Patrick Jenkins is an award winning artist, animator and documentary filmmaker. He was a Special Guest Filmmaker at: the 2013 Melbourne International Animation Festival, Melbourne, Australia; the 2012 London International Animation Festival, London, U.K.; and in 2011 at Anima VI, the Córdoba International Animation Festival, in Córdoba, Argentina; screening his movies and conducting workshops in animation. His film “Circle Game” (2014) was shown in 2015 at Le Festival Heure d’Été à Bruxelles, in Belgium and numerous international festivals. His film “Sorceress” (2012) was shown in competition at the London International Animation Festival, London, U.K., the Melbourne International Animation Festival, Melbourne, Australia, and BE FILM (The Underground Film Festival), New York, U.S.A. His previous film “Tara’s Dream” won both Second Prize and Best Animation Prize at the 2010 Toronto Urban Film Festival. His film “Amoeba” won first prize at the 2010 Toronto Animated Image Society Showcase. His film "Inner View” (2009), an animated homage to the art of Canadian artist Kazuo Nakamura was an Official Selection of Animafest, in Zagreb, Croatia in 2010. His film "Labyrinth" (2008), a surreal detective story, won 1st place in the Independent, 6 to 30 Minutes Category, at the 2009 KAFI Festival and 3rd Prize for animation at the 2010 Be Film Festival in New York City and was included in the dvd the Highlights of the London International Animation Festival 2009. His documentaries, "Of Lines And Men: The Animation Of Jonathan Amitay" and "Death Is In Trouble Now: The Sculptures Of Mark Adair" premiered on BRAVO! Television in October 2007. His film “The Skateboarder” premiered at the 2005 Montreal World Film Festival and was shown at the 2005 Ottawa International Animation Festival and the prestigious 2006 Annecy Animation Festival in Annecy, France. His documentary film "RALPH: Coffee, Jazz and Poetry, The Poetry of Ralph Alfonso" premiered at the 2001 Montreal World Film Festival and was broadcast on CBC Television's Canadian Reflections and BRAVO! Television.(For more information go to http://www.interlog.com/~pjenkins/televisionwork.html)
Education:
-M.F.A. and Honours B.F.A. in Visual Arts, York University, Toronto
Awards:
"Tara's Dream" won both Second Prize and Best Animation Prize at the 2010 Toronto Urban Film Festival
"Amoeba" won first prize at the 2010 Toronto Animated Image Society Showcase
"Labyrinth" won 1st place in the Independent, 6 to 30 Minutes Category, at the 2009 KAFI Festival in Kalamazoo, U.S.A. and 3rd Prize for animation at the 2010 Be Film Festival in New York City and was selected for the dvd the Best of the London International Animation Festival 2009.
-1995 -Bronze Apple Award for "Animation For Kids", National Educational Media Competition, Oakland, California, U.S.A.
Collections:
-Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa; York University, Toronto
-Canada House, London, England
-Toronto Reference Library, Special Collections, Artists Book
Grants:
-2017 Chalmers Arts Fellowship Grant, Ontario Arts Council
-Past President and Administrator: Toronto Animated Image Society, Toronto
-Past Board Member: Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre and YYZ Gallery, Toronto
-Past Vice President: Funnel Experimental Film Theatre, Toronto
Professional and Work Experience:
-2016 –“Circle Game” shown in the exhibition Abstractionists, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
-2016 -“Phantom City”, at 21 Festivals, including: the Imagine Film Festival, Amsterdam, Holland; Melbourne International Animation Festival, Melbourne, Australia; Chilemonos Festival Internacional de Animacion, Santiago, Chile; the Golden Kuker-Sofia International Animation Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria; Ottawa International Animation Festival; Anim’est International Animation Festival, Bucharest, Romania; ANIMASIVO, Mexico City Contemporary Animation Festival, Mexico; Anima Mundi International Animation Festival, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Australian International Animation Festival, Wagga Wagga, Australia; Sydney International Film Festival, Sydney, Australia; New Zealand International Film Festival, Auckland, New Zealand; Lowlands Festival, Evenemententerrein Walibi Holland, Biddinghuizen, The Netherlands; Australian International Animation Festival, Brisbane, Australia; Newcastle International Animation Festival, Newcastle, Australia and Animated Dreams, Tallinn, Estonia.
-2015 -completes “Phantom City”, a short paint on glass animated film which is screened at Animax Skopje Fest 2015 in Macedonia and Sommets du cinema d’animation, Montreal
-2015 -Tours Western Canada presenting his films at Cineworks, Vancouver; Media Net, Victoria; Emily Carr University, University of Regina, and University of Victoria.
-2015 -“Circle Game” shown at the Animex, International Festival of Animation, England; MIAF 2015, Melbourne, Australia; the Sydney Film Festival, Sydney, Australia, and Rendez-Vous Heure D’Ete, Cinema Galleries, Brussels, Belgium
-2014 –completes “Circle Game”, a short animated film, which is selected for competition at the Antimatter Media Art Festival, Victoria, B.C.; the London International Animation Festival, England and the Sommets du cinema d’animation, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
-2013 -Flown to the Melbourne International Animation Festival, Australia as a Special Guest Filmmaker, where he does a talk on his work; introduces 3 programs of Independent Canadian Animation (including 3 of his own films); and conducts an animation workshop.
-2012 -completes “Sorceress”, a short animated film, which is selected for competition at the Melbourne International Animation Festival, Australia; the BEFILM, Underground Film Festival, New York City; and the London International Animation Festival, England, which he attends as Guest Filmmaker, conducting animation workshops, participating on a panel on Animated Documentaries and judging the Abstract Animation Competition.
-2012 -completes "Morphing City Hall", a flip book, which is included in the project Flip-Toronto and acquired by Special Collections, Toronto Reference Library
-2012 -"Tara's Dream" selected for competition at Festival Monstra, Lisboa, Portugal
-2011 -"Inner View" selected for competition at the Melbourne International Animation Festival, Melbourne, Australia; the London International Animation Festival, England; and shown at Monstra Film Festival, Lisboa, Portugal
-2011 -Guest Filmmaker at Anima VI, the Cordoba International Animation Festival, in Cordoba, Argentina, where he conducted a paint on glass animation workshop and screened his films "Inner View" and "Amoeba" (which was in International Competition).
-2011-"Amoeba" screened at the Plastic Paper Animation Festival, Winnipeg, Manitoba
-2011-"Tara's Dream", official selection: BEFILM, Underground Film Festival, New York City and shown at Les Sommets du Cinema D'animation, Montreal, Canada
-2010 -completes "Tara's Dream" which wins both the Second Prize and the Best Animation by a Local Artist Prize at the Toronto Urban Film Festival
-2010-completes "Amoeba", an abstract, animated film based on music by John Zorn, which wins award, Best of Show (Gold), TAIS Showcase, Toronto.
-2010-"Labyrinth" wins animation award at BEFILM the Underground Film Festival, New York City; is shown at Artspace, Peterborough; and the Tel Aviv Animation Festival, Israel.
-2010-"Inner View" is selected for competition at Animafest, Zagreb, Croatia; and screened at: Anima Mundi Animation Festival, Brazil; the Ottawa International Animation Festival and in the exhibition "Eleven In Motion" at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa
-2010-Gallery Show of giclee prints and films, Loop Gallery, Toronto (Group Exhibition)
-2009 -"Labyrinth" wins 1st place, (Independent Category), at KAFI 2009, Kalamazoo, U.S.A. and included in the "Best of the London International Animation Festival 2009 DVD", U.K.
-2009 -"Labyrinth" screens at the Goteborg International Film Festival, Sweden; Animabasque, Bilbao, Spain; the Philadelphia Film Festival; the Melbourne International Animation Festival; the Australian International Animation Festival; and the visual arts exhibition "Frame To Frame", Harbourfront Centre, Toronto.
-2009-creates "Inner View", animated short film based on the art of Kazuo Nakamura shown at the TIFF Cinematheque and Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto and Les Sommets du Cinema D'animation, Montreal, Canada
-2009-completes Towers Rising, an animated loop, shown at Photorama, Gallery TPW
-2009-documentary "Death Is In Trouble Now" shown at the Woodstock Art Gallery in the exhibition: Mark Adair: Twister, Daphne and Apollo, Last Garden.
-2008 -"Labyrinth", Director/Animator, a paint on glass animated film, chosen as an Official Selection of the 18th World Festival of Animated Film, Animafest, Zagreb, Croatia and screened at the Odense International Film Festival, Denmark; the Anima Mundi Animation Festival, Brazil; Animadrid, Spain; the Montreal World Film Festival; the Ottawa International Animation Festival; the Vancouver International Film Festival; and Les Sommets du Cinema D'animation, Montreal, Canada.
-2007 -Two documentaries, directed by Patrick Jenkins, "Death Is In Trouble Now: The Sculptures Of Mark Adair" and "Of Lines and Men: The Animation of Jonathan Amitay" broadcast on BRAVO! Television.
-2007 -"The Skateboarder", selected as a finalist at the Kalamazoo Animation Festival International
-2007 -Curator: Museum Retrospective, "Death Is In Trouble Now: The Sculptures Of Mark Adair", Rodman Hall Art Centre, St. Catherines, Ontario
-2006 -"Daumen Kino", FotoMuseum, Antwerp, Belgium
-2006 -"The Skateboarder", shown at the Annecy International Animation Festival, Annecy, France;
Cinematheque Quebecoise, Montreal; Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth, Vancouver and
The Canadian Filmmakers Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
-2006 -Curator: John Straiton Retrospective, Ottawa International Animation Festival
-2006 -Curator: Beyond Cartoons-Animating the Personal, Cineworks, Vancouver, B.C.
-2005 -"Terrace Gallery" exhibitions of paintings, Toronto
-2005 -"The Skateboarder", Director/Animator, animated short film premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival and the Ottawa International Animation Festival
-2005 -"Man Versus Geometry" shown at the Annecy International Animation Festival, Annecy, France; Cinematheque Quebecoise, Montreal, Canada; and Anifest 3, Budapest, Hungary
-2005 -Two Flipbooks by Patrick Jenkins included in a museum exhibition "Daumen Kino (The Flipbook Show)" at Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
-2004 -"Man Versus Geometry", Director/Animator, stop motion animated short. Premiered at the 2004 Ottawa International Animation Festival.
-2003 -Visiting Filmmaker, Cineworks Production Co-op, Vancouver, B.C.
-2003 -"Ralph: Coffee, Jazz and Poetry", broadcast on Bravo! TV, Canada
-2003 -"Dancing Street", Director/Animator, animated music video
-2003 -Editor, "Dance That Makes A Difference", Dance Documentary
-2002 -"Ralph: Coffee, Jazz and Poetry" broadcast on CBC Television's "Canadian Reflections" and at "Night of the Living Independents" screening, TAIS, Toronto
-2002 to 2003 -Administrator, Toronto Animated Image Society's Animators' Production Co-op, Toronto
-2002 -Curator: Jonathan Amitay Retrospective, Ottawa International Animation Festival
-2001 -"Ralph:Coffee, Jazz and Poetry; The Poetry of Ralph Alfonso", Director/Animator, Documentary, premiered at the 2001 Montreal World Film Festival and the 2001 JVC Jazz "Reel Jazz" Film Festival, Toronto
-2001 -"Frame by Frame, Films by Toronto Animators", Curator and participating filmmaker, Ed Video, Guelph.
-2001 -"Crawling Around In A Fountain", Director/Animator
-2000 -"This is My Corner of the World", premiered at the Toronto Digital Image Festival
-2000 -"Can You Pretend?", directed and animated children's music video for Bullseye Records of Canada
-1999 -"The Goatee Club", premiered at the Toronto Digital Image Festival and at the screening: Recent Films By Toronto Animators at Cinecycle, Toronto.
-1998 -President, Toronto Animated Image Society
-1998 -"Other Worlds", exhibition of drawings, John B. Aird Gallery,Toronto
-1997 -"Venus In Violets", Director/Animator, animated music video of a song by Vancouver poet Ralph Alfonso, Bongo Beat Records, shown on MuchMusic.
-1996 -"Animal Tales", Director/Producer/Animator, a series of cut-out animated films.
-1994 -"Animation for Kids, How To Make Your Cartoons Move", Associate Producer, Writer, Animator and On Screen Host, an educational videotape.
-1993 -"Coca-Cola Alien", Animation Storyboarding, Character and Animation Design for CD ROM application, Coca Cola Limited and King West Communications.
-1993 -"Out of This World" and "The Magic Wand", two flipbooks, Animator.
-1992 -Animation Workshop, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
-1991 -"Flipbook Animation and Other Ways To Make Cartoons Move",Author/Illustrator, instructional book on animation for children, published by Kids Can Press (Canada) and the Addison Wesley Publishing Company (U.S.A.)
-1991 -"Skateboarding" and "Slap Shot!", two flipbooks, Animator.
-1990 -"The Flipbook Movie", Director/Producer/Animator, animated film.
-1990 -"Clutching The Heat", Cinematographer/Editor for movies created for the play,Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto.
-1989 -"The Amazing Children's Animated Movie Workshop", Associate Producer, Writer, Animator and On Screen Host, 1/2 Hour Television Program produced with and broadcast on the Roger's Cable Television System, Toronto.
-1989 -"Art In Animation", exhibition of animation artwork, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto.
-1989 -"Moving Images", TVOntario Television Network, Toronto, Canada.
-1988 -"Play Ball!" and "A Fishy Tale", two flipbooks, Animator.
-1988 -"Independent Animation", National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
-1987 to 1998- Books That Move Flipbooks, Animator and Publisher. Clients include The Museum Company Stores, The Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rizzoli Bookstores and the M. H. De Young Museum, San Francisco.
-1987 -"Four Short Animated Films", Director/Producer/Animator, animated film.
-1987 -York/China Exchange Exhibition, art exhibition Hangzhou, China.
-1987 -"Toronto: A Play of History", Power Plant Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
-1986 to 1998-Animation Workshops, directed for the National Film Board of Canada; the Art Gallery of Ontario; Harbourfront Centre; the Atlantic Film Festival, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Mohawk College; Humber College and school boards throughout Ontario.
-1985/87-Visiting Lecturer, Visual Arts, York University, Toronto, Canada.
-1983/85-Visiting Assistant Professor of Film, Production, York University, Toronto.
-1984 -"Uncommon Language", exhibition, London Regional Art Gallery, London, Canada.
-1983 -Broadcast of Films, WNED Channel 17, Buffalo, New York, U.S.A. and Antennae 2 T.V., Paris, France.
-1983 -Film Screenings, Tyneside Cinema and Canada House Cinema, United Kingdom; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; Oakville Art Gallery, Oakville, Canada.
-1982 -"Sign Language", exhibition of drawings, Mercer Union Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
-1982 -Film Screenings, Millenium Film Theatre, New York City; Pasadena Film Forum, Pasadena, California; Akademie Der Kunste, West Germany; University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan; University of Victoria and Open Space Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia; Simon Fraser University and Metro Media Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia; Latitude 53 Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta.
-1981 -Visiting Filmmaker, National Film Theatre, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
-1980 -Solo Drawing Exhibition, YYZ Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
-1979 -Film Screening, Funnel Film Theatre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
-1979 -First Prize, Experimental Category for film "Fluster", Toronto Super-8 Film Festival, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Films and Videotapes:
-2015- "Phantom City", HD digital file
-2014- "Circle Game", HD digital file
-2012-"Sorceress", 35mm, colour, sound
-2011-"Tower Babel (sketch)", dvd loop projection
-2010-"Amoeba", HDcam
-2010-"Tara’s Dream", HDcam
-2009-"Inner View", 35mm, colour, sound
-2009-"Towers Rising", dvd loop projection
-2008-"Labyrinth", 35mm, colour, sound
-2007-"Death Is In Trouble Now; The Sculptures of Mark Adair", Beta Sp, colour, sound
-2007-"Of Lines and Men; The Animation of Jonathan Amitay", Beta Sp, colour, sound
-2004 -"The Skateboarder", Beta Sp, colour, sound
-2004 -"Man Versus Geometry", Beta Sp, colour, sound
-2003 -"Dancing Street", Beta Sp, colour, sound
-2002 -"Jonathan Amitay: A Portrait", Beta Sp, colour, sound
-2001 -"Ralph:Coffee, Jazz and Poetry; The Poetry of Ralph Alfonso", Beta Sp, colour, sound
-2001 -"Crawling Around In A Fountain", Beta Sp, colour, sound
-2000 -"This is My Corner of the World", Beta Sp, colour, sound
-2000 -"Can You Pretend?", Beta Sp, colour, sound
-1999 -"The Goatee Club", Beta Sp, colour, sound
-1997 -"Venus In Violets", Beta Sp, colour, sound
-1996 -"Animal Tales", T.V. Series, Beta Sp, colour, sound
-1994 -"Animation For Kids", Beta Sp, colour, sound
-1990 -"The Flipbook Movie", 16mm, colour, sound
-1990 -"O.K. But I've Got To Get To Work...", 16mm, colour, sound
-1986 -"Four Short Animated Films", 16mm, colour, sound
-1982 -"Sign Language", 16mm, colour, sound
-1981 -"Shadowplay", 16mm, colour, sound
-1980 -"Ruse", 16mm, colour, sound
-1980 -"A Sense of Spatial Organization", 16mm, colour, sound
-1978 -"Fluster", 16mm, colour, sound
-1976 -"Wedding Before Me", 16mm, colour, sound
Bookworks:
-2012 -"Morphing City Hall", a flipbook
-1995 -"The Innocent Bystander"
-1995 -"Fly In Your Eye"
-1995 -"Amber's Night Out"
-1995 -"Puff Of Smoke"
-1993 -"Out of This World", a flipbook
-1993 -"The Magic Wand", a flipbook
-1991 -"Flipbook Animation and Other Ways To Make Cartoons Move", published by Kids Can Press (Canada)/Addison Wesley Publishing Company (U.S.A.)
-1991 -"Skateboarding", a flipbook
-1991 -"Slap Shot!", a flipbook
-1988/1993 -"A Fishy Tale", a flipbook
-1988 -"Play Ball", a flipbook
-1987 -"In The Wink Of An Eye",
-1987/1993 -"The Magician's Hat", a flipbook
-1987 -"Making Faces", a flipbook
Bibliography:
-2010 -Feature article on film “Labyrinth�, Animation Reporter Magazine (April), Mumbai, India
Curator:
-2007 -Curator: Death Is In Trouble Now: The Sculptures Of Mark Adair, Retrospective museum exhibition, Rodman Hall Art Centre, St. Catherines, Ontario
-2006Â -Curator: John Straiton Retrospective, Ottawa International Animation Festival
-2006Â -Curator: Beyond Cartoons, Animating the Personal, Cineworks, Vancouver, B.C.
-2002Â -Curator: Jonathan Amitay Retrospective, Ottawa International Animation Festival
Selected Writings:
-2011 -co-author Curatorial Essay for the Gil Alkabetz retrospective at the Ottawa International Animation Festival
-2007 -Curatorial Essay for the retrospective exhibition "Death Is In Trouble Now: The Sculptures Of Mark Adair" at the Rodman Hall Art Centre, St. Catherines, Ontario
-2005 -Essay "Psychology, Sexuality and Myth: The animated films of John Straiton", Cartoons, the International Journal of Animation, Volume 1, Issue 2, Winter
-Catalogue Essay for the curated exhibition "Of Lines And Men: The Cinema Of Jonathan Amitay", retrospective screening at the 2002 Ottawa International Animation Festival, National Arts Centre, Ottawa, October 2002
-Review of "The Toronto Bank Robbery", a sculpture by Mark Adair, Parachute Magazine #41, December 1985, January, February 1986
Teaching Experience:
-1986 to present-Animation Workshop Instructor, conducted workshops for the National Film Board of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario; Harbourfront Centre; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Atlantic Film Festival, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Mohawk College
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