Plain Face from Tess Martin on Vimeo.
In a fantastical land, a stranger arrives and is the subject of prejudice, violence and love. We follow her journey through memory as she decides whether to give up her heart. The characters and settings of this 10 minute long short were created using paper and plastic cut-outs, animated frame by frame on a backlit stand.
Directed and Animated by Tess Martin; Sound: Production House Media; Music: Jason Staczek; Compositing: Charlie Daugherty
Made possible by: 4Culture, The City of Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, Artist Trust, The Puffin Foundation
Below you can see a short lecture given at the Henry Art Gallery, given in conjuction with the (Be)Longing group show at the Kirkland Arts Center in March 2011, in which Plain Face was included.
Screenings:
Plain Face, my animated short completed in 2011 is now included on the Journal of Short Film 27th Volume DVD. The DVD can be purchased here. Plain Face is one of five films, including Dear Bill Gates by Sarah J. Christman and Locomotion in Water by Hanna Rose Shell.
My short A Moment’s Reverie is included on the Vol 22 DVD, so I’m super excited to have another film in the collection.
The Seattle Experimental Animation Team is happy to announce their first collective gallery show at the Gage Academy, opening August 3rd, 2012 and up until September 1st (the Steele Gallery is open daily 10AM-6PM). That evening there will also be an artist lecture with co-curators by Tess Martin and Webster Crowell. Deatils above – don’t miss it!
My animated short Plain Face will be screening at the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, a student run international festival at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. It will be screening on May 4th: http://www.filmmilwaukee.org/ Looks like a good line-up. If you know anyone in Milwaukee, encourage them to attend!
The Inter-Action program of animated shorts from the Seattle Experimental Animation Team is playing on Thursday, May 17th at the NW Film Center in Portland, OR. Here is the listing on the NW Film Center site. This 75 minute program is comprised of twelve original shorts, including my own Plain Face, Drew Christie‘s The Man [...]
I’m happy to announce that Plain Face (10:42, dir. Tess Martin, 2011) is now online! You can watch it in full below or here. It will also be up on the e4c screens for a full year! Below is a picture from the launch last night.
Plain Face, my animated short that premiered at SIFF in May, will be launched on the e4C screens during tomorrow night’s Pioneer Square Art Walk. If you’re walking that night, make sure to stop by 4Culture for the reception! But if you can’t make it, don’t despair. It will be up on the screens, on [...]
Did you miss the Inter-Action program of animated shorts when it screened at the NWFF in June? Well, fear not! It is playing once more at the Naked City Brewery in Greenwood, this Wednesday, February 1st! And it’s free! If this sounds familiar, it’s because the January 18th screening fell right in the middle of [...]
Starting February 2nd you’ll be able to see Plain Face, my animated short that premiered at SIFF in May, on the big beautiful monitors of 4Culture’s media gallery, e4C. A reception at 4Culture will mark the launch on February 2nd, and is part of Pioneer Square’s First Thursday Art Walk. Stay tuned for more details [...]
Did you miss the Inter-Action program when it screened at the NW Film Forum on June 16th 2011? Now’s your chance to see all 12 locally-made animated short films for free (!) at the Naked City Brewery in their monthly film night, Third Wednesday with Northwest Film Forum. Here is the Facebook event. And here [...]
My animated short Plain Face is screening at the Victoria Film Festival on February 11th as part of the Animation Alive! shorts program. I will be attending! I’ve never been to Vancouver Island before, so this should be fun.