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Tangent Realms: The Worlds of C.M. Kösemen
Logline: A new documentary about a young Turkish artist exploring imagined worlds both vastly cosmic and deeply personal.
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“Tangent Realms: The Worlds of C.M. Kösemen” is a new documentary about a young Turkish artist who explores imagined worlds both cosmic and personal. By merging science with art, evidence with surrealism, the natural world with mythology, Memo Kösemen continuously asks a dominant theme in his various creations: “What If …?” It’s about what happens when we find ourselves at a unique point in our lives, and wonder about what might have been,...
In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.
Tangent Realms: The Worlds of C.M. Kösemen
Logline: A new documentary about a young Turkish artist exploring imagined worlds both vastly cosmic and deeply personal.
Elevator Pitch:
“Tangent Realms: The Worlds of C.M. Kösemen” is a new documentary about a young Turkish artist who explores imagined worlds both cosmic and personal. By merging science with art, evidence with surrealism, the natural world with mythology, Memo Kösemen continuously asks a dominant theme in his various creations: “What If …?” It’s about what happens when we find ourselves at a unique point in our lives, and wonder about what might have been,...
- 8/17/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
‘The Thief and the Cobbler’: Original version of Richard Williams’ animated film has first public screening at the Academy The first public screening of the original version of Richard Williams’ The Thief and the Cobbler will be held at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, December 10, 2013. Williams will be in attendance to introduce the recently reconstructed original workprint from 1992. The Thief and the Cobbler will be accompanied by Richard Williams’s 1972 Oscar-winning animated short A Christmas Carol, adapted from Charles Dickens’ 1843 novella. Featuring animation by Ken Harris and Abe Levitow, among others, A Christmas Carol has, according to the Academy’s website, "a distinctive and dark tone" inspired by John Leech’s engraved illustrations of the Dickens’ tale. In conjunction with the screenings, the Academy’s public exhibition “Richard Williams: Master of Animation,” featuring film clips,...
- 11/27/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
One of the highlights of last year's Doc NYC Film Festival was a film called "Persistence of Vision," that tracked the seemingly endless work by Canadian-born animator Richard Williams, on his never-truly-completed animated feature that would end up being released as "The Thief and the Cobbler." Now, watch a clip from the movie and come by the 92nd Street Y in New York City on Friday for a special screening of "Persistence of Vision," followed by a Q&A with director Kevin Schreck hosted by yours truly. All this week at the 92nd Street Y, there will be programming devoted to "Persistence of Vision" and its truly unique subject. It starts tomorrow with a screening of Robert Zemeckis' daffy masterpiece "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" (timed to its 25th anniversary), hosted by animator and screenwriter Richard Gorey. Williams and his London studio did the work behind the animated sections of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?...
- 2/26/2013
- by Drew Taylor
- The Playlist
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