Academy Award nominee Paul Driessen, one of the greats in the world of animation and cartoons, walks you through his illustrious career.
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Recipient of more than fifty international prizes, including a prestigious Annie Award and an Academy Award nomination, Paul Driessen is sure of his spot amongst the greats in the genre of animation. With his instantly recognisable style and drawn worlds inhabited by whimsical characters, he has been of great influence for the Dutch animation industry. Perhaps most fascinating is how Driessen has been balancing simplicity and complexity for decades now. Somewhere between cheerful and melancholic, playful and dead serious, lighthearted and profound, his filmography is original to the bone. And Paul is here to walk you through it on the occasion of the publication of his autobiography My Life in Cartoons, published by At Bay Press (2024).
Born in 1940 in Nijmegen, just before the Germans invaded the Netherlands, Driessen didn't have a prosperous future cut out for him. Yet, he was fascinated by drawing little, funny figures from the very beginning, arguably inspired by his parents who were arts and culture advocates. After an isolated time in post-WOII Russia and depressing school days in Rotterdam, he got his chance at a small studio in Hilversum under the auspices of Jim Hiltz. His big break came when he was invited to go to London to work on the imaginative Beatles film Yellow Submarine (1968). In 1970, Driessen made his directorial debut, The Story of Little John Bailey, which was one of the very first indie animated shorts in the Netherlands. Hearing of the artistic freedom at the National Film Board of Canada, he moved overseas and began a long on/off collaboration with the NFB while also producing his own shorts in his home country. Deservedly so, Driessen's vision led him to an Academy Award nomination in 2000 for 3 Misses (1998). And Driessen's story is far from over.
Although he has been heard saying on record that he prefers to walk out of the room when he has to endure a retrospective of his own work, Paul has promised to stay put to tell you all about himself, his films and cartoons, and his intriguing life story.
After the screening Paul will be signing copies of his book at the Kaboom Café.
A woman falling off a roof, a woman tied to the tracks and some disturbing news about Snow White.
Een vrouw valt van een dak, een vrouw ligt vastgebonden op een treinrails en Sneeuwwitje wordt bijna vergiftigd door de heks. Wie komt de belaagde dames redden?
In modern industrial societies, humans breathe short and labored breaths, plants wither and animals pant. This animated film reminds the inhabitants of Earth that the poisonous atmosphere in which they live is killing them and that they must wake up.
A split screen tells the story of a sleeping man on land, a fisherman and his wife at sea and a bird in the sky.
De film vertelt split screen het verhaal van een slaper op het land, een visser en zijn vrouw op de zee en een vogel in de lucht.
The seven Grimm brothers (mistakenly we always assumed there were only two) are looking for inspiration for their fairy-tales. But the new stories they are writing (in live action) end (in animation) differently from the tales we know.
De zeven gebroeders Grimm (we hebben altijd ten onrechte gedacht dat er maar twee waren) zoeken inspiratie voor hun sprookjes. Maar de nieuwe verhalen die ze schri
This animated short by Paul Driessen tells the story of a boy with an overactive imagination. The young protagonist, bored with his lot, imagines a diabolic and dangerous life of adventure. But when he finally finds himself facing a real-life drama, the mundane life that he always wanted to escape is what he wishes to recapture. (NFBC)
About a boy with an over-active imagination. When our would-be hero, accustomed to eluding mobsters and monsters in his daydreams, finally finds himself facing a real-life drama, he can't believe his eyes..
Het is nog niet zo makkelijk om een held te zijn in een gevaarlijke situatie. Zelfs niet als je dag in dag uit geoefend hebt in je dromen.
Uncles and aunts and otherwise related people. Revealing snapshots of their lives and times. As long as they hold out, a series to be continued.
Ooms en tantes en andere familieleden. Onthullende kiekjes uit het leven van alledag. Zo lang zij er zijn, kan de serie worden vervolgd.
Ooms en tantes en andere familieleden. Onthullende kiekjes uit het leven van alledag. Zo lang zij er zijn, kan de serie worden vervolgd...
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