Michaela Pavlátová
| Michaela Pavlátová | |
|---|---|
 Michaela Pavlátová in Brooklyn, May 2004, photographed by Nina Paley. | |
| Born |
Michaela Pavlátová 1961 Prague, Czechoslovakia |
| Nationality | Czech |
| Occupation | director, animator |
| Website | |
| http://www.michaelapavlatova.com/ | |
Michaela Pavlátová (born February 27, 1961)[1] is a Czech filmmaker and animator, from Prague, Czech Republic.
Prize-winning films
Pavlátová's animated films have received numerous awards at international film festivals, including an Oscar nomination in 1993 for the 65th Academy Awards and the Grand Prix at the International Film Festival Montreal for Reci, Reci, Reci/Words, Words, Words. Her short animated film, Repete, won a series of awards including the Golden Bear for a short film at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1995,[2][3] the Special Jury Prize at Annecy in 1997[4] and the Grand Prix at the Hiroshima International Animation Festival in 1996.[5]
In 2006, with her husband, Vratislav Hlavaty, she finished the animated film Karneval zvirat (Le Carnaval des Animaux / The Carnival of Animals).
Her most recent film, Tram, won the Cristal Annecy at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in 2012,[6] and made the short list for an Oscar nomination in 2012.[7] This erotic fantasy of a female tram driver was intended to be part of an anthology titled Sexperiences, directed by Sandra Schultze, and produced by Ron Dyens at Sacrebleu Productions, a project that was the product of a "search for inspiration for a collaborative effort among women animators to explore feminine views of sexuality."[8]According to critic Olivier Cotte, "Desire and sensuality are abiding preoccupations" in Pavlátová's films.[9] The film took six months to produce, using Adobe Flash.[4]
Commercial Work
Between in 1998 and 2001, Pavlátová divided her time between Prague and San Francisco, where she began working as an art director at the animation company Wild Brain. At Wild Brain, she produced commercial work for Nestle, Kodak, Mazda, and Wrigley’s Winterfresh Gum, and also created and directed Graveyard,[10] an original animated series about unlucky events which resulted in death. Graveyard went on to be featured in the Panorama exhibition at Annecy and won First Place in its category at the World Animation Celebration.[11] It was originally created using Adobe Flash as an interactive site on the web that required users to click on a grave to view an episode, but it was subsequently edited into 5-minute versions of selected stories to create the film.[12] Pavlátová says of her switch to Flash in the late 1990s, "It's suddenly a big freedom for animators. They can do it at home." [13]
Live Action Fims
In Prague in 2003, Pavlátová directed the live action film Neverne hry (Faithless Games), starring Zuzana Stivinova and Peter Bebjak. In 2008 she directed another feature film Deti noci / Ofka (Children of Night / Ofka), based on a script by Irena Hejdova.
Education and Teaching
Pavlátová graduated from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague in 1987.[4] She teaches animation in Prague at the FAMU / Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Film and TV School. She has also taught at the VSUP / Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design in Prague, and abroad, in San Francisco at the Academy of Art University, the Computer Arts Institute, and the California College of the Arts, as well as in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University.[14]
Selected Filmography
Animation
- Tramvaj (Tram): 2012, 8 min. – Winner of the Annecy Cristal prize at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, 2012
- Cirkus Kaktus (Circus Cactus): 2010, 5 min.
- Telefono: 2010, 1 min.
- Karneval Zvirat (Carnival of Animals): 2006, 11 min., with Vratislav Hlavaty
- Laila: 2006, 5 min.
- Graveyard, 2000, 5 min.
- Az naveky (Forever and Ever"), 1998, 15 min.
- Repete: 1995, 9 min. – Special Prize of the Jury, Annecy International Animated Film Festival, 1995
- Uncles and Aunts, 1992. 5 min.
- This could be me, 1995, 3 min.
- Reci, Reci, Reci (Words, Words, Words), 1991, 8 min. – Oscar Nomination, 1993
Live Action
- Deti Noci (Night Owls): 2008, 80 min. http://www.detinoci.cz
- Neverne Hry (Faithless Games): 2003, 93 min. http://www.nevernehry.cz
- Absolute Love: 1999, 20 min., part of Praha Ocima (Prague Stories)
References
- ↑ Internet Movie Database: Michaela Pavlátová http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0667912/
- ↑ Prizes & Honours 1995 http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1995/03_preistr_ger_1995/03_Preistraeger_1995.html
- ↑ Berlin International Film Festival, Awards for 1995 http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000091/1995
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Michaela's Methods" by Ramin Zahed. Animation Magazine, December 2012, p. 39
- ↑ Hiroshima 1996(6) Aug.22–26 http://hiroanim.org/en2012/e01about/1-06-06e.html
- ↑ http://www.animationmagazine.net/events/tram-and-crulic-win-annecys-top-prizes/
- ↑ http://blog.bcdb.com/ten-animated-shorts-move-2012-oscar-race-5123/
- ↑ "The Final Shorts Countdown," Animation Magazine Vol. 27, Issue 2, No. 227, February 2013, p. 23.
- ↑ "Michaela Pavlátová: Frustrated Coupling", by Olivier Cotte (translated by Claire Kitson), in Animating the Unconscious: Desire, Sexuality and Animation, ed. Jayne Pilling, Wallflower Press 2012, page 44.
- ↑ http://www.wildbrain.com/animation/our_work/projects/graveyard_picnic_QT.html
- ↑ http://www.wildbrain.com/animation/about_us/bios/d_michaela.html
- ↑ http://www.streamingfestival.com/archive/2006/artists.php?id=134&f=Michaela&l=Pavlatova
- ↑ "Cartoonist From Prague Goes Online," The San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 24, 2000, p. 7
- ↑ The Harvard Crimson: Happening Ongoing Events, February 27, 2004: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2004/2/27/happening-btheaterbpcosi-fan-tuttepthe-dunster-house/
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