Jelena Sinik
Animation Director, Artist & Illustrator
IMAGINING TIME
IMAGINING TIME
Imagining Time is a multi award-winning 2D Animation created in 2015 as part of a Master of Animation course.
Adapted from the poem 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T. S. Eliot, this experimental animation is designed in a dual screen format. The film combines themes of the disruption of the everyday; magical realism and surrealism with the themes of isolation, introversion and passivity from the poem.
The film has been screened in over 30 film and animation festivals internationally, winning 4 awards in 2016.
See below for the festival selection list.
Imagining Time is featured in the Special Issue "The Art of Adaptation in Film and Video Games" in Arts 2020, an international peer-reviewed quarterly journal published by MDPI. This academic article is written by Scott Freer, Independent Scholar and Editor of the Journal of the T.S. Eliot Society (UK). The film occurs in Freer's piece 'Remediating Prufrock'.
Link to the publication be found here: https://lnkd.in/gCtC_yK
Watch full video here.
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Full Festival Selection List
Awards
- Official Winner, Best Animation, Willoughby Shorts Film Festival 2016, AUS.
- Official Winner, Best Animation, Freshflix Film Festival 2016, AUS.
- Official Winner, Best Animated Short Film, Toronto Arthouse Film Festival 2016, CA.
- Official Winner, Audience Choice Award, Unlesbarkeit Festival 2016, EUR.
2021-22
- Exhibition Selection, Continuum: Independent Animation from Japan And Australia, Japan Foundation Australia Feb 18 - Jul 2 2022, AUS.
- Exhibition Selection, Australian Cinémathèque, The Magic Arts: Australian Animation from the 1970s to Now, The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art 2021-2022.
2019
- Official Selection, Video+Poetry Project, The Wrong Biennale 2019.
- Official Selection, Artist Animation Screening, The Festival of Drawing at National Art School 2019, AUS.
- Official Selection, Video + Poetry Program, Athens International Video Poetry Festival 2019, GR.
2016-17
- Official Nomination, 2 Minute Short Film Award, Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media 2017, EUR.
- Official Selection, Animated Film, Third Culture Film Festival Hong Kong 2017, CN.
- Official Nomination, Weimar Poetry Film Prize, Backup_festival Germany 2016, EUR.
- Official Finalist, Experimental Film, The Vision Feast 2016, NZ.
- Official Nomination, In Silico Experimental Competition, Message to Man International Film Festival 2016, RU.
- Official Nomination, Best Animated Film & Best Student Film, Wimbledon International Short Fim Festival 2016, UK.
- Official Selection, No/Gloss Film Festival (Leeds Independent Film Festival) 2016, UK.
- Official Selection, Animation Program, Sydney Film Festival 2016, AUS.
- Official Selection, Australian Showcase, Melbourne International Animation Festival 2016, AUS.
- Official Selection, Australian Showcase Tour, Australian International Animation Festival 2016, AUS.
- Official Nomination, Glocal Purpose Competition, Seoul International NewMedia Festival 2016, KR.
- Official Nomination, International Youth Media Festival YOUKI 2016, EUR.
- Official Selection, Animated Film, Bang International Awards Festival 2016, PT.
- Official Selection, Short Film, Wellington Underground Film Festival 2016, NZ.
- Official Selection, International University, ANIMASIVO Contemporary Animation Festival 2016, MX.
- Official Selection, Animated Short Film, Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival Winter 2016, CN.
- Official Selection, Art Film, Altered Esthetics Film Festival 2016, US.
- Official Selection, Animation, Athens Animfest 2016, EUR.
- Official Selection, Short Film, The Moonrise Film Festival 2016, CA.
- Official Selection, Experimental Film, Cinevision Film Festival 2016, US.
- Official Selection, Animation, Regent Park Film Festival 2016, CA.
- Official Selection, Animation, RATMA International Film Festival 2016, UK.
- Official Selection, 2 Minute Film Festival, North Portland Film Festival 2016, US.
- Official Invitation, Poetry Film, Literature Festival Thuringia 2016, EUR.
- Official Selection, Australian Showcase Tour, Newcastle International Animation Festival 2016, AUS.
Affiliated Screenings:
- Official Selection, Touring Program, Poetry + Video Project 2019, AUS.
- Ecstatic Cinematic, Freshflix Emerging Filmmakers' Conference @ Vivid Ideas 2017, AUS.
- Finalist, Best Tertiary Animation Award, SAE Atom Awards 2016, AUS.
- Nomination, Creative Media Social Justice Award, UTS Human Rights Awards 2016, AUS.