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I was a guest author/artist at this year’s 2024 Angoulême Comics Festival in Angoulême, France from Jan. 24 to 28.

Here I am with my graphic novel “Tales from Phantom City” in front of the Canadian Pavilion. Canada was the featured country at the festival this year.

Thanks to the Ontario Arts Council and the Province of Ontario for providing travel funding.

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Check out this podcast discussion I participated in:

https://atbaypress.com/podcast

Carousel Magazine
You can read an interview with me in the current issue of Carousel Magazine here:
http://carouselmagazine.ca/c50-interview-PJ/
It covers my work in flip books, animated films and graphic novels. There's also a link to my 2015 short movie "Phantom City"

Tales from Phantom City graphic novel:

Now available!!! Here's the links:
In stores and from At Bay Press

Available in these Toronto area bookstores:

Book City # 3 and 6
The Beguiling
Paragraph
Type Books
Book City Book Master Scarborough
Another Story

and worldwide from your local bookstore
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On Sat. Aug. 12, 2023,Comic Books Live!!! presented a dramatic reading of my graphic novel "Tales From Phantom City" at the Assembly Theatre, 1479 Queen St. West, Toronto.

Available in stores and from At Bay Press
A cat shaped pendant with magical powers, takes a detective on a precarious journey through a mysterious city. Award winning artist and animator Patrick Jenkins has devised a story as affecting as his complex line art. A mixture of film noir and magic realism that explores surrealism and metaphysics through graphic storytelling. A game where reality is always in question. Smokey halftones and sumptuous linework are binding elements in a sequence of bizarre twists. A layered vortex of visual delights without linear paths or escape.

and at the following film festivals:

May 2023 in competition at Les Sommets du cinema d’animation, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
May 2023 Melbourne International Animation Festival, Melbourne, Australia
May 2023 AFX the Animation Festival of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
September 2022 Anima In Situ, International Animation Film Festival, Morelia, Mexico

On Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022, I was selling my flip books at the Bound Book Arts Fair at the Arts and Letters Club at 14 Elm Street in Toronto.

New Film: Hall of Mirrors (2022)

Here's the trailer:

My film "The Museum of Lost Dreams" (2019) has screened at the following festivals:

October 2019 Tofuzi International Animation Festival, Batumi, Georgia
October  2019 Vortex Experimental Film Festival Ciudad Satélite, Mexico City, Mexico
November 2019 Re-Envisage: Film Festival, Re-Analogue, Aberdeen, Scotland
November 2019 Tindirindis International Animation Film Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania
December 2019 Les Sommets du cinema d’animation. Montreal, Quebec, Canada
January 2020 Hudson Valley Film, Nyack, New York, U.S.A.
February 2020 Winnipeg Cinematheque, Cabin Fever, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
July 2020 Open World Animation Festival, Allentown, USA
September 2020 Over the Real International Video Art Festival, Lucca, Italy
October 2020 Ontario International Film Festival, ONIFF, Toronto, Ontario
May 2021 AFX The Animation Festival of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

My film "Emanations: A Visual Poem" (2017) has screened in the following screenings, festivals and exhibitions:

August 2019: SCREEN: CLIMATES, Screen@SAB Moving Image Exhibition, UMASS, Amherst, U.S.A.
September 2019: The Future is…Ordinary? Shangyuan Art Museum, Beijing, China
October 2019: “Art” Exhibition, Arts Lab Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.A.
October 2019: “Collective (in)Action” Exhibition, Memorial Union Gallery, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, U.S.A.
October 2019: DA International Digital Art Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria
November 2019: Layers, Bridgeport Art Trail, Bridgeport CT, USA.
November 2019: Incantations, C.O.S.M.I.C., 59 Rivoli, Paris, France
June 2020: Experiments In Cinema v15.1, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.
July 2020: Athens Digital Art Festival, Athens, Greece

On Sunday, December 8, 2019, I was at the Bound Books Arts Fair from 11 to 5 p.m. selling my flip books and books. The event was at the Arts and Letters Club, 14 Elm Street, Toronto.

On Saturday, Sept. 14, I was selling my flip books and artist books at Canzine 2019 Toronto, from 1 to 7 p.m. at the Art Gallery of Ontario, 319 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

My film "Sister of the Wind" (2017) will be shown at the Festival Internacional de Cine Verde (International Festival of Green Cinema) in La Guardia, Bolivia, which runs from Oct. 8 to 11, 2019.

From Aug. 19 to 25, 2019 my film "Amoeba" (2010) was shown in Steetlight at Wedge Projects, 1448 West Howard Street, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. The film will play via storefront windows on Howard Street and Rogers Avenue, visible from the street 24/7. My film can be seen on the Rogers Avenue side.

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My film "Emanations: A Visual Poem" was shown in Photophobia: Contemporary Moving Image Festival, at the Art Gallery of Hamilton’s Irving Zucker Sculpture Garden, Hamilton, Canada in Program 1 on August 8, 2019 from 8:30 – 11:00 pm.

Here's the trailer:

On Sunday, July 7, 2019, I was at the Hamilton Zineposium at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, selling my flip books and books. Here's one of the flip books I was selling called "Morphing City Hall". Here's the link: https://vimeo.com/46144048

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I have an Instagram Account where I will be showing my drawings:

https://www.instagram.com/patrick_jenkins_artist/

Many thanks to flutist Ron Korb for showing my film "Sister of the Wind" during his performance at the opening program for the exhibition Being Japanese Canadian, Reflections on a Broken World at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto last night. Ron did a live performance of the musical score he composed for the film. The film includes sound design by Steve Munro and was made with funding by the Toronto Arts Council.

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My animated film "Emanations: A Visual Poem" (2017) screened on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. at the Particle + Wave Media Arts Festival in Calgary, Alberta. The film has music by Paul Intson, and was made with funding from the Ontario Arts Council. Thanks to Winnipeg Film Group Distribution.

New Film: The Museum of Lost Dreams (2019)

Here's the trailer:

On Sunday, December 9, 2018, I was at the Bound Books Arts Fair from 11 to 5 p.m. selling my flip books and books. The event was at the Arts and Letters Club, 14 Elm Street, Toronto.  Thanks to everyone who dropped by my booth and bought some of my books! It was a good show!

"Sister of the Wind" at Animateka in Ljubljana, Slovenia

My recent film "Sister of the Wind" will be shown at the 15th Animateka International Animation Festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia in December. Thanks to the Toronto Arts Council for funding this film. It was made in collaboration with flutist Ron Korb, who composed and performed the musical score and calligraphy by Rita Ip, with sound design by Steve Munro, and production assistance by Jade Yeh.

My short abstract animated film "Circle Game" (2014) is available online on Vucavu. Music by Paul Intson. https://vucavu.com/en/winnipeg-film-group/2014/circle-game#overview

"Sister of the Wind" in Madrid, Spain

I am pleased to have my recent film "Sister of the Wind" screen at ANIMARIO, International Animated Film Festival of Madrid, Spain in Short & Sweet by Animac series on Sept. 22 and 23, 2018. The film was made in collaboration with Grammy nominated flutist Ron Korb who composed the score, visual artist Rita Ip who performed calligraphy for the film, with sound effects by Steve Munro and production assistance by Jade Yeh. Here's the trailer for the film: https://vimeo.com/252536151

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A big thanks to the Toronto Japanese Film Festival 2018 for screening my film "Sister of the Wind" in their latest edition. The event took place at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre in Toronto. The musical score for the film was written and performed by Ron Korb, with calligraphy by Rita Ip, production assistance by Jade Yeh and sound effects by Steve Munro. Special thanks to the Toronto Arts Council for funding the film. I really appreciate it.
Here's the link to the trailer for the film: https://vimeo.com/252536151

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"Sister of the Wind" in Portugal!

Great news! My film "Sister of the Wind" is an Official Selection in the Short Films International Competition at CineEco 2018 - 24th Serra da Estrela International Environmental Film Festival in Seia, Portugal. The festival runs from the 13th to the 20th of October. It's an honour to have Sister in this ecological festival as it is about nature and Asian culture. The film was made in collaboration with flutist Ron Korb, who composed and performed the musical score and calligraphy by Rita Ip, with sound design by Steve Munro, and production assistance by Jade Yeh. I'm really pleased!
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My film, "Emanations: A Visual Poem", won the Best Animation Award at the 2018 West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival! I'm very pleased. Thanks to Steph Berrington at Winnipeg Film Group Distribution for entering the film in the festival. Thanks as well to Paul Intson who composed and performed the musical score for the film. Thanks also to the Ontario Arts Council for funding the film.

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New film "Sister of the Wind" (2017)

An animated film about the relationship between the wind and the flute, and Asian culture, made in collaboration with Grammy nominated flutist Ron Korb.

Music composed by Ron Korb

Calligraphy by Rita Ip

Sound Design by Steve Munro

Production Assistance: Jade Yeh

"Sister of the Wind" screenings:

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New bookwork:

The Book of Dreams

My new book, "The Book of Dreams" (2018) collects 291 drawings from my sketchbooks.

Perfect bound, 150 pages, colour cover 6" X 9", black and white interior drawings.

The book is made up of daily sketchbook drawings with a written introduction.

You can order a copy by contacting me at:

"The Book of Dreams" is also available online on Amazon.ca:
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0921374186

I am pleased to announce that my film "Phantom City" (2015) is now being distributed by Winnipeg Film Group Distribution. https://www.winnipegfilmgroup.com/films/phantom-city/
You can also watch it on VUCACU, an online platform for independent filmmaking: https://vucavu.com/en/winnipeg-film-group/2015/phantom-city

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On Saturday Dec. 2nd, 2017 , I was selling my flip books and chap books at the Bound Book Arts Fair at the Arts and Letters Club- Great Hall, 14 Elm Street, Toronto

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I'm pleased to announce that my recent film "Emanations:  A Visual Poem" is now being distributed by Winnipeg Film Group Distribution. https://www.winnipegfilmgroup.com/films/emanations-a-visual-poem/

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New Film: Sister of the Wind

An animated film about the relationship between the wind and the flute, and Asian culture, made in collaboration with Grammy nominated flutist Ron Korb.

Details to come!

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My film "Inner View" (2009), a homage to the art of Kazuo Nakamura, can now be viewed online at https://vucavu.com/en/canadian-filmmakers-distribution-centre/2009/inner-view

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Emanations: A Visual Poem

My 2017 film "Emanations: A Visual Poem" will be or has been at the following festivals:

Phantom City in Norway!

My 2015 film "Phantom City" was shown in competition at the Reanima Festival in Bergen, Norway. The festival runs Sept. 29 to Oct. 1, 2017. http://www.reanimafestival.com/index.php/festival-program

and in

April 2018 at Animaphix OFF, Palermo, Italy

May 2018, Best Picture Nominee, L.A. Neo Noir Film Festival, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

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Phantom City at the Christie Pits Film Festival

Here's the trailer for the film:

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My film "Emanations: A Visual Poem" (2017) had its world premiere in the screening #Postreality at the 13th Athens Digital Arts-ADAF 2017 Festival from May 18 to 21, 2017 in Athens, Greece. Thanks to the Paul Intson who composed the music and did the sound mix and to the Ontario Arts Council for funding the film. http://www.thephotophore.com/postreality-the-photophore-screening/

"Emanations" screened at the Melbourne International Animation Festival in Melbourne, Australia from June 18 to 25, 2017.

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New Film:

Emanations: A Visual Poem (2017)

I'm pleased to announce that I recently completed a new film, "Emanations: A Visual Poem". It's a short abstract movie about the relentless cycle of life, including growth and decay, wonder and awe.

Music by Paul Intson

Funded by the Ontario Arts Council

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I sold my flip books and chap books at the 2016 Ontario College of Art and Design University Book Arts Fair, 100 McCaul Street, Toronto, on Saturday, December 10 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Toronto Premiere of Phantom City!

My latest film "Phantom City" had its Toronto premiere in the screening "Time Form Scene" on October 13 at Cinecycle in Toronto.

It was also shown at the Animated Dreams Festival in Tallinn, Estonia from Nov. 16 to 20, 2016; the Stoptrik International Film Festival in Maribor, Slovenia which ran October 27 to 30th, 2016 and the Reggio Film Festival in Italy;  the 2016 Anima Mundi International Animation Festival in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil in Oct. and Nov. 2016; the Anim’est International Animation Festival, Bucharest, Romania in October 2016, the London International Animation Festival, England in December.

It was also screened at the XI International Competition for Animated Short Film of ANIMASIVO, Mexico City Contemporary Animation Festival; the 2016 Canterbury Anifest, England; the 2016 Ottawa International Animation Festival in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; andthe Lowlands Festival in the Netherlands.

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I'm in a documentary made by Cecilia Traslaviña from Bogota, Colombia called Pertpetuum Mobile Chapter 2. "Creative processes". Here is the link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6znY_TCRB4. My interview is at the 24:25 minute mark. Thanks to Cecilia for including me in this movie.

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Recently I was interviewed by Pichu Tomsic for La Quirino, a new online Spanish language animation magazine from Argentina. Thanks to Pichu Tomsic for interviewing me and reproducing stills from my recent film “Phantom City” to illustrate the article.

In 2011, I was a special guest artist, at Anima VI, the Córdoba International Animation Festival, in Córdoba, Argentina.

Here’s the link: https://issuu.com/laquirino/docs/la_quirino_n1/1?e=25039111/35864624

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My latest film "Phantom City" is in two more festivals:

The 2016 Sydney International Film Festival in Sydney, Australia

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the 2016 New Zealand International Film Festival, Auckland, New Zealand

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I'm pleased to announce that Corrie Francis Parks book "Fluid Frames, Experimental Animation with Sand, Clay, Paint and Pixels" is now out. I was interviewed for the book and my work in animation is featured (along with many other independent/experimental animators). Thanks to Corrie for including my work in this book. You can order it with discount code FLR40 on fluidframes.net

On Saturday, April 30, 2016, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. I was at the Wayzgoose Book Arts Fair in Grimsby, Ontario.  This year I have 3 classic flip books back in print: "Play Ball!" (about baseball), "Out of this World" (about an alien) and "A Fishy Tale" along with a perfect bound edition of my recent flip book "Morphing City Hall" and "Slap Shot!" and "In the Wink of an Eye"!

My film "Phantom City" is screening at the following festivals:

The Australian International Animation Festival in Wagga Wagga, Australia

Sunday, May 15, 2016

Here's the catalogue description: "A hand-painted opus laced with noir. A woman with a mysterious suitcase and a man in pursuit - just one of the tales in the Phantom City".

Golden Kuker-Sofia International Animation Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria
May 9 to 15, 2016

Chilemonos Festival Internacional de Animacion, Santiago, Chile
May 10 to 15, 2016

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The Imagine Film Festival, Amsterdam, Holland

April 14 to 24, 2016

Synopsis of "Phantom City" from the Imagine Film Festival website (translated from Dutch):

"In a big city a young woman sees a movie called “Naked Angels”. What appears to be a film noir is actually a passage through the fourth wall. This beautiful game with reality does what only animation can. A nice jazzy score is a binding element in a sequence of bizarre twists."

Here's the trailer for the film:

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My film "Circle Game" is in the art exhibition "Abstractionists" at Harbourfront Centre

Exhibition runs from January 23 to June 19, 2016

Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West, Toronto, Ontario, M5J 2G8

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Animation Noir, films by Patrick Jenkins, Western Canada Tour 2015

I toured Western Canada, showing my films and conducting workshops in animation.

Thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts, Media Arts Section, for travel funding.

Here's some posters and photographs from the trip:

Below: Photographs of my presentation of my paint on glass animation

at Flux Gallery at Media Net, Victoria, B. C. on Dec. 1, 2015

New Movie:

"Phantom City"

Here's the trailer:

Phantom City Trailer from Patrick Jenkins on Vimeo.

(see below) and the 2016 Melbourne International Animation Festival in Melbourne, Australia

"Circle Game"

Festival News!

My new film "Circle Game" is "A magical dance of circles which becomes an abstract movie through superimposing two drafting templates, resulting in chance animation."

"Circle Game" has shown at the following festivals:

July/August 2015 Le Festival Heure d’Été à Bruxelles, Belgium
June 2015 Melbourne International Animation Festival, Melbourne, Australia
June 2015 Sydney Film Festival, Sydney, Australia
May 2015, Australian International Animation Festival, Wagga Wagga

Feb 2015 at the Animex International Festival of Animation and Computer Games in England.

Dec. 2014Sommets du cinema d’animation, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Oct. 2014in competition at the 2014 London International Animation Festival, England

Oct. 2014 Antimatter (Media Art) Festival in Victoria, Canada

July 2014 Toronto Animated Image Society Showcase on July 2014.

I was at the 2014 and 2015 editions of the Wayzgoose Book Arts Fair at the Grimsby Public Art Gallery selling my flip books, chap books and dvds.

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Stills from my films:

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Sat. Nov. 30, 2013 I was at the OCAD Book Arts Fair, 100 McCaul Street with my chapbooks, dvds for sale!

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My "Labyrinth" was screened at the 2013 London International Animation Festival on October 26 at the Horse Hospital in London, England in the Canadian Indie Showcase.

LIAF describes my filmas "A surrealist, film-noir paint-on-glass epic following a detective’s strange encounters with mysterious phenomena from the dark-side."

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I had a great day at Toronto's Word On The Street yesterday, Sunday, September 22, 2013, selling my dvds, flip books and chap books. Our booth title "Cemetery Photographs & Flip Books" got us a mention in the Toronto Star Newspaper. The name definitely drew people to our booth.

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My 2008 film "Labyrinth" was screened in Lima, Peru as part of a selection of short films by Toronto Animated Image Society members at the Filmo Corto Festival 2013 (Aug 6 - 8). Thanks to Madi Piller at TAIS for including my film in the screening.

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Melbourne International Animation Festival 2013

I was honoured to be a Special Guest Filmmaker at the Melbourne International Animation Festival 2013 in Melbourne, Australia from June 20th to June 30th, 2013. I had a great time. It was a wonderful festival. Many thanks to Festival Director Malcolm Turner and Festival Manager Helen Gibbins for all their hospitality.

You can read about my adventures in Melbourne on my blog.

During MIAF, I showed and talked about 6 of my recent paint on glass animated films in the series Animation 101, Meet the Filmmaker, to an appreciative audience:

I helped Festival Director Malcolm Turner curate and introduce a series of 3 Programs of Canadian Independent Animation. My films"Sorceress", "Amoeba" and "Labyrinth" were shown in these Programs. I was honoured that my film "Labyrinth" was also shown in the MIAF Gala Opening Screening.

As if that wasn't enough, I also ran a Flip Book Movie making workshop with 20 excellent participants.

I was also on the jury that selected the Best Australian Film of the Festival. I also visited the Animation Department in the School of Film and Television at the Victorian College of the Arts, at the University of Melbourne where I met with the Lecturer Paul Fletcher and Lecturer  Robert Stephenson and chatted with their students about their work in progress.

All in all a great trip!

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TAIS Independent Animation SHOWCASE 2013

My 10 second animated piece "Out Of This World" was shown in the UFO Anijam at the TAIS Showcase on Sat. May 11 at Cinecycle in Toronto. Here it is:

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Wayzgoose

On Saturday April 27, 2013, I was at the Wayzgoose Book Arts Festival at the Grimsby Public Library and Art Gallery, selling my dvds, chapbooks and flip books. Sold 37 flip books and 3 chap books. Thanks everyone!

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Metamorphosis Test (Silent)

April 9, 2013: I evolve my paint on glass animation through a series of tests or experiments. Here's a very short silent clip I did last week of the metamorphosis of a man into a bird. It's done with a mixture of gouache, glycerin, and water on a white linoleum surface, adding and removing paint between the frames. Sometimes these experiments evolve into longer films.

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Sorceress at LAMPS Film Festival

My latest film "Sorceress" was shown at the LAMPS Film Festival on April 10th and 11th in Lethbridge, Alberta.

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Sorceress at HIFF 2013

My film "Sorceress" was shown at the Halifax Independent Film Festival in the "New Works from the Toronto Animated Image Society" program on Wednesday April 10, 2013 at the Bus Stop Theatre in Halifax, Nova Scotia

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March 2013

I was recently awarded a Research/Creation Grant from the Media Arts Section of the Canada Council for the Arts to develop a new movie project.

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Invitation from the Melbourne International Animation Festival

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A print interview I did about my paint on glass animation is now up at: http://smudgeanimation.blogspot.com/2013/02/patrickjenkins.html

Thanks to Charles Wilson at Smudge Animation for the great interview.

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A half-hour video interview I did about my work is now up at the Canadian Animation Blog.

Thanks to Grayden Laing at Canadian Animation Blog.

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My latest film "Sorceress" has been chosen to be shown in competition at the following two festivals in February 2013:

Animac Animation Festival in Lleida, Spain

Animacam Animation Festival, Ourense, Spain

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On Sat. December 15th, I was at the Bazaar of the Bizarre: Frost Bite!, 918 Bathurst Street, Toronto, selling my dvds, books and flipbooks.

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On Sat. December 1st, I participated in the OCAD Book Arts Fair in Toronto selling my dvds, books and flipbooks.

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My latest film Sorceress was shown at two more festivals:

10th ANILOGUE International Animation Festival in Budapest, Hungary and Vienna, Austria from Nov 16 - Nov 25, 2012

and the Istanbul Animation Festival in Turkey.

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Now available for order DVD: "Animation Noir: Films By Patrick Jenkins"

Visit my store.

I'm pleased to announce the release of my dvd "Animation Noir: Films By Patrick Jenkins".

It includes all my recent paint on glass animated films: Sorceress (2012), Labyrinth (2008), Amoeba (2012), Inner View (2009), Towers Rising (2009) and Tara's Dream (2010). 23 minutes in length.

The cost is $25 per copy (shipping included) for Canada and the U.S.A. (NTSC)

and $30 per copy (shipping included) for overseas (PAL version available on request).

You can order one by emailing me at pjenkins@interlog.com.

It's the first dvd in a series of 5 dvds of my animation and documentary film work that I'll be releasing in the coming months.

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My blog is here.

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London International Animation Festival 2012

I attended the 2012 London International Animation Festival in England as a guest filmmaker, from Oct. 25 to Nov. 4, 2012.

My film "Sorceress" had it's European premiere at the festival in International Programme 3, on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012 at 4 p.m.

While I was there I conducted 4 flip books workshops, judged the Abstract Film category, introduced my film "Sorceress", judged the Flipbook Challenge competition and spoke on a panel called on the Animated Documentary. It was great to be so engaged during the festival. I really like doing presentations.

Above: L to R: Tony Comley (British Animator). Tony and I judged the Abstract Film Category of LIAF. Center is a photo taken during the Spooky Flip Book Workshop I conducted on Halloween Night at the Barbican. On the left is Urte Budinate (Lithuanian Animator) and me conducting another Flip Book Workshop for the Flipbook Challenge Competition.

Final meal at the end of LIAF. Left to Right: Nag Vladermersky, Malcolm Turner, Koji Yamamura (renown Japanese Animator), Patrick Jenkins, Anna Gregory and Mandy Smith (LIAF staff members)

In the LIAF 2012 Catalogue, Festival Director Nag Vladermersky wrote:

"I've always liked Patrick Jenkins' films. There's a kind of very hands-on honesty to the visuality of much of his work. His films transmit that sense of directness and it is easy to see the marks left by his brushes. His latest film, "Sorceress", sees him working in the paint-on-glass technique that he has previously employed so lavishly in films such as "Inner View" (2009) and "Labyrinth" (2008). Another very big tick in Jenkins' love of telling a good story and his ability to pull it off with such style and clarity."

Thanks again to the LIAF staff. It was a blast!

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"Sorceress" has been selected has been selected to be shown in the Canadian panorama section of the Montreal based animation festival, LES SOMMETS DU CINEMA D'ANIMATION which runs from November 28 to December 2, 2012.

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On Tuesday Oct. 2, 2012 I did a presentation at the TAIS Incubator (Toronto Animated Image Society)

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I'm pleased to announce that I'm going to attend the 2012 London International Animation Festival in England where my film "Sorceress" will have it's European premiere. The Festival runs from Oct. 25 to Nov. 4. In addition to the premiere, I will be conducting an animation workshop and speaking on a panel about animated documentaries.

It's great to be invited to the Festival and I have to say a big thank you to LIAF and its sister festival the Melbourne International Animation Festival for supporting and screening my films over the years.

"Sorceress" is a 9 minute, paint on glass animated, mythological adventure film. It took over 12 months to animate and I'm really pleased with how it turned out.

A big thanks must go to the Canada Council for the Arts, Media Arts Section for funding the film. You can see the trailer for "Sorceress" here. Prior to this "Sorceress" has screened at the 2012 Be Film Underground Film Festival in New York City, the 2012 Toronto Animated Image Society Showcase in Toronto, and the 2012 Melbourne International Animation Festival.

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New Flip Book: Morphing City Hall

I created a new flip book as part of Flip-Toronto. Eight artists chose sites around Toronto and made flip books about them. The flip books were shown on the TTC Subway Video Screens from August 4 to 19, 2012. I chose Toronto City Hall. Click play on the image above to see the book come to life.

Wed. Aug. 8, 2012: I'm pleased to announce that my "Morphing City Hall" flip book has been acquired by Special Collections at the Toronto Reference Library. They have an extensive collection of artists' books.

Thurs. Aug. 9, 2012: This morning I was delighted to discover that there's an article on Flip-Toronto and my book "Morphing City Hall" in the The Grid Newspaper (Aug. 9 to 15). Here's the online version.

There's an article on the Flip-Toronto project in the July 30, 2012 edition of the Toronto Star Newspaper. See it here.

I've started a blog at Wordpress

Clips From Six of my animated films are now up on Vimeo. Check them out!

I'm now in Wikipedia

Sorceress at the Festivals:

My new film Sorceress has been selected for competition at:

and the London International Animation Festival 2012 in the U.K.

October 25- November 4, 2012

and was in competition at:

The Melbourne International Animation Festival in Melbourne, Australia

June 17-24, 2012

TAIS Showcase, Toronto, Canada on June 1, 2012

BE FILM, the Underground Film Festival in New York City

April 24-28, 2012

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Two new book works:

On Sat. April 28, 2012 I attended the Wayzgoose Book Arts Fair at the Grimsby Public Art Gallery launching two new books made entirely of drawings.

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New Film Completed:

February 2012: I've just finished my new film Sorceress. It's a nine minute, mythological adventure story created with paint on glass animation.

Synopsis: Two sisters head to the big city to see a concert. When the younger sister is kidnapped, the older sister embarks on a perilous journey to rescue her sibling from a wicked Sorceress.

Music by Paul Intson and Sound Effects by Urban Post Production.

Thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts for funding this film.

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My film Tara's Dream has been selected for the Super-Short Competition in Festival MONSTRA, an animation festival in Lisboa Portugal, which runs from March 19 to 25, 2012.

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In Dec. 2011 I had a short animated loop called Babel Tower (sketch) in TPW Gallery's Photorama exhibition and fundraising show.

http://gallerytpw.ca/photorama2011/

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My 2010 short animated film "Tara's Dream" was shown at Les Sommets du cinema d'animation de Montreal, which will take place December 1st to 4th, 2011

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ANIMA VI Cordoba International Animation Festival of Cordoba, Argentina

After the festival I went to Buenos Aires for 4 days after the Festival to see that wonderful city. Thanks to Hugo Ares and Madi Piller and all the staff at ANIMA VI for arranging this trip. Photos courtesy of Richard Reeves.

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My film "Inner View" was shown at the London International Animation Festival 2011 in August in London, England

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"Tara's Dream" was shown at the TAIS Showcase 2011 on June 23 in Toronto

I was a guest on Framelines, an online movie program at www.ckln.fm, on Thursday, June 16 to discuss the TAIS Showcase 2011 and my film Tara's Dream.

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I was interviewed for the article "So You Want To Be An Animator" in the print version of Toronto's NOW Magazine (May 26- June 1, 2011 Issue, Page 40). It's about careers in animation. See the following:

"As a kid, I drew hockey games, airplanes, PT boats, obsessively drawing the same things over and over. I do animation using a technique called paint-on-glass, which is making a painting, taking a shot of it with a digital still camera and then changing the picture a little bit and doing this process again and again. I make up the story and everything; I'm a one-person operation.

When you finish an animated film - at least with drawing - you have all this artwork left over, and I wondered what to do with it. I thought about flip books and put together my own flip book publishing business. Over the years, I sold about 90,000 of them!

You have to have a lot of patience to be an animator. Every technique is laborious. It's also physically challenging. A lot of times you're standing or sitting in the same position, so your neck and shoulders seize."

PATRICK JENKINS independent animator and filmmaker. He studied art at York University. His most recent film is Labyrinth.

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Inner View was in competition at the Melbourne International Animation Festival in Melbourne, Australia in June 2011and shown at: At The Factory- Hamilton Media Arts Centre in the Screening Eleven In Motion on May 13, 2011

My film "Amoeba" was shown at thePlastic Paper: Winnipeg's Festival of Animated, Illustrated + Puppet Filmfrom May 4 to 7, 2011

"Tara's Dream" (2010) was shown at BEFILM, the Underground Film Festival in New York City in May 2011

"Inner View" was shown at the MONSTRA - Lisbon Animation Film Festival in March 2011

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My film "Amoeba" was exhibited at Gallery TPW's Photorama exhibition and fundraising sale from November 26 to December 4, 2010 along with a giclee print from "Towers Rising".

Gallery TPW is located at 56 Ossington Avenue Toronto ON M6J 2Y7

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"Inner View" was shown in the Canadian Showcase screening at the Ottawa 2010 International Animation Festival from October 20-24, 2010.

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"Amoeba" was shown at THE RHINO ANIMATED FILM FESTduring NUIT BLANCHE

October 2, 7 PM to October 3, 7 AM

1249 QUEEN ST. WEST, Toronto

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My film Inner View was shown in the year long visual art exhibition "Painter Eleven In Motion" at Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 72 Queen Street, Civic Centre, Oshawa, Ontario. Animated films from the Toronto Animated Image Society's Eleven in Motion project were shown along with original paintings by the Painters Eleven.

The exhibition ran from September 25, 2010 to September 18, 2011

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Tara's Dream wins two awards at the Toronto Urban Film Festival!

My film "Tara's Dream" (2010) won two prizes at the Toronto Urban Film Festival's awards ceremony on Sunday, September 19, 2010. It won the Second Place Prize (selected by filmmaker Deepa Mehta) and the Best Animation By A Local Artist Prize (selected by filmmaker/curator Chris Gehman). You can watch the film online at: http://www.torontourbanfilmfestival.com/films/taras-dream

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Exhibition of "Movies and Stills" by Patrick Jenkins

Installation Photos

From Aug. 11 to 22, 2010 I exhibited movies and stills at Loop Gallery in Toronto in the group exhibition "Faithful and Faithless Messengers". I showed my films "Labyrinth" and "Towers Rising" along with gicleeprints of stills from these movies.

1273 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON, M6J 1X8, 416-516-2581, loopgallery@ primus.ca

http://www.loopgallery.ca

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Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre showed my film Labyrinth as part of the program entitled Square Pegs III in Kingston, Ontario on August 18^th, 2010

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New Film Amoeba wins award!

My new film "Amoeba" (2010, 2.5 minutes), an abstract, paint on glass animated film based on music by John Zorn's Masada won the gold prize, best in the show at the :

TAIS ANIMATION SHOWCASE

on THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 2010

at the TRANZAC CLUB, Toronto, Canada

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-Here's a feature article on my film "Labyrinth" appears in the current issue of Animation Reporter Magazine (April 2010). The two page article outlines the making of the movie, illustrated with colour stills from the film.

Animation Reporter is an English language animation trade magazine, based in Mumbai, India.

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Labyrinth Wins Prize!!!

-My film Labyrinth won Third Place in the Animation Category at BEFILM, the Underground Film Festival in New York City on Saturday, May 1, 2010.

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-My animated film "Inner View", based on the art of Kazuo Nakamura, was selected for the Films for Children Competition program of 20th World Festival of Animated Film- Animafest Zagreb. The festival was held in Zagreb, Croatia, from 1-6 June 2010.

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-Labyrinth was shown at Artspace Gallery in Peterborough, Ontario as a continuous loop projection in the Project Room from March 12 to April 24, 2010.

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-My film Labyrinth has been chosen for inclusion in the compilation dvd "The Best of the London International Animation Festival 2009". The dvd will include 15 films selected from 360 films screened at the festival this year.

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-My new loop animation piece "Towers Rising" was shown in PHOTORAMA 2009 AT GALLERY TPW

from November 27 to December 5, 2009

56 Ossington Avenue Toronto ON M6J 2Y7 Canada

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-My 15 second animation about the myth of a fox that turns into an alluring woman, opens the live action feature film "The Ache", directed by Keith Lock. The script was written by Keith Lock and Louise Bak. It premiered at the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival on Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009. Go to http://www.vimeo.com/5917526 and click on 3. Final Animation V3 -

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New Film

Two events related to my new film "Inner View"

On Tuesday, November 17, 2009 I was part of an Artist Talk/panel discussion at the NFB Mediatheque, in Toronto; as part of the "Eleven In Motion" project. "Inner View" was screened along with other films in the "Eleven In Motion" project. (See below)

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On November 18, 2009 from 6 to 9 p.m., the "Eleven in Motion" Project opened at the Christopher Cutts Gallery, 21 Morrow Avenue, Toronto; along with original paintings from the Painters Eleven and everyone is welcome to attend. The films were shown continuously on monitors in the gallery.

Here is a photo of the installation with "Inner View" playing on the television monitor next to a painting by Kazuo Nakamura.

The show ran from November 18 to 25, 2009. Thanks to filmmaker Richard Reeves for the installation photo.

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My new film "Inner View" is a 35mm, two minute, animated homage to the art of Canadian artist Kazuo Nakamura done using the paint on glass animation. I've admired Kazuo Nakamura's art for over 35 years. In this movie I have attempted to recreate Nakamura's work by animating a selection of his paintings and sculptures as if they are being created in front of our eyes, like constantly growing and evolving plants. Nakamura's art has its roots in the visual patterns found in nature. His keen interest in science and mathematics was a way of rediscovering the structure of our world. It has been a joy to make a film honouring his work.The music score was written and performed by Paul Intson who composed the music for my previous films "Labyrinth" and "The Skateboarder", with flute improvisation by Ron Korb.

This film was commissioned by the Toronto Animated Image Society for their "Eleven In Motion: Abstract Expressions in Animation" project, a series of 11 films created by animators based on the art of the Painters Eleven, who were abstract expressionists active in Toronto in the late 50's and 60's. Funding for this project was provided by the Canada Council For The Arts and Petman Foundation.

Death Is In Trouble Now: The Sculptures of Mark Adair

My documentary on Canadian sculptor Mark Adair was shown in an exhibition of his art at the Woodstock Art Gallery from October 10 to November 28, 2009 in Woodstock, Ontario.

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Labyrinth wins award at KAFI 2009!!!

My film " Labyrinth " won 1st place in the KAFI 2009 Independent 6 to 30 Minutes Category at the recent Kalamazoo Animation Festival International.

http://kafi.kvcc.edu/

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An exhibition I curated was shown in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

Death Is In Trouble Now: The Sculpture of Mark Adair

July 8 - September 16, 2007

Rodman Hall Arts Centre

109 St. Paul Crescent

St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2S 1M3

"Death Is In Trouble Now," is an exhibition that has grown out of a video documentary. The documentary, directed and produced by Patrick Jenkins, is a portrait of Canadian artist Mark Adair. An environmentalist, Adair's figurative sculpture, painting and graphic work comment on our contemporary relationship to the natural environment and the stress of urban life. His work explores such diverse subjects such as violence, sexual politics, pollution, spirituality, consumerism and the devastating force of nature. This exhibition and the documentary, which will be featured alongside the exhibition, explore the artwork Adair has created over the past 25 years and traces the themes in his work to his childhood experiences of growing up in the country, his observation during his lifetime of environmental degradation and the social changes he has observed in the world around him.

Mark Adair is a graduate of York University, Toronto (BFA) and the University of Victoria (MFA). He was a founding member of the Torontoniensis collective of artists with whom he has exhibited since the mid 1990s. He has had solo exhibitions at Harbourfront Centre, Toronto; Optica Gallery, Montreal and is represented by Loop Gallery, Toronto.  He has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council and his work is represented in the collection of the Canada Council Art Bank.

About the curator:

Patrick Jenkins is a Toronto-based artist, animator, and film maker. He received his BFA (Honours) and MFA at York University, Toronto. Jenkins has 24 video and film productions to his credit and his recent work includes the documentary Of Lines and Men, The Animation of Jonathan Amitay (2006), Jonathan Amitay: A Portrait (2002) and Ralph: Coffee, Jazz and Poetry; The Poetry of Ralph Alfonso (2001). His recent animated films include The Skateboarder (2005), Man Versus Geometry (2004) and Dancing Street (2003). Patrick is active in the animation, documentary film and visual arts communities as a curator, juror, administrator, exhibitor and critic.  He has received production grants from the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council and he has works in the collections of the Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa; York University, Toronto and Canada House, London, England.

See my Films and Television Workpage for more details

A retrospective gallery show of Mark Adair's artwork, that I curated, was shown at the Rodman Hall Arts Centre in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada fromJuly 8 - September 16, 2007. The opening is on Sunday July 8 at 2:30 p.m.

For more information go to www.brocku.ca/rodmanhall

"The Skateboarder" was shown at the Real 2 Reel Children's Festival in Vancouver Tuesday, February 28, 2006 and is also being screened at Cinematheque Quebecoise in Montreal on March 30, 2006.

It premiered at the 2005 Montreal World Film Festival which ran from August 26th to September 5, 2005 and at the 2005 Ottawa International Animation Festival on Sunday, September 25th, 2005.

This film is about the misadventures of a boy who, despite warning signs goes skateboarding in a construction site. The film was made using 2D computer animation software and has a graphic quality akin to a shadowplay. It is 6 minutes long with a musical score by Paul Intson.

Nov. 3, 2004

Introducing an online Art Gallery of my paintings.

To visit the Art Gallery:Click Here

"Man Versus Geometry" premiered at the Canadian Film Showcase screening at the 2004 Ottawa International Animation Festival which took place Sept. 22 to 26, 2004 in Ottawa, Canada

"Man Versus Geometry" completed Jan. 2004.

In January 2004 I completed my film "Man Versus Geometry", a 2.5 minute stop motion animated film in which a man encounters a treacherous half circle in a battle of wits. Thanks to the Toronto Animated Image Society for use of their animation stand in the production of this film.

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