Deanna Morse
Deanna Morse | |
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| Born | February 26, 1950[1] Sioux City, Iowa, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Animation |
Deanna Morse is an independent American experimental filmmaker and media artist.[1][2][3] Her work is included in collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[4][5][6]
For the period of 2022–2024[update], she is president of the International Animated Film Association.[7] She has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 2020.[8][9][10]
Early life and education
[edit]Morse graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in telecommunicative arts and distributed studies in 1972. She received an M.A. in film and teaching at Goddard College, and in 1992 received a Master of Fine Arts (art and technology), with a merit scholarship from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[citation needed] In 1995, she was awarded an outstanding alumni award by Iowa State University.[11] [12]
Career
[edit]After graduation she became an assistant editor at WGBH-TV in Boston,[13][14] and also worked as a scriptwriter for the Virginia Department of Education,[13] and on a series about desegregation for Virginia PBS. She was then hired as an artist in residence for the South Carolina Arts Commission,[13] where she taught for four years, and was filmmaker-in-schools in 1975–1976.[14][15]
She taught at the College of Charleston, at Regis College, and then at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, for thirty-three years, retiring as an Emerita Professor in 2013.[16] During her time at GVSU, she released the retrospective and interactive DVD Move Click Move in 2001[17] and used the proceeds to fund scholarships.[16] There she also created, together with some of her students, a Flash animation for the international participatory project Flag Metamorphoses[18]
Her film Lost Ground was part of the 1992 SIGGRAPH Art Show.[19] She was chair of the SIGGRAPH 1994 Art and Design Show,[20] and a juror for the art show in 1998.[21][22]
She has judged festivals and computer graphics competitions including the Hiroshima International Animation Festival[23] in Japan and the Ann Arbor Film Festival.[24]
She has published articles in Animation World Network.[25][26][27][28]
Filmography
[edit]She has made several films for Sesame Street,[3][2] including Dogs (1991),[1] Monkey's T-Shirt (1991),[1][29] and Night Sounds (1992).[1][2]
Hyperallergic wrote about her 1989 animated film Plants that "The play of light, color, line, and shape can be mesmerizing ... vegetal patterns move and spin to evoke plants".[30] Plants was also reviewed by the Chicago Reader, which noted that she " ... creates still-life portraits of flowers using rudimentary (but then-sophisticated) computer drawing tools".[31]
| Year | Film | Format |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Clear, Deep, Quiet |
Video installation |
| 2015 | Angels in Maui |
DVD |
| 2015 | Bird Dreams |
DVD |
| 2014 | Animation Collaboration |
DVD |
| 2014 | Perch |
DVD |
| 2013 | Mindful |
DVD |
| 2013 | Whispers of the Prairie |
DVD[29] |
| 2013 | This present moment |
DVD |
| 2012 | Skin |
DVD |
| 2012 | Kindred |
DVD |
| 2012 | Skies of Mist |
DVD |
| 2011 | Wish you were here |
DVD |
| 2010 | Traces of Light |
DVD |
| 2009 | Breathing Room |
Video installation[1] |
| 2009 | Ancient Woodland |
DVD |
| 2007 | Forced Perspective: Odessa |
DVD |
| 2007 | Time Flights |
Video installation[1] |
| 2007 | Postcards from my backyard |
DVD[1][29] |
| 2002 | Kitchen Creature Feature |
Film[2] |
| 2001 | Move Click Move: a DVD Compilation |
DVD[2] |
| 2000 | A Mother's Advice |
Film[2] |
| 1993 | Digital Aquarium |
Video installation |
| 1992 | Lost ground |
Computer animation[2] |
| 1992 | Sandpaintings |
Film |
| 1991 | Self Portrait: Artist With Pets |
Film |
| 1991 | Dogs |
Film |
| 1991 | Night Sounds: Imagination |
Film |
| 1991 | From The Sand |
Video installation |
| 1990 | The A.M. Dream |
Computer animation[2] |
| 1990 | Monkey's T-Shirt |
Film[29] |
| 1989 | Plants |
Film[30][31] |
| 1991 | Artist In The Schools |
Film |
| 1988 | Main Street M |
Film |
| 1987 | The Lumberyard |
Film |
| 1985 | August Afternoons |
Film[1][2] |
| 1984 | Camera People |
Film |
| 1982 | Hand |
Film[1] |
| 1981 | Reality Check |
Film[2] |
| 1981 | Recycle |
Film |
| 1981 | Help!...I'm Stranded... |
Film |
| 1980 | Charleston Home Movie |
Film[1] |
| 1978 | Starcycle |
Film[2] |
| 1978 | Jimmy Brown The Newsboy |
Film |
| 1978 | Ranky Tanky |
Film |
| 1978 | Cats At The Door |
Film |
| 1975 | The Midnight Dance |
Film |
| 1972 | Marriages |
Film |
| 1972 | Dejeunez, Mon Amour |
Film |
Awards
[edit]- 1993 - Named a distinguished professor by the Michigan Association of Governing Boards of State Universities.[32]
- 1995 - Outstanding Alumni Award from Iowa State University[33]
- 2002 - Addy Award for Move Click Move DVD[34]
- 2003 - Omni Award for Move Click Move DVD[35]
- 2005 - Selected as an outstanding woman in the arts by the YWCA[36]
- 2015 - Hyperion Award, 9th Eclipse Awards honoring Michigan's filmmakers and television creators[37]
- Honored in the Plaza of Heroines at Carrie Chapman Catt Hall at Iowa State University.[38]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Bendazzi, Giannalberto (2015). Animation: A World History: Volume III: Contemporary Times. CRC Press. p. 46. ISBN 9781317519881. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Davis, Juliet (Winter 2006). "Reviewed Work: MOVE-CLICK-MOVE by Deanna Morse". Journal of Film and Video. 58 (4). University of Illinois Press on behalf of the University Film & Video Association: 46–48. JSTOR 20688539.
- ^ a b Sullivan, Karen; Schumer, Gary (2013). Ideas for the Animated Short: Finding and Building Stories (2nd, revised ed.). Taylor & Francis. pp. 139–141. ISBN 9781136141973. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
- ^ Morse on cutting edge of filmmaking, Grand Rapids Press, November 9, 2001
- ^ N.Y. Museum Adds Local Film To Collection, Grand Rapids Press, November 2, 1986
- ^ MOVE-CLICK-MOVE by Deanna Morse, Review by Juliet Davis, Journal of Film and Video, Vol. 58, No. 4, winter 2006, University of Illinois Press, pp. 46-48
- ^ ASIFA: Board Members
- ^ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: new members in 2020
- ^ Grand Valley State University: VMA faculty member emerita joins Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, August 5, 2020
- ^ Grand Valley Lanthorn: Professor Emeritus joins the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- ^ Iowa State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Alumni: Citation of Merit
- ^ Iowa State University, Plaza of Heroines: Deanna Morse
- ^ a b c "Filmmaker Head Named for S.C." The Times and Democrat. Orangeburg, South Carolina. 18 November 1974. p. 5B. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
- ^ a b "Super 8 Films Featured". The Greenville News. Greenville, South Carolina. 23 May 1976. p. 16B. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
- ^ Todd, Sharon (6 June 1975). "Artistic Uses Of Film Explored". The Greenville News. Greenville, South Carolina. p. 43. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
- ^ a b "Deanna Morse Says Goodbye". dot[COMM] The Official Blog of Grand Valley State University's School of Communications. 29 April 2013. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
- ^ Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre: DVD Move Click Move
- ^ Flag Metamorphoses, 2005-2014
- ^ SIGGRAPH 1992: Art Show
- ^ SIGGRAPH 1994: Art and Design Show
- ^ SIGGRAPH 1998: Touchware
- ^ SIGGRAPH 1999: technOasis
- ^ Hiroshima International Animation Festival Juror, August 1998
- ^ 41st Ann Arbor Film Festival Juror, March 2003
- ^ Pre-Cinema Toys Inspire Multimedia Artist Toshio Iwai, Animation World Magazine, February 1999
- ^ Secrets from the Selection Committee: Zagreb Animafest 2004, Animation World Network, June 14, 2004
- ^ Love and Peace: Hiroshima International Animation Festival 2006, Animation World Network, September 14, 2006
- ^ Animation at the Ann Arbor Film Fest: Bending Minds and... Uncensored... Since 1963, Animation World Network, April 25, 2007
- ^ a b c d "Let's Watch with the Ann Arbor Film Festival - Deanna Morse". CTN Ann Arbor. 27 March 2019. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
- ^ a b Larkin, Daniel (December 9, 2015). "A Taste of Four Decades on the Fringes of Animation". Hyperallergic. Brooklyn, New York.
- ^ a b Sachs, Ben (5 November 2015). "Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation". Chicago Reader.
- ^ Grand Valley Forum, Volume 17, No. 39, May 1993
- ^ Iowa State University, Citation of Merit, Recipients
- ^ YouTube: Video News Release announcing the Addy award for the animation collection Move Click Move
- ^ Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre: Deanna Morse
- ^ Grand Valley Forum, Volume 30, No. 14, October 2005
- ^ "2015 Hyperion Award". The 9th Eclipse Awards. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
- ^ "Deanna Morse".
Further reading
[edit]- Giannalberto Bendazzi: ANIMATION: A World History, Volume 3, Contemporary Times, 2015. P. 46: Women in the Limelight, Deanna Morse[1]
- Karen Sullivan, Kate Alexander, Aubry Mintz and Ellen Besen: Ideas for the Animated Short: Finding and Building Stories, Focal Press, 2013, pages 139–141[2]
- Juliet Davis: Review of MOVE-CLICK-MOVE by Deanna Morse, Journal of Film and Video, winter 2006.[3]
- Pilling, Jayne, ed: Women and Animation: a Compendium. British Film Institute, 1992. ISBN 0-85170-377-1
- Russett, Robert; Starr, Cecile: Experimental Animation, origins of a new art. Da Capo Press, New York, N.Y., 1988. ISBN 0306803143 (p. 22-23)
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Animations by Deanna Morse on her YouTube channel
- The Film-Makers' Coop - Deanna Morse
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- ^ ANIMATION: A World History, Volume 3 at Google Books
- ^ Karen Sullivan, Kate Alexander, Aubry Mintz, Ellen Besen: Ideas for the Animated Short: Finding and Building Stories, Focal Press, 2013, ISBN 9780240818726
- ^ Journal of Film and Video, Vol. 58, No. 4 (winter 2006), University of Illinois Press, pp. 46-48