GLAS X PORTLAND

We’re excited to announce that GLAS is coming to Portland this May! For this special weekend event we’ll be bringing some of our favorite shorts from our 2019 festival edition, showcasing some special curated programs, coupled with a warm send-off to Sven and Northwest Animation Festival. We can’t wait to share a flavor of the fest with you. Come see some of the most exciting animated shorts being made from around the world May 25th and 26th at the Hollywood Theater. We’re looking forward to hanging out with the Portland animation community. Check out the complete schedule below. If you’re interested in coming to all the events, you can purchase a weekend pass here: GLAS x Portland Weekend PASS

FRIDAY MAY 24TH

7:30pm, 9:30 PM NW Animation Festival Farewell Show! Tickets

NW Animation Fest presents its final show: a collection of the most astonishing short films from the festival’s eight-year span. Celebrate the end of an era at this spectacular one-night-only farewell screening!    

SATURDAY MAY 25TH

3:00 PM Family Animation Tickets A collection of the best international independent animated shorts being made for a family audience. These films are beautiful, fun, imaginative, and an excellent introduction to a completely different perspective on what animated kids films can be.     7:00 PM Best of GLAS I Tickets We are pleased to present two programs showcasing some of the best international animated shorts from the past year that were in competition at the GLAS Animation Festival 2019.  They include award winners, audience favorites, hidden gems, and represent some of the most innovative artists making animated films from all over the world. Whether you’re an animation aficionado or curious about the world of independent animated filmmaking, these two programs are for you. 9:00 PM American Independent Tickets From the beginning, GLAS has always emphasized the importance of independent animation in the United States. For this screening we defined ‘independent’ as work made without the support of commercial funding and outside of educational institutions. Work made in this context always carries an extra edge of innovation and experimentation, made for no other reason than to satiate the creator’s curiosity. This screening highlights films made by the new generation of American independent animators.  

SUNDAY MAY 26TH

3:00 PM Georges Schwizgebel Retrospective Tickets Georges Schwizgebel is one of the most celebrated independent animators of all time. In the decades spanning Schwizgebel’s career, he pioneered original techniques to reweave the formal fabric of animation. His structural animations are composed like complex musical scores with a dizzying Escher-like recursivity. A Schwizgebel film will spin around you and sneak up on you, as your grip on its form gets increasingly shaken. He is truly an unparalleled voice in animation history and his films bring the use of the frame and the cycle to an entirely new conceptual level. 7:00 PM Best of GLAS II Tickets We are pleased to present two programs showcasing some of the best international animated shorts from the past year that were in competition at the GLAS Animation Festival 2019.  They include award winners, audience favorites, hidden gems, and represent some of the most innovative artists making animated films from all over the world. Whether you’re an animation aficionado or curious about the world of independent animated filmmaking, these two programs are for you.   9:00 PM Lost in A Vapor: Recent Psychedelically Nice Animated Films from Japan Tickets Japanese independent animators no longer rely on the reputation of film festivals for wide exposure. Retaining their own unique styles, Japanese directors branch into comics, commercials, music videos and more. In this new era, independent shorts have become the place for artists to create their own unique worlds and nourish them. In this program, Chitose Airport Festival Director Nobuaki Doi provides us with an overview of this new era in Japanese independent shorts.