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This year we are celebrating the centenary of John Halas with special screenings and retrospectives.
There is a new documentary in the making to commemorate his contribution to the world of animation An Animated Utopia (Professor Paul Wells, The Animation Academy) that will be premiered at the Barbican on May 30th. ASIFA will be editing a DVD of his favourite short films accompanied by memories of John from ASIFA and H&B veterans (ASIFA, Vivien Halas, Martin Pickles).
19 January 2012 - 6 May 2012
Watch Me Move
The Animation Show from the Barbican is travelling to Taiwan at
The Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei and from
21 June - 16 September 2012
National Science and Technology Museum in Kaohsiun
Animal Farm, 1954/5 is being screened and artwork is on display along with an amazing selection of animation all time greats.
21 March 2012
Centenary screening
Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge - 18:00
A centenary celebration screening of John Halas’s award winning favourite short films introduced by Vivien Halas.
23 - 28 April 2012
68th FIAF congress, Beijing China
Jez Stewart from the BFI National Archive will present a paper on the accession of The Halas & Batchelor archive into Britain's national film collection. Automania 2000 (1963) will also be screened as part of a showcase of British animation.
30 May 2012
John Halas centenary celebration
London: Barbican Cinema 1 - 18:00
We will be screening a new documentary An animated Utopia commemorating the contribution to animation of John Halas by Professor Paul Wells and the Animation Academy. Films, discussions and fun. Veterans of Halas & Batchelor are invited as our guests.
3 May - 12 August 2012
Bauhaus: Art as Life
On at the same time in the Barbican Gallery will be the biggest Bauhaus exhibition in the UK in over 40 years. From expressionist beginnings to a pioneering model uniting art and technology the Bauhaus’ utopian vision sought to change society in the aftermath of the First World War. Bauhaus: Art as Life explores the diverse artistic production that made up its turbulent fourteen-year history and delves into the subjects at the heart of the school: art, culture, life, politics and society, and the changing technology of the age.
The exhibition echoes John Halas’s early experiences at the atelier of Sandor Bortnyik known as the Hungarian Bauhaus and the early animation experiments that John made with Bortnyik and Lazlo Moholy Nagy.
17 - 24 June 2012
MIAF Melbourne
Homage to John Halas, screening of a selection of Halas & Batchelor’s best short films
Music Man, 1938
Automania 2000, 1963
Magic Canvas, 1948
The Cultured Ape, 1960
The Owl and the Pussycat, 1952
Symphony Orchestra, 1964
Autobahn, 1979
History of the Cinema, 1957
Snip and Snap, Top Dogs, 1967
The Butterfly Ball, 1974
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Magic Canvas, 1948
(Anglia Ruskin)
Automania 2000, 1963
(FIAF, Beijing)
A Memory of Moholy Nagy, 1990
(John Halas centenary at the Barbican)
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