This Friday: Vivien Halas speaks about her parents’ groundbreaking work in animation
As part of the National Film School Lecture Series, in association with Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board, Vivien Halas will give an illustrated lecture and presentation on the work of her parents, John Halas and Joy Batchelor, on Friday, October 11th, at 10am in the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Room A019. Admission is free.
There will follow a screening of the short film An Animated Utopia: A Centenary Celebration of John Halas 1912–1995.
Vivien administers the Halas & Batchelor Collection, the archive of what was for over fifty years the largest and most influential animation studio in Western Europe. From small beginnings in 1940, Halas & Batchelor made over two thousand films and earned an international reputation for quality animation, extending the medium to explain complex ideas with clarity and humour.
This NFS Lecture has been organised in association with the 2013 Blackrock Animation Festival.