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Caroline Leaf

 
Director: Caroline Leaf
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  • Born: 1946
  • Occupation: Director
  • Active: '70s
  • Major Genres: Avant-garde / Experimental
  • Career Highlights: Street, The Owl Who Married a Goose
  • First Major Screen Credit: The Owl Who Married a Goose (1974)

Biography

Canadian independent filmmaker and animator Caroline Leaf is most recogized for the animated shorts she created for the National Film Board of Canada. To make her films, she prefers to use alternative methods to the traditional 'cel' animation preferred by commercial and Hollywood animators, which she feels are devoid of emotion in their portrayal of stereotypical characters and recurrent gags. The linear, highly segmented process of creating traditional cartoons also does not appeal to her; instead she prefers to use alternative, more free-flowing techniques. In her first film, Sand, or Peter and the Wolf (1969), made while she was still studying at Harvard, Leaf used sand on backlit glass which she manipulated about with common implements such as a fork. Her 1976 short, The Street, based on a story by Mordecai Richler that tells of a young boy in a Montreal Jewish neighborhood anxiously awaiting his grandmother's death so he can have her room, was done using wet paint on glass, and was nominated for an Academy Award. In 1979, she collaborated on a documentary that used a combination of documentary and animation with Veronica Soul. Between then and 1985 she made several non-animation films for the National Film Board. She has since returned to animation. One of her more recent works involves the scratching of an image directly upon the black film leader. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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Caroline Leaf (born 1946 in Seattle, Washington) is a Canadian-American filmaker and animator.

Leaf made her first film, Sand, or Peter and the Wolf, in 1968 at Harvard University. The short was made by dumping sand on a light box and manipulating the textures frame-by-frame.

Her second film, Orfeo (1972), had her painting directly on glass under the camera. Later that year she was invited to join the National Film Board of Canada's English Animation Studio.

She mixed paint with glycerine to produce The Street, adapted from the short story of the same name by Mordechai Richler, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 49th Academy Awards.[1]

From 1981 until 1986 she worked on various live action documentary films. In 1986 she produced her first animation in nearly a decade by scratching on 70mm color film and reshooting it on 35mm. "Two Sisters" (1990) won the award for best short film at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in 1991.[2]

She worked as an animator/director at the NFB until 1991.

In 1991 she left animation temporarily to work on documentary films.

In 2004 she contributed animation to a film about the Underground Railroad.

Caroline Leaf currently lives in London and is a tutor at The National Film and Television School.

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Filmography

  • 1969 Sand or Peter and the Wolf
  • 1972 Orfeo
  • 1972 How Beaver stole fire
  • 1974 The owl who married a goose
  • 1976 The Street
  • 1977 The metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa
  • 1979 Interview
  • 1981 Kate and Anna McGarrigle
  • 1981 The right to refuse
  • 1982 An equal opportunity
  • 1983 Pies
  • 1985 The owl and the pussycat
  • 1986 The fox and the tiger
  • 1986 A dog's tale
  • 1990 Two Sisters
  • 1991 I Met a Man
  • 1992 Bell Partout
  • 1994 Fleay's Fauna Centre
  • 1995 Brain Battle
  • 1995 Radio Rock Détente
  • 1996 Drapeau Canada
  • 1998 Absolut Leaf
  • 2001 Odysseus & the Olive Tree

See also

References

  1. ^ Leaf, Caroline. "The Street". NFB.ca. National Film Board of Canada. http://www.nfb.ca/film/The_Street. Retrieved 2009-07-05. 
  2. ^ Leaf, Caroline. "Two Sisters". NFB.ca. National Film Board of Canada. http://www.nfb.ca/film/two_sisters. Retrieved 2009-07-05. 

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