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Labyrinth Festival News:

My latest film "Labyrinth" was shown at the following festivals:

-In Official Selection at the 18th World Festival of Animated Film Animafest, in Zagreb, Croatia, from May 31st to June 5th, 2008. The film was screened as part of the grand Section.

-In Competition at the Odense International Film Festival in Odense, Denmark in August 2008.

-In July 2008, at the Anima Mundi Animation Festival in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil.

-In August 2008 at the Montreal World Film Festival, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

-In September 2008 at the Ottawa International Animation Festival, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

-In September 2008 at Animadrid, Madrid, Spain

-In October 2008 at the Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

It will be shown at the following festivals:

-In December 2008 at Les Sommets du Cinema D'animation, Montreal, Canada

-In January 2009 at the Goteborg International Film Festival, Goteborg, Sweden

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Recently Completed

Labyrinth

35mm, Colour, Sound, 2008

8 min., 34 sec.

A paint on glass animated film.

Directed and animated by Patrick Jenkins

Synopsis: After being given an enigmatic locket to protect, a detective encounters strange phenomena and beings from the afterlife in this surrealistic film noir story.

Music Composed by Paul Intson

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My two documentaries:

- Death Is In Trouble Now: The Sculptures of Mark Adair

and

- Of Lines and Men: The Animation of Jonathan Amitay

can now be seen on BRAVO! television. Check your local listings for broadcast dates.

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"Death Is In Trouble Now," is an exhibition that has grown out of a video documentary. The documentary, directed and produced by Patrick Jenkins, is a portrait of Canadian artist Mark Adair. An environmentalist, Adair's figurative sculpture, painting and graphic work comment on our contemporary relationship to the natural environment and the stress of urban life. His work explores such diverse subjects such as violence, sexual politics, pollution, spirituality, consumerism and the devastating force of nature. This exhibition and the documentary, which will be featured alongside the exhibition, explore the artwork Adair has created over the past 25 years and traces the themes in his work to his childhood experiences of growing up in the country, his observation during his lifetime of environmental degradation and the social changes he has observed in the world around him.

Mark Adair is a graduate of York University, Toronto (BFA) and the University of Victoria (MFA). He was a founding member of the Torontoniensis collective of artists with whom he has exhibited since the mid 1990s. He has had solo exhibitions at Harbourfront Centre, Toronto; Optica Gallery, Montreal and is represented by Loop Gallery, Toronto. He has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council and his work is represented in the collection of the Canada Council Art Bank.

Patrick Jenkins is a Toronto-based artist, animator, and film maker. He received his BFA (Honours) and MFA at York University, Toronto. Jenkins has 24 video and film productions to his credit and his recent work includes the documentary Of Lines and Men, The Animation of Jonathan Amitay (2006), Jonathan Amitay: A Portrait (2002) and Ralph: Coffee, Jazz and Poetry; The Poetry of Ralph Alfonso (2001). His recent animated films include The Skateboarder (2005), Man Versus Geometry (2004) and Dancing Street (2003). Patrick is active in the animation, documentary film and visual arts communities as a curator, juror, administrator, exhibitor and critic. He has received production grants from the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council and he has works in the collections of the Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa; York University, Toronto and Canada House, London, England.

My film "The Skateboarder" was chosen as a finalist at KAFI, the Kalamazoo Animation Festival International in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The festival took place in May 2007.

Recently I completed 2 documentaries, one on the sculptor Mark Adair and the other on animator Jonathan Amitay.

A retrospective gallery show of Mark Adair's artwork, that I curated, was shown at the Rodman Hall Arts Centre in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada from July 8 - September 16, 2007. The opening is on Sunday July 8 at 2:30 p.m.

For more information go to www.brocku.ca/rodmanhall

My film, "The Skateboarder" was shown at the prestigious Annecy 2006 International Animation Festival in Annecy, France from June 5th to 10th, 2006.

"The Skateboarder" had its Toronto Premiere at the Canadian Filmmakers Festival on Saturday March 25th, 2006 at the Cineplex Odeon Carlton Cinemas.

"The Skateboarder" was shown at the Real 2 Reel Children's Festival in Vancouver Tuesday, February 28, 2006 and is also being screened at Cinematheque Quebecoise in Montreal on March 30, 2006.

It premiered at the 2005 Montreal World Film Festival which ran from August 26th to September 5, 2005 and at the 2005 Ottawa International Animation Festival on Sunday, September 25th, 2005.

This film is about the misadventures of a boy who, despite warning signs goes skateboarding in a construction site. The film was made using 2D computer animation software and has a graphic quality akin to a shadowplay. It is 6 minutes long with a musical score by Paul Intson.

"Man Versus Geometry" premiered at the Canadian Film Showcase screening at the 2004 Ottawa International Animation Festival which took place Sept. 22 to 26, 2004 in Ottawa, Canada

In January 2004 I completed my film "Man Versus Geometry", a 2.5 minute stop motion animated film in which a man encounters a treacherous half circle in a battle of wits. Thanks to the Toronto Animated Image Society for use of their animation stand in the production of this film.