AN EVENING WITH
JOANNA PRIESTLEY

A WORLD PREMIERE EVENT!
Directed, Aminmated & Edited by Joanna Priestley
United States. 90 minutes
Animation
SAT OCT 16 @ 7:30pm | Salem Cinema

Filmmaker Joanna Priestley in attendance

Joanna Priestley, the internationally acclaimed, "undisputed queen of indie animation" will present a retrospective of her brilliant, inventive, award winning short films, including the WORLD PREMIERE! of her new work, Eye Liner, a playful abstract animation that explores archetypes of the human face, patterning and cultural effigies that echo facial features.

Joanna Priestley has produced, directed and animated nearly two dozen exquisite, whimsical films about subjects dear to her heart: relationships, plants, magic and menopause. Her work is shown worldwide at festivals such as Sundance and Telluride and she has had retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Center for Contemporary Art (Warsaw, Poland), American Cinematheque (Los Angeles, CA) and the Stuttgart Animation Festival (Stuttgart, Germany). Priestley currently teaches animation at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland. She was founding president of ASIFA Northwest and has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts since 1992.

Program:

Voices (1985, 4 minutes, drawings on paper) Directed, produced and animated by Joanna Priestley. Sound by R. Dennis Wiancko. Voice by Joanna Priestley. “Priestley gets across a series of personal phobias in a refreshing and humorous fashion. We get a superb, contemporary animated film with salutes to historical cartoon figures scattered throughout. Delightful!” -Marv Newland, Northwest Film and Video Festival Juror.

All My Relations (1990, 5 minutes, drawings on paper with 3-D frames) Directed, produced and animated by Joanna Priestley. Voices by Victoria Parker and Scott Parker. Sound produced by Joanna Priestley. Sound effects by Dennis Wiancko. All My Relations satirizes the pitfalls of romance, from marriage, childbirth and upward mobility to the disintegration of a relationship.

Pro and Con (1993, 9 minutes, object and cel animation, puppets, drawings and clay painting)  Directed, produced and animated by Joanna Priestley and Joan Gratz. Sound produced by Lance Limbocker and Chel White. Music by Chel White. Narrated by Lt. Janice Inman and Allen Nause. “Con” written by Jeff Green. Commissioned through the Metropolitan Arts Commission's Percent for Art Program.  Pro and Con looks at the U.S. prison system through the eyes of a female, African American corrections officer and a white, male inmate.  The film includes self-portraits that were drawn by inmates at the Oregon State Penitentiary and contraband weapons and crafts that were confiscated from inmates. 

Grown Up (1993, 7 minutes, drawings on paper, pixillated hands and object animation) Directed, produced and animated by Joanna Priestley. Sound produced by Lance Limbocker. Written by Barbara Carnegie and Joanna Priestley. Music by Steve Christopherson and Warren Rand. Funded by ITVS and a Western States Regional Media Arts Fellowship.  “Everybody from Germaine Greer to Gloria Steinem to Betty Friedan are writing about aging, but what about middle aging? Priestley does a brilliant job of reclaiming 40, and believe me, I have a vested interest in this subject.  An animation that just might make twenty-somethings wish they were older.”  -B. Ruby Rich.

Streetcar Named Perspire  (2007, 6.5 minutes, 2D digital animation) Directed and produced by Joanna Priestley. Sound designed and produced by Lance Limbocker.  Music composed by John Smith.  Animation by Pascal Campion and Joanna Priestley.  Written by Joanna Priestley and Victoria Parker Pohl. Narrator: Paul Harrod.  Funding: Regional Arts and Culture Council. “Priestley’s animated roller coaster ride both previews and celebrates-  depending on your age- one of life’s most thrill-filled experiences.” -Heide Kuehn, Northwest Film and Video Festival

Utopia Parkway (1997, 5 minutes, drawings on paper, objects and replacement  animation).  Directed, produced and animated by Joanna Priestley.  Sound design and music by Jaime Haggerty. Edited by Chris Willging and Joanna Priestley. Funding provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.  Utopia Parkway was inspired by the box sculptures by Joseph Cornell, who lived in the same house on Utopia Parkway in Queens, New York, nearly all of his life.

Andaluz (2004, 6 minutes, drawings on paper)  Directed, produced and animated by Karen Aqua and Joanna Priestley. Sound designed and produced by Lance Limbocker. Music composed and produced by Ken Field and Juanito Pascual. Edited by Cam Williams. "Colors dance and landscapes morph to the rhythms of southern Spain in the latest work from two award-winning animators." -New York Film Festival

Dew Line (2005, 5 minutes, 2D digital animation)  Directed, produced and animated by Joanna Priestley. Sound designed and produced by Jaime Haggerty.  Supported by a grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council. “A rich abstract tapestry of botanical and biomorphic forms. Priestley’s first Flash animation is a striking continuation of her fluid playful style.” -Bill Foster,

Eye Liner  World Premiere!  (2011, 4 minutes, 2D digital animation)  Directed, produced and animated by Joanna Priestley. Sound Designed and produced by Seth Norman.  Supported by the Regional Arts and Culture Council.  Playful abstract animation that explores archetypes of the human face, patterning and cultural effigies that echo facial features.

Missed Aches  (2009, 4 minutes, 2D digital animation)  Directed, produced and animated by Joanna Priestley. Written and narrated by Taylor Mali. Sound Design by Normand Roger and Pierre Yves Drapeau. Music by Pierre Yves Drapeau with Denis Chartrand and Normand Roger. Text Animation by Brian Kinkley. Character design by Don Flores. Storyboards by Dan Schaeffer. Supported by the Regional Arts and Culture Council and the Caldera Institute.  “This uproarious animation by one of the nation’s iconic animation artists colorfully serves up a cascade of malapropisms.” –Black Maria Film Festival.