Location: Rubenstein Arts Center Film Theater
The Burial of Natty Bumppo
(Fred Burns, 2023, 28 min, USA, English, DCP)
Built from over 28,000 hand-drawn images, The Burial of Natty Bumppo draws on 19th century cultural images of American innocence to reveal their grotesque outcomes: the enslavement of human beings, the genocide that accompanied colonization, and the environmental degradation resulting from industrialization. The film almost never made it to screen – it was rescued, restored, and digitally mastered by filmmaker Casey Herbert in 2019, and finished in 2023.
The Burial of Natty Bumppo has been shown at the Montreal International Animation Film Festival (2023) and the Bucharest International Animation Festival (2023). It won the awards for Best Animated Short at Indie Short Fest in Los Angeles (2024), the California International Film Festival (2024), and at the Paris International Short Awards (April 2024). Most recently if was recognized with the "Outstanding Cultural Contribution in a Short" from the Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & Technology, and "Best Animation Short" from the Vancouver International Shortfest.
Related Exhibit (October 4 - November 18, 2024):
"From Pencils to Pixels: The Evolution of an Animated Film" charts the myriad steps involved in the production of an animated film, using The Burial of Natty Bumppo as its example. Content will be presented on screens, as physical art as produced, storyboards, animatics, pencil tests, 35mm film as shot, scanning technology, and more!
Location: The Gallery at the Rubenstein Arts Center (2nd floor, room #235).
Screen/Society screenings are free and open to the public.
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