A screening & discussion with John Canemaker & Jon Gartenberg
Event Description:
The NYU Aging Incubator presents a screening and Q&A with Tisch Professor, John Canemaker, celebrated animator and Academy Award winner, and Jon Gartenberg, renowned film curator and NYU Tish Alum. Join us for a look at John’s animated short film, The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation, and a conversation that explores John’s personal perspective on aging.
Event Details:
Date: Thursday, January 25th, 2018
Time: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST
Location: NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Room: 006
Cost: Free
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About Our Speakers
Photographer Credit: Joseph Kennedy
Academy Award and Emmy Award-winner (The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation, 2005) John Canemaker heads the Animation program at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where he received a 2009 Distinguished Teaching Award.
His films are in MoMA’s collection and distributed by Milestone Film. He has written twelve acclaimed animation history books, numerous articles for major periodicals, and curated exhibitions for Walt Disney Family Museum and Katonah Museum of Art.
Canemaker received the Winsor McCay Lifetime Achievement Award from ASIFA-Hollywood, and two residencies from the Rockefeller Foundation.His blog, John Canemaker’s Animated Eye, explores art, animation and performance.
Jon Gartenberg is President of Gartenberg Media Enterprises, a company that is dedicated to archiving, distributing, and programming collections of moving image works. He was previously a curator in MOMA’s film department, where he worked on the restoration of films ranging from D.W. Griffith to Andy Warhol. Following that, he worked at Broadway Video Entertainment, where he oversaw a project to digitize and internationally distribute the television animation series, Underdog. His career path then led him to Golden Books Family Entertainment, where he collaborated on a project to re-publish The Little Golden Books, many of which contained original drawings by famous Disney artists.
Gartenberg has focused a significant part of his career on furthering the work and legacy of moving image artists. He acquired avant-garde films for the permanent collection at MOMA and programmed experimental films for the Tribeca Film Festival between 2003 and 2014. For the 2007 edition of the TFF, he organized a one-person tribute to John Canemaker. He has also spearheaded a comprehensive project to preserve, distribute, and curate international retrospectives of the films of Warren Sonbert. His company also distributes DVDs of experimental filmmakers to the university market in North America.
Gartenberg obtained his Masters degree from NYU’s Department of Cinema Studies, and was co-winner of the 1979 Society for Cinema Studies student award for scholarly writing.
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