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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.

Glass Crow




Glass Crow

A meditation of the "Defenestration of Prague" in 1618.  This event sparked the start of the Thirty Years War - a religious conflict which killed close to a third of the population of central Europe, and set its cultural development back by a century.

production, direction, animation, and sound by Steven Subotnick
with music by Joan LaBarbara and Alex Stolmack-Ness
2004, 6:20, color, sound, video


Selected Screenings:
2007 JAN    FIRST PLACE, Black Maria International Film & Video Festival
2006 JUN    CHARLES SAMU ANIMATION AWARD, Flaherty International Film Seminars
2006 NOV    International Animation Festival, Istanbul, TURKEY
2005 MAY    SHOESTRING AWARD, Rochester International Film Festival
2005 JAN     San Francisco Art Institute International Film & Video Festival, S.F., CA
2005 JAN     Standing Rock Film Festival, Kent, OH
2005 MAR     Tiburon International Film Festival, Tiburon, CA
2005 APR     HiLo Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
2005 MAY     AniFest, Trebon, Czech Republic
2005 JUN     Festival of Nations, Linz, Austria
2005 JUN     Melbourne International Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia
2005 AUG     London International Animation Festival, London, UK
2004 MAR     Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
2004 MAR     Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH "Cartoons from the Culture Lab"
2004 APR     Balagan Experimental Film & Video Series, Boston, MA
2004 APR     "Evening w/ Steven Subotnick" Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2004 APR     Portland PDX Film Festival, Portland, OR
2004 AUG     Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Hiroshima, Japan
2004 OCT     Ottawa International Animation Festival, Ottawa, Canada
2004 NOV     LA Film Forum, Los Angeles, CA

 
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