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Ushev/Lipsett Clermont
The text that I wrote for the CF catalog page of UL program.
La physique de la tristesse…
Mes traces dans la neige… Février. Lipsett… Qui? LIP-SETT. Le cul-de-sac de la rue Coronet, Montréal.
Tu te souviens de notre première rencontre?
Oui.
Le carnet en bleu. Les films. Les visages. Les voix. Ça passe vite… Ils me font peur. Le rythme, un son effrayant.
Je n’étais jamais ou j’étais. Il y avait une forêt derrière les boîtes… De vieilles cartes postales et des journaux. Le film est un oignon. Les couches d’un mécanisme prédéfini. A la fin, tout le monde pleure. Ou rit. Ça n’a pas d’importance…
La physique de la tristesse…
Here is the official schedule of Clermont-Ferrand Shortfilm fest screenings of Ushev/Lipsett programme.
Ushev/Lipsett – CF
C’est du rock-end-roll, les dernières préparations pour la programme Ushev/Lipsett à Clermont-Ferrand. Ca va être hyper conceptuelle – en fait, un long métrage, construit des shorts! Demain – online pour mon nouveau film, ils seront 2 nouveaux dans le programme. Merci a tous les gens magnifiques d’ONF, qui pendant les temps du fêtes, travailles fort pour les finir…
Old works from the dust
Today, I was cleaning my old back-up discs. And I discovered very old posters, and designs, that even me, I’m not able to trace in the time…All of the works should be from the time interval between 1995-2000. But the biggest surprise was my first animation Flash film. The final render comes from 15th of August, 1999. It’s been never posted, at that time Mortadellatv didn’t exist yet. And after that I forgot about that film, I always thought that my first aniweb film was Aurora, from December 99. Which make it, one the first Flash film ever made… (There were some Flash series that appeared on Lycos (after Animation Express at that time, don’t remember exactly what month) The film is called WATCH. And I’m not able to convert it any other video formats, cause the ver. of Flash is…2.0. Have to work on it…
Drux Flux remixes
Videos for Chineese Man and Wax Tailor mixed by VJ EX-KAF-K using Drux Flux.
From CutOut fest, Queretaro
Pressconference at Queretaro, Mexico. And yes, I believe in what I say…
Mexico
I’m out to Mexico for CutOut fest in Queretaro, to serve as a Jury, and give a talk about the film, animation, and everything else, You know… The list of the amazing speakers will include Fluorescent Hill, David O’Reilly, Tokyo Plastic, Julia Pott.
My conference will include some never seen before newbies, and it won’t have any walruses or dating conversations this time, I promise! But it will have something else, arghhh… The full schedule – here.
The Art of Nightingales
Many people asked me for posting some stills and art from the film “Nightingales in December”. Here they are.
Die Lipsett tagebucher
While “Lipsett…” is not officially online yet, someone posted an illegal version on Utube…in German. And I love how it sounds!
Happy animation day!
Exactly 12 Years ago, a group of designers signed the First Comes First design manifesto.
So, a little bit later, there is the FCF manifesto of the animation.
1. Draw at least one drawing a day.
2. Read, watch, listen.
3. Sex at least once a day.
4. Run or exercise at least 30 min. per day.
5. Don’t touch ugly things. They destroy Your sense of aesthetic.
6. Don’t do stupid jobs only for money.
7.Don’t drink cheap wine. Don’t eat in a cheap restaurants, no fast food! Don’t think about Your rent, or credits. If You buy a car – nothing less than a new expensive one. Better ecological hybrid. Everything less is a garbage.
8. Steal, steal, steal (this one is stolen from Yurii Norstein!)
9. Don’t watch Cartoon Network, or any other Cartoons, – it is dangerous for Your brain.
10. Always remember – a “G-Star” jacket or “7…” jeans is always more
valuable than Your film, no mater how many Years, months, or seconds You’ve spent on it.
and the additional:
11. (The Most important!) Don’t take seriously, don’t follow and trust this manifesto! 
Lipsett Diaries: A Tormented Life Animated
An article in the influential British magazine “Electric Sheep”.
To all of You who repeat that Tower Bawher is my best – read this:)
“Lipsett Diaries…It is certainly Ushev’s best film, although his animations have displayed technical virtuosity from the beginning. His first work – The Man Who Waited (2006) – re-tells a Kafka short story through a rapid, claustrophobic edit of images, hand-drawn in the style of German expressionist woodcuts. The fast pacing of Ushev’s filmmaking – something shared with Lipsett’s – is a real strength, and the retrospective included several shorts influenced by 20th-century art movements obsessed with mechanism and speed: constructivism, futurism and vorticism. Tower Bawher (2006) followed this pattern and re-trod a path pioneered in Russia at the start of last century. There was nothing new about the montages of newsprint, geometric blocks, architectural towers and saluting hands but the computer-generated speed did add a certain freshness to the images.”
Hippocrates
…occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile. The beginnig of this sentence is much more optimistic…
A little Pen story
Here is a story of my pen… I’ve never met Alzek Misheff in person, we only communicated recently by e-mail. I know that his son is becoming…a filmmaker…
Cartoonbrew
“Nightingales in December” is a hauntingly beautiful three-minute short by Theodore Ushev (Lipsett Diaries, Drux Flux). The film’s aggressive flood of painterly imagery, alternately violent and melodic, leaves a powerful impression on the viewer. Perhaps that’s because Ushev makes animated films with an emphasis on the filmmaking part of the equation. He understands that when space, time, and light are manipulated thoughtfully, animation can express a deeper emotional resonance. The individual pieces of artwork in Nightingales in December are lovely, to be sure, but it’s the way that Ushev builds it into an animated film that truly sings.”
Amid Amidi , Cartoonbrew
Nightingales in December
Nightingales in December will open Festival of New Cinema this evening, just before the feature film LA GUERRE EST DÉCLARÉE from Valérie Donzelli.
The Festival of New Cinema approached me early this Year with an astonishing proposition – to create a film, produced by the festival, as a Carte Blanche, for the 40th anniversary of the festival. The only condition – to be under 4 min. I’ve contacted the great Montreal musician Spencer Krug (Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown) about the music.
The animation is ROCK
Here is the prove - ” Lipsett diaries” as part of POP Montreal music festival. And stay tuned for two new films, that will rock You as nothing before…
The animation is rock…
The Echo
A great article as a result from London sessions. The Lipsett diarist.
The London happiness!
Yesterday, I bought a book with the last writings from Kurt Schwitters, while immigrant in London. There is text, how he died unrecognised, how a friend of him organised a reading of his poems (including the quintessential “Ursonnate”), and how there were 12 people at it. After that was reading about Turner, criticized and smashed by the crytics at that time…It is hard thing, the struggling of an artist, when he doesn’t get little or not recognition for his works allive…
Those days in London, organised by LIAF, in Barbican, were pure, pure happiness. The masterclass, the exhibition, the retrospective together with Lipsett films..I’ve never had such a great response, and interest before. The public, inteligent,just the questions were flowing one after another. The projection, the greatest that I’ve ever had for my films, the image, the sound. The feeling, just made me cry…I said somewhere before, that I can feel every person at the screening, his emotions, doubts, reaction. It makes me alive, to wish to continue. The live contact at the festivals, it cannot be compared with any Web clicks, or numbers, with any awards. There is not a better reaward, than a person, who just watched Roman Kroiter’ “Universe” before, found out about the event by chance, came, discussed together, etc…Big, big thanx to all the people at London Animation Festival, personally to Nag and Malcolm, and Mandy, the Barbican incredible organisation, and the office of Quebec in London, to make this happens. I don’t need any flights anymore, cause I suddenly got a pair of wings:)
Now, I can die, and stop making anything. I had my moment. Did I say don’t make anything. Well…Just got inspiration, and all my question answered about my next films, wallking to Thames canal, after seying the vortycists and Miro at Tate… This is London calling!
A frame from the new film
Here is the last painting that I did for my new film. Today was the final Mix. It is done. I cannot reveal more, it is still a secret. Some extracts will be shown on my upcoming workshop on 27th at The Barbican Center in London.
More details here.
So, if You are there, You will know and see more – rrom 2 new, never shown before films…