Deanna Morse

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Deanna Morse
Born (1950-02-26) February 26, 1950 (age 73) [1]
Sioux City, Iowa, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Known for Animation

Deanna Morse is an independent American experimental filmmaker and media artist. [1] [2] [3] Her work is included in collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [4] [5] [6]

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For the period of 2022–2024, she is president of the International Animated Film Association. [7] She has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 2020. [8] [9] [10]

Early life and education

Morse graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in telecommunicative arts and distributed studies in 1972. She received an M.A. in film and teaching at Goddard College, and in 1992 received a Master of Fine Arts (art and technology), with a merit scholarship from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[ citation needed ] In 1995, she was awarded an outstanding alumni award by Iowa State University. [11] [12]

Career

After graduation she became an assistant editor at WGBH-TV in Boston, [13] [14] and also worked as a scriptwriter for the Virginia Department of Education, [13] and on a series about desegregation for Virginia PBS. She was then hired as an artist in residence for the South Carolina Arts Commission, [13] where she taught for four years, and was filmmaker-in-schools in 1975–1976. [14] [15]

She taught at the College of Charleston, at Regis College, and then at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, for thirty-three years, retiring as an Emerita Professor in 2013. [16] During her time at GVSU, she released the retrospective and interactive DVD Move Click Move in 2001 [17] and used the proceeds to fund scholarships. [16] There she also created, together with some of her students, a Flash animation for the international participatory project Flag Metamorphoses [18]

Her film Lost Ground was part of the 1992 SIGGRAPH Art Show. [19] She was chair of the SIGGRAPH 1994 Art and Design Show, [20] and a juror for the art show in 1998. [21] [22]

She has judged festivals and computer graphics competitions including the Hiroshima International Animation Festival [23] in Japan and the Ann Arbor Film Festival. [24]

She has published articles in Animation World Network. [25] [26] [27] [28]

Filmography

She has made several films for Sesame Street , [3] [2] including Dogs (1991), [1] Monkey's T-Shirt (1991), [1] [29] and Night Sounds (1992). [1] [2]

Hyperallergic wrote about her 1989 animated film Plants that "The play of light, color, line, and shape can be mesmerizing ... vegetal patterns move and spin to evoke plants". [30] Plants was also reviewed by the Chicago Reader , which noted that she " ... creates still-life portraits of flowers using rudimentary (but then-sophisticated) computer drawing tools". [31]

YearFilmFormat
2017
Clear, Deep, Quiet
Video installation
2015
Angels in Maui
DVD
2015
Bird Dreams
DVD
2014
Animation Collaboration
DVD
2014
Perch
DVD
2013
Mindful
DVD
2013
Whispers of the Prairie
DVD [29]
2013
This present moment
DVD
2012
Skin
DVD
2012
Kindred
DVD
2012
Skies of Mist
DVD
2011
Wish you were here
DVD
2010
Traces of Light
DVD
2009
Breathing Room
Video installation [1]
2009
Ancient Woodland
DVD
2007
Forced Perspective: Odessa
DVD
2007
Time Flights
Video installation [1]
2007
Postcards from my backyard
DVD [1] [29]
2002
Kitchen Creature Feature
Film [2]
2001
Move Click Move: a DVD Compilation
DVD [2]
2000
A Mother's Advice
Film [2]
1993
Digital Aquarium
Video installation
1992
Lost ground
Computer animation [2]
1992
Sandpaintings
Film
1991
Self Portrait: Artist With Pets
Film
1991
Dogs
Film
1991
Night Sounds: Imagination
Film
1991
From The Sand
Video installation
1990
The A.M. Dream
Computer animation [2]
1990
Monkey's T-Shirt
Film [29]
1989
Plants
Film [30] [31]
1991
Artist In The Schools
Film
1988
Main Street M
Film
1987
The Lumberyard
Film
1985
August Afternoons
Film [1] [2]
1984
Camera People
Film
1982
Hand
Film [1]
1981
Reality Check
Film [2]
1981
Recycle
Film
1981
Help!...I'm Stranded...
Film
1980
Charleston Home Movie
Film [1]
1978
Starcycle
Film [2]
1978
Jimmy Brown The Newsboy
Film
1978
Ranky Tanky
Film
1978
Cats At The Door
Film
1975
The Midnight Dance
Film
1972
Marriages
Film
1972
Dejeunez, Mon Amour
Film

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