Holland Animation Festival, Utrecht, Holland
1994  New York Expo of Short Film, New York, NY
1994  Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Hiroshima, Japan


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