Konstantin Bronzit

Konstantin Bronzita Russian animator and animation film director

• grotesque and sharp graphic language• funny paradoxes but always quite

sentimental• intellectual jokes• perfect sence of rhytm and timing

Bronzit’s animation:

1965 Born in in Leningrad, USSR

1988 - 1994award-winning caricaturist

1988 first film, Merry-Go-Round or The Round-About (Карусель, Karusel), at an artist-animator at the animated film studio Lennauchfilm (Studio of Popular Science Films), which created educational animations.

USSR

1992V. Mukhina Leningrad Higher Art and Industrial Academy 1994 the “Higher Courses in Scriptwriting and Directing in Moscow” under the tutorship of Fyodor Khitruk

Fyodor Khitruk

‘Bronzit does what Khitruk always did: they both use wit to sketch serious tales of better social existence’

David MacFadyen, University of California, Los Angeles (2005)

‘Switchcraft’(1995)‘Tuk-Tuk’ (1993)

‘Soother’ (1994)1994–1995an animator, scriptwriter and director of the award winning short films ‘Soother,’ ‘Switchcraft’ and ‘Tuk-Tuk’

...meanwhile in Russia

1993-1995a scriptwriter, director and animator at the Moscow Animation Studio “Pilot”, the first independent film studio in the post-Soviet Russia.

‘The Cat and the Fox’(2004)

Later Bronzit’s contribution to The Mount of Gems, a collection of short-length animations after folktales of Russia’s peoples is the largest project in the history of Russian animation.

Alexander Tatarskythe founder of Studio “Pilot”

“Comrades, who are responsible for creating and showing such films!!! Understand that if you feed a child food which need not be chewed and which is too easily digested, his stomach will atrophy! And if you feed him primitive sham-cartoons which require no mental efforts, which revel in their lack of understanding of the true intellectual and emotional capacities of a little person, and lack a clear, identifiable artistic form, another very important organ could atrophy - the head.”

“Making Animation”, Tatarskiy’s 1986 manifesto

‘At the Ends of the Earth’

1998lived and worked in France, where he completed his short film At the Ends of the Earth, which eventually gathering nearly 70 awards at various festivals including The César national film award

Since 1999 has worked at studio ‘Melnitsa’, where he served as art director in the projects Adventures in Emerald City (1999–2000) and Little Longnose (2003).

2004 the director of the animated feature film Alosha.

‘Alyosha’ seriesthe very short timeframe (only a year) forced him to write the script at the same time as the film was being animated.The film was a success in Russia, and spawned another two films by different directors in the same vein.

2007 • the Best Scenario Award at the 12th Open Russian Festival of Animated Film • the 3rd-best rating among the jury • nominated for an Oscar Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 2009

‘Lavatory Lovestory’

‘beautifully observed humour, confidently drawn, subtle and with a sense of timing that is exquisite”

Ian Lumsden at animationblog.org, 2009

‘Lavatory Lovestory’

2003another award-winning animation, 3D+live action ‘The God’ (2003)

The recipe for success is quite simple: if your film (no matter if commercial or pure art) turn out interesting (sorry for the corny word) - it would always be noticed. You don’t have to make your film specifically for the world community. It just does not need it.

Konstantin Bronzit, CG Talk interview 2008

Thank you for your attention!

1. Русская анимация: продолжение следует [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.animator.ru/articles/article.phtml?id=54. [Accessed 23 October 2013].

2. Константин Бронзит: «…Когда авторское становится коммерческим» (2008) http://kinoart.ru/archive/2005/08/n8-article19

3. Константин Бронзит о Шванкмайере, Диснее и отечественной школе анимации (TV interview 01/02/2013) http://hdzona.org/video/disneilend/multiplikator-konstantin-bronzit-o-shvankmaiere-disnee-i-otechestvennoi-shkole-animacii.html

4. Константин Бронзит: «Тема войны для мультипликации очень сложна»Дарико Цулая (08.09.2013) http://www.kinopoisk.ru/interview/2235146/

5. CGTALK interview: Бронзит Константин [ONLINE] http://www.animator.ru/articles/article.phtml?id=1266. Konstantin Bronzit at IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0111588/7. Konstantin Bronzit, Alesha Popovich and Tugarin the Serpent [Alesha Popovich i Tugarin Zmei] (2004)

reviewed by David MacFadyen©2005 http://www.kinokultura.com/reviews/R7-05alesha.html8. “Making Animation”, Tatarskiy’s 1986 manifesto http://niffiwan.livejournal.com/9422.html

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