After the Fall
1991, 6'00", drawings on paper with location shooting, 16mm, 1.33:1
After the Fall is about relationships and the frustration of not being able to connect with others. The animation was drawn on paper and the individual drawings were shot in ourdoor locations: fast food restaurant, garbage dump, flower farm and on the slope of Mt. Hood. After the Fall ends with finding community, folllowed by a shot that eveals how the film was made. “For segments of After the Fall, Priestley propped up a sheet of clear plexiglas at various outdoor locations and shot animation by placing sequences of drawings in its center. In the finished film, the smooth hand-drawn animation is framed by time lapse, live-action backgrounds.” -Sharon Mizota, Los Angeles Times
Credits: Directed, Produced and Animated by Joanna Priestley. Music composed and produced by Billy Oskay and Cal Scott.
Awards
National Independent Film Competition (USA): Grand Prix
Athens Film and Video Festival (OH, USA): First Prize
Northwest Film and Video Festival (OR, USA): First Prize
Sinking Creek Film Festival (TN, USA): Cash Award Winner
Black Maria Film Festival (NJ, USA): Juror’s Award
Festivals
New York Film Festival (NY, USA)
Bombay International Film Festival (India)
San Francisco International Film Festival (CA, USA)
Touring Program:
Northwest Film Festival Tour, Portland Art Museum (OR, USA)
Screenings
Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY, USA)
Masters of Animation Festival (Trivandrum, India)
Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN, USA)
High Museum (Atlanta, GA, USA)
All My Relations
1990, 4'50", drawings on paper with 3-D frames, 16mm, 1.33:1
All My Relations satirizes the pitfalls of romance, from marriage, childbirth and upward mobility to the disintegration of a relationship. The animation is framed by a series of sculptural assemblages, which emphasize the message implied by the archetypal characters whose dilemmas may be familiar to those who have bought into the "American Dream".
Credits: Produced, directed and animated by Joanna Priestley. Voices by Victoria Parker and Scott Parker. Sound effects by Dennis Wiancko. Sound produced by Joanna Priestley. Assistant animation by Kathleen Nichols and Janet Karecki.
Awards
National Independent Film Competition: Grand Prix (USA)
Black Maria Film and Video Festival: Jury Award for Excellence (NJ, USA)
Big Muddy Film Festival: Best of Festival (IL, USA)
American Film and Video Festival: Second Place/Red Ribbon Award (USA)
Black Maria Film Festival: Jury Award for Excellence (NJ, USA)
Northwest Film and Video Festival, Portland Art Museum: Honorable Mention (OR, USA)
Athens International Film Festival: Honorable Mention (OH, USA)
Marin County Film Festival: Third Prize (CA, USA)
Festivals
New York Film Festival NY, (NY, USA)
Annecy International Animation Festival (France)
Hiroshima International Animation Festival (Japan)
Tournée of Animation (CA, USA)
Odense International Film Festival (Denmark)
Bombay International Film Festival (India)
Stuttgart International Animation Festival (Germany)
PIA Festival (Japan)
U.S.A. Film Festival (TX, USA)
Touring Programs:
Tournée of Animation (CA, USA)
Northwest Film and Video Festival Tour (OR, USA)
Screenings
American Cinematheque (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
REDCAT Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Walker Art Center Retrospective (Minneapolis, MN, USA)
Museum of Modern Art Retrospective (New York, NY, USA)
Masters of Animation Festival (Trivandrum, India)
Cinemateca Santa Ana (San Miguel de Allende, Mexico)
POW Festival Retrospective (Portland, OR, USA) 3-9-14
Art Education Conference (Kutztown, PA, USA) 11-20-15
Stuttgart International Animation Festival (Germany) 5-3-17
British Film Institute (London, UK) 5-13-17
Trailblazing Women of Animation: Joanna Priestley, NW Film Center, Portland Art Museum (OR, USA) 12-6-17
Fantoche International Animation Festival (Baden, Switzerland) 9-3-19
Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Invitational (Baltimore, MD, USA) 10-18-19
Best of Animation Program, Stuttgart International Animation Festival (Germany) 5-5-21
Portland Festival of Film, Animation & Technology, OMSI (Portland, OR USA) 8-23-24
Amazons and Ingenues
2004, 12 minutes, documentary
Amazons and Ingenues is a behind-the-scenes look at how Joanna Priestley’s award winning animated films “Voices,” “She-Bop,” “Pro and Con” and “Grown Up” were made. It features a tour of Priestley’s filmmaking studio in Portland, Oregon and a close up look at the artwork, drawing techniques and animation sequences in her films. Priestley also discusses female empowerment and other themes in her work. Amazons and Ingenues was distributed internationally on two DVDs: Venus Twist: Films by Joanna Priestley (2015) and Relative Orbits: Films by Joanna Priestley (2005).
Credits: Directed and produced by Joanna Priestley. Director of photography: Dan Ackerman. Edited by Forrest Burger. Sound by Eric Lahey and Michael Svoboda. Special thanks: Paul Harrod, David Massachi and Will Vinton Studios.
Andaluz
2004, 5'56", drawings on paper, 35mm, DCP, 1.33:1
A traveler’s love letter to Andalucía and an homage to the culture, landscape, and architecture of southern Spain. Andaluz explores details of the natural world in relation to the four elements, and suggests the close relationship between people and the land which they inhabit. "Short but sweet, this new animated tribute to southern Spain is just six minutes long, but the tale spans centuries." -Cheryl Sinapis, Boston Globe
Credits: Directed, produced and animated by Joanna Priestley and Karen Aqua. Music composed and produced by Ken Field and Juanito Pascual. Sound designed and produced by Lance Limbocker. Edited by Cam Williams. Musicians: Juanito Pascual, Fernando de Malaga, Adolfo Herrera and Ken Field. Director of photography: David Trappe.
Awards
Black Maria Film and Video Festival: Director's Choice Award (NJ, USA)
ASIFA-East Animation Awards: Excellence in Experimental Techniques (NY, USA)
Kalamazoo Animation Festival International: First Prize (MI, USA)
USA Film Festival: Finalist (TX, USA)
ASIFA-San Francisco Animation Awards: Second Prize (CA, USA)
Bimini International Animated Film Festival: Special Jury Diploma (Latvia)
New England Film & Video Festival: Jury Award for Best Indie Animation (Boston, MA, USA)
Festivals
New York Film Festival (NY, USA)
Big Muddy Film Festival (IL, USA)
Tehran International Animation Festival (Iran)
James River Film Festival (USA)
Platform International Animation Festival (OR, USA)
Leipzig International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (Germany)
Nashville Film Festival (TN, USA)
Newport International Film Festival (RI, USA)
Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films (Croatia)
Culture2Culture Tricky Women Festival (Vienna, Austria)
Anima Mundi (Brazil)
Starz Denver International Film Festival (Denver, CO, USA)
China International Cartoon and Digital Art Festival (China)
I Castelli Animati (Italy)
Animac International Animation Festival (Spain)
Northwest Film and Video Festival (OR, USA)
Jeon Ju International Film Festival (Korea)
Córdoba Animation Festival (Argentina)
Down Under International Film Festival (Australia)
KROK International Animated Film Festival (Ukraine)
CineMujer Film Festival (TX, USA)
Northampton Film Festival (NY, USA)
Womanimation! Film Festival (NH, USA)
Screenings
Boston Museum of Fine Arts (MA, USA)
Portland Art Museum (OR, USA)
Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, MA, USA)
American Cinematheque (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN, USA)
Paris Cinéma (France)
Jacob Burns Film Center (Pleasantville, CA, USA)
Prince Music Theater (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
Cinemateca Santa Ana (San Miguel de Allende, Mexico)
POW Festival, Hollywood Theater (Portland, OR, USA) 3-9-14
Fantoche International Animation Festival (Baden, Switzerland) 9-3-19
Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Invitational (Baltimore, MD, USA) 10-18-19
Art of Burning Man
2024, 50' 04", documentary, 16:9
Award winning indie filmmaker Joanna Priestley presents a digital image and film show that celebrates her favorite sculptures, architecture, installations, art cars and Temple rituals at the famous Burning Man festival from 2002 to 2022. Priestley also shares tales of her experiences in Black Rock City. This show/lecture was presented at the Empirical Theater at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland, Oregon, USA on April 20, 2024. “Burning Man has such a powerful impact on our culture and art. To have a local artist bring the visual and creative splendor of the festival to us on the big screen is an honor and a thrill.” -Melony Beaird, OMSI Director of Events.
Credits: Directed and produced by Joanna Priestley. Cinematography and editing by Mike Wilson. Sound design and sound effects by Chris Barber. Music by Seth Norman. Photography by Joanna Priestley, Stewart Harvey, Geoffrey Squire Silver, Paul Harrod, Vic Stevens, Sergio Ortiz, Sandra and Randy Grover and Randall Smith. Special thanks: Larry Harvey, Stewart Harvey, Geoff Silver, Paul Harrod, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Melody Beaird, Russ Repp, Annemarie Eayrs, Carly Rhodes.
Bottle Neck
2015, 2' 39", 2D computer animation, 16:9
A luminous crush of still life silhouettes, abstract shapes and complex, interlocking patterns, Bottle Neck renovates the commonplace objects of a classical painting genre in a modern setting. The final film in Priestley’s acclaimed Eye Liner Trilogy that includes Eye Liner and Split Ends.
Credits: Directed, produced and animated by Joanna Priestley. Sound designed and produced by Seth Norman. Title design and compositing by Brian Kinkley. Special thanks to Petit Pattern Books
Awards
Hiroshima International Film Festival: Best of the World Program (Japan)
Festivals
Stuttgart International Animation Festival (Germany)
Melbourne International Animation Festival (Australia)
Stockholm Animation and Experimental Film Festival (Sweden)
interfilm International Short Film Festival (Berlin, Germany)
Sydney Film Festival (Australia) 6-8–16
London International Animation Festival (UK)
Northwest Filmmaker's Festival, Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR, USA)
Athens International Film Festival (GA, USA)
INDIE hype (Australia + Germany) 6-28–16
TMC London Film Festival (UK)
Portland International Film Festival (OR, USA)
Insomnia Festival (Moscow, Russia)
Cinema Pacific Fringe Festival (Eugene, OR, USA) 4-2-15
Northwest Animation Festival (Portland, OR, USA)
Miami Independent Film Festival (FL, USA)
Tricky Women Animation Festival (Vienna, Austria) 3-3-16
New Zealand International Film Festival (Auckland, NZ)
Flying Robot International Film Festival (USA)
Screenings
Art Education Conference, Kutztown University (Kutztown, PA, USA) 11-20-15
Zip! Animation Event, St. Dennis Hall (Harrisville, NH, USA) 12-5-15
Homebrew Animation, Fertile Ground Festival (Portland, OR, USA) 1-24-16
Focus on Joanna Priestley, Tricky Women Animation Festival (Vienna, Austria) 3-3-16 and 3–6-16
Women in Film, Northwest Film Center, Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR, USA) 9-15-16
Celebrating Women in Animation, Animated Women UK (The Horse Hospital, London) 12-8-16
Best of the We Like 'Em Short Film Festival (NWFC, Portland Art Museum, OR, USA) 4-27-17
Stuttgart International Animation Festival (Germany) 5-3-17
British Film Institute (London, UK) 5-13-17
ASIFA-SF Spring Show, City College of San Francisco (USA) 6-16-17
Boathouse Microcinema (Portland, OR, USA) 3-8-17
Trailblazing Women of Animation: Joanna Priestley, NW Film Center, Portland Art Museum (OR, USA) 12-6-17
Fantoche International Animation Festival (Baden, Switzerland) 9-3-19
Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Invitational (Baltimore, MD, USA) 10-18-19
Portland Festival of Film, Animation & Tech. (Portland, OR USA) 8-23-24
Tokyo University of the Arts (Yokohama, Japan) 3-9-26
Candyjam
1988, 6'40", drawings, puppets and object animation, 35mm, 1.33:1
Candyjam is a whimsical, animated collaboration by ten animators from four countries. Each filmmaker brings their own unique style to this experimental film and every scene contains candy from around the world. The animation techniques include object animation, clay painting (a technique invented by Joan Gratz), mixed media animation, drawings on paper and stop motion animation.
Credits: Directed and produced by Joanna Priestley and Joan Gratz. Music designed and produced by Dave Storrs. Animated by David Anderson (London), Karen Aqua (Cambridge, MA, USA),Craig Bartlett (Los Angeles), Elizabeth Buttler (Cambridge, MA, USA), Paul Driessen (The Hague, Holland), Tom Gasek (Cambridge, MA, USA), Joan Gratz (Portland, OR, USA), Marv Newland (Vancouver, BC, Canada), Christine Panushka (Valencia, CA, USA) and Joanna Priestley.
Awards
Black Maria Film Festival (NJ, USA): First Prize
National Independent Film and Video Competition (USA): Honorable Mention
Chicago International Film Festival (IL, USA): Certificate of Merit
Sinking Creek Film Festival (TN, USA): Cash Award Winner
Northwest Film and Video Festival (USA): Honorable Mention
Cinanima International Animation Festival (Portugal): Honorable Mention
Festivals
Zagreb International Animation Festival (Croatia)
Flaherty Film Seminar (NY, USA)
Aspen Film Festival (CO, USA)
International Tournée of Animation (LA, USA)
Mill Valley Film Festival (CA, USA)
Denver Film Festival (CO, USA)
Screenings
Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY, USA)
Masters of Animation Festival (Trivandrum, India)
American Cinematheque (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
REDCAT Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN, USA)
Northwest Film Festival Tour Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR, USA)
Cinemateca Santa Ana (San Miguel de Allende, Mexico)
Canal+ (Paris, France)
POW Festival Retrospective (Portland, OR, USA) 3-9-14
Choking Hazard
2012, 1' 30", 2D computer animation, HD digital file, DCP, 16:9
A plastic tub takes a long trip to get recycled in this short short by award winning indie animator Joanna Priestley. Our best intentions can go awry when it comes to recycling plastic. Rumpy Pumpy was made to promote cautious use and inventive reuse of plastic and was funded by Create Plenty, Scrap and the Surfrider Foundation, .
Credits: Directed by Joanna Priestley. Produced by Joanna Priestley with Cheryl Lohrmann for Create Plenty, Scrap and the Surfrider Foundation, Portland Chapter. Sound Design by Chris Barber. Music by Thomas Barber. Animation by Joanna Priestley and Jed Bursiek. Musicians: Casey Bozell: Violin, Adam Trachsel: Bass, Cellos, Guitar, Chris Barber: Percussion, Meredith Adelaide: Vocals, Thomas Barber: Trumpet, French Horn, Tuba.
Festivals
Eco Comedy Film Competition (USA)
Dawson City International Short Film Festival (Canada)
Screenings
Northwest Film Center, Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR)
The Art Zone, Seattle Channel (Seattle, WA)
Sisters Movie House (Sisters, OR)
Plastics 360 Conference (Berkeley, CA)
Earth Day Celebration (NW Film Center, Portland, OR)
Clam Bake
2012, iOS app, interactive 2 animation, 16:9
Clam Bake begins with a group of turquoise clamshells, olive figure eights and a vermillion ball. Clicking revels new shapes, events and zoetropes and a prize is revealed when the all events have been opened. "Embracing new technology to further push the boundaries of animation’s capabilities, Clam Bake is not quite a game but an interactive objet d’art." -Nicholas Katzban, 24700
Credits: Directed, produced and animated by Joanna Priestley. Sound designed and produced by Seth Norman. Programmer and Assistant Animator Jed Bursiek.
Presentation: Cinema Pacific Fringe Festival, Schnitzer Museum of Art (Eugene, OR).
Dear Pluto
2012, 4'13", 3D + 2D computer animation, DCP, HD digital file, 16:9
A tribute to everyone’s favorite planetoid, written and narrated by Manhattan slam poet Taylor Mali. Dear Pluto blends 2D and 3D animation to explore Pluto’s unfortunate demotion in our Solar System.
Credits: Directed and produced by Joanna Priestley. Sound design by Lance Limbocker and Seth Norman. Written and performed by Taylor Mali. 3D animation by James O’Neill and Russell Wilkins. Design and 2D animation by Joanna Priestley. Music composed by Lance Limbocker. Compositing by Randy Wakerlin. Computer animation and modeling by Fred Ruff. Character voices by Rob Sample. Assistant 3-D modeling by Luc Coté. Storyboards by Dan Schaeffer. Character designs by Don Flores. Edited by Joanna Priestley and Randy Wakerlin. Supported by the Regional Arts and Culture Council.
Awards
ASIFA-San Francisco Film Festival: First Place, Independent Animation (CA, USA)
Northwest Filmmakers Festival: Audience Choice Award (OR, USA)
Ann Arbor Film Festival: Art & Science Award (MI, USA)
ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival: Best of ZEBRA (Germany)
Festivals
Interfilm International Short Film Festival (Germany)
Visible Verse Festival (Canada)
Dawson City Short Film Festival (Yukon, Canada)
Gig Harbor Film Festival (WA, USA)
POW Film Festival (Portland, OR, USA)
Spokane International Film Festival (WA, USA)
Poezijos Festivalis TARP (Lithuania)
Portland International Film Festival, (OR, USA)
Co-Kisser Poetry Film Festival (USA)
Cinema Pacific Fringe Festival (OR, USA)
Tricky Women Animation Festival (Vienna, Austria) 3-3-16
Screenings:
Portland Art Museum (OR, USA)
A Place Called Home, Hollywood Theater (Portland, OR, USA)
Annecy+ (Annecy, France)
DLR Poetry Now (Dublin, Ireland)
Artisterium (Tbilisi, Georgia)
Kosmopolis Festival (Barcelona, Spain) 3-16-13
Short Waves Festival (Poznan, Poland) 4-25-13
Internationales Lyrikertreffen Münster (Münster, Germany) 5-02-13
Copenhagen International Poetry Festival (Denmark) 5-24-13
Long Night of the Film Festivals (Berlin, Germany) 8-17-3
International Poetry Festival MERIDIAN CZERNOWITZ (Chernovtsy, Ukraine) 9-8-13
DotorClip Roma Poetry Film Festival (Rome, Italy) 10-24-13
Short Film Day (Berlin, Germany) 12-21-13
POW Film Festival (Portland, OR, USA) 3-9-14
Runokuu (Poetry Moon) Festival (Helsinki, Finland) 8-24-14
Cinema Pacific Fringe Festival (Eugene, OR, USA) 4-2-15
Art Education Conference (Kutztown, PA, USA) 11-20-15
Struga Poetry Evenings (Struga, Republic of Macedonia) 8-28-15
Stuttgart International Animation Festival (Germany) 5-3-17
British Film Institute (London, UK) 5-13-17
Trailblazing Women of Animation: Joanna Priestley, NW Film Center, Portland Art Museum (OR, USA) 12-6-17
Fantoche International Animation Festival (Baden, Switzerland) 9-3-19
Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Invitational (Baltimore, MD, USA) 10-18-19
Decanter
1989, 03:12, 16mm, silent, 2D computer animation, not in distribution
Decanter is an abstract structural experiment inspired by the work of Piet Mondrian. It was created at California Institute of the Arts where co-directors Jules Engel and Joanna Priestley were in the first computer animation class taught by Vibeke Sorensen in 1984-85. They used a Cubicomp with a Compaq PC (8 MB RAM, 40 MB hard drive) and Lumena, Easel and PC-10 software. Images were shot onto 16mm film from the the computer monitor, using a tripod mounted Bolex camera.
Credits: Directed, produced and animated by Jules Engel and Joanna Priestley.
Dew Line
2005, 4'25", 2D computer animation, DCP, HD digital file, 1.33:1
Dew Line grew out of Priestley's interest in botany and the experiences she had while camping at the abandoned Nuvagapak Point DEW (Distant Early Warning) Line station in the far north Arctic coast of Alaska. It was built in 1953 and used for Cold War military defense for nine years. Priestley was there to photograph plants and landscapes for the “Alaska Tundra” multi-image exhibit at the Oregon Zoo.
“A rich abstract tapestry of botanical and biomorphic forms. Priestley’s Flash animation is a striking continuation of her fluid playful style and lyrically comic sense of movement.” -Bill Foster, Director, Northwest Film Center.
Credits: Produced, directed and animated by Joanna Priestley. Sound and editing by Jamie Haggerty.
“Priestley’s playful eye takes us on a tour through the cycle of life and death as cells split apart, regenerate and dance a microbiological twist.” -Sam Green, Juror, NW Filmmakers Festival
Awards
Big Muddy Film Festival: First Prize (IL, USA)
Fantoche International Animation Festival: Best of the World Program (Baden, Switzerland)
Hiroshima International Animation Festival: Best of the World Program (Japan)
Black Maria Film Festival: Director’s Citation (NJ, USA)
Festivals
Anima Mundi Animation Festival (Brazil)
Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival (South Korea)
Prix Ars Electronica (Germany)
Ottawa International Animation Festival (Canada)
Mediawave International Film Festival (Hungary)
London International Animation Festival (UK)
Melbourne Animation Festival (Australia)
Leipzig International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (Germany)
I Castelli Animati (Italy)
Bimini International Animated Film Festival (Latvia)
Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival (Turkey)
Black Nights Film Festival (Estonia)
Newport International Film Festival (RI, USA)
Seattle International Film Festival (WA, USA)
Portland International Short Shorts Festival (USA)
Los Angeles Short Film Festival (CA, USA)
Dallas Video Festival (TX, USA)
Portland International Film Festival (OR, USA)
Northwest Film and Video Festival (OR, USA)
Hi Mom Film Festival (NC, USA)
Anchorage Film Festival (AK, USA)
We Are One Global Film Festival (New York, NY, USA) 5-29 to 6-7-20
Touring Programs:
Animated Worlds Tour and DVD (USA)
Independent Exposure Tour (International)
Northwest Film and Video Festival Tour (USA)
Screenings:
Women with Vision, Walker Art Center (MN, USA)
Northwest Film Center, Portland Art Museum (OR, USA) 1-28-13
Sisters Movie House Retrospective (OR, USA) 2-21-13
Women In Film (Portland, OR, USA) 7-1-13
POW Festival Retrospective (Portland, OR, USA) 3-9-14
Cinema Pacific Fringe Festival (Eugene, OR, USA) 4-2-15
Tricky Women Animation Festival (Vienna, Austria) 3-3-16
Stuttgart International Animation Festival (Germany) 5-3-17
British Film Institute (London, UK) 5-13-17
Trailblazing Women of Animation: Joanna Priestley, NW Film Center, Portland Art Museum (OR, USA) 12-6-17
Fantoche International Animation Festival (Baden, Switzerland) 9-3-19
Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Invitational (Baltimore, MD) 10-18-19
Tokyo University of the Arts (Yokohama, Japan) 3-9-26
Extended Play
2007, 4'00", animated installation, DVD, 3:1
An exploration and rediscovery of childhood pastimes. Set within the spotlight of an elliptical border, games, diagrams and objects of amusement create an evocative metaphor of youthful play. Extended Play was a two screen (”L” shaped), outdoor installation with Sam Mowry and Martin Gallagher providing live foley sound. It premiered at the Platform International Animation Festival in Portland, Oregon, USA.
Credits: Directed, produced and animated by Joanna Priestley. Digital effects artist: Daniel Phillip Johnson. Sound designed and produced by Marc Rose. Live sound and sound effects by Sam Mowry and Martin Gallagher. Improv vocals by Shannon Day and Janet Day.
Festival
“Inside Out”, Platform International Animation Festival (Portland, OR, USA) 6-28-07
Eye Liner
2011, 3' 53", 2D computer animation, DVD, HD digital file, 16:9
Award-winning indie filmmaker Joanna Priestley explores the archetypal shapes of the human face, surrounding them with chattering abstract forms and layering both with densely textured backgrounds. Eye Liner is a hand drawn animated film that creates a mesmerizing rhythm, both visually and aurally. It is the first film in Priestley’s acclaimed Eye Liner Trilogy, which includes Split Ends and Bottle Neck.
Credits: Directed, produced and animated by Joanna Priestley. Sound designed and produced by Seth Norman. Supported by the Regional Arts and Culture Council.
Awards
USA Film Festival: First Prize (TX, USA)
Black Maria Film and Video Festival: Second Prize (NJ, USA)
Festivals
Ottawa International Animation Festival (Canada)
Melbourne International Animation Festival (Australia)
London International Animation Festival (UK)
Anima Mundi Animation Festival (Brasil)
ANIFEST (Czech Republic)
Big Muddy Film Festival (IL, USA)
Portland International Film Festival (OR, USA)
Animac (Lleida, Spain)
Salem Film Festival (USA)
Local Sightings Film Festival, Northwest Film Forum (Seattle, WA, USA)
Northwest Filmmaker’s Festival (Portland, OR, USA)
We Like 'Em Short Film Festival (Baker City, OR, USA)
Fantasia International Film Festival (Canada)
Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Invitational (Baltimore, MD, USA)
Screenings:
National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC) 3-23-11
Cinemateca Santa Ana (San Miguel de Allende, Mexico)
Vashon Arts and Humanities (Vashon, WA) 11-13-11
Northwest Film Center, Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR) 1-28-12
Dawson City Short Film Festival (Yukon, Canada) 4-9-12
Hollywood Theater (Portland, OR) 4-29-12
30th Barcelona Comic Fair (Spain) 5-7-12
Creative Alliance (Baltimore, MD) 7-12-12
Animac Camina (throughout Spain) 2012-13
Sisters Movie House (Sisters, OR) 2-21-13
Women In Film (Portland, OR) 7-1-13
POW Festival Retrospective (Portland, OR) 3-9-14
Cinema Pacific Fringe Festival (Eugene, OR) 4-2-15
Art Education Conference (Kutztown, PA) 11-20-15
Tricky Women Animation Festival (Vienna, Austria) 3-3-16
Stuttgart International Animation Festival (Germany) 5-3-17
British Film Institute (London, UK) 5-13-17
Fantoche International Animation Festival (Baden, Switzerland) 9-3-19
Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Invitational (Baltimore, MD) 10-18-19
Tokyo University of the Arts (Yokohama, Japan) 3-9-26
Fleeting Marvels
2023 (04:28, live action and computer animation)
A jubilant , experimental celebration of the art, architecture, mutant vehicles and rituals at the Burning Man event in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA.
Credits: Directed and Produced by Joanna Priestley. Design and editing by Zak Margolis. Music by Seth Norman. Sound Design by Zak Margolis. Additional sound by Chris Barber. Videography: Paul Harrod, Joanna Priestley, Lisa Schroeder, Marianne Wilde. Animation: Zak Margolis and Joanna Priestley.
Award
Lisbon Film Rendezvous: Finalist
Festivals
Picknic Film Festival (Santander, Cantabria, Spain)
Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes Cine a la Calle (Barranquilla, Colombia)
Screenings
Art of Burning Man, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (World Premiere, Portland, OR, USA) 11-18-23
Art of Burning Man, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (Portland, OR, USA) 4-20-24
Grown Up
1993, 6'50", drawings on paper, pixillated hands and object animation, DVD, 16mm, 1.33:1
Grown Up takes a humorous and poignant look at what it means to be turning 40 and growing older. “In a time when everyone seems to be writing about aging, Priestley does a brilliant job of reclaiming 40 and her own process of middle aging with humor, optimism and an award winning animation style that just might make twenty-somethings wish they were older.” -Bill Foster, Northwest Film Center
Credits: Directed, produced, and animated by Joanna Priestley. Sound produced by Lance Limbocker. Written by Barbara Carnegie and Joanna Priestley. Music by Steve Christopherson and Warren Rand. Props by Paul Harrod.
Awards
Northwest Film and Video Festival: First Prize (Portland, OR, USA)
Marin County Film Festival: First Prize (CA, USA)
Worldfest Houston: Gold Award (TX, USA)
Black Maria Film and Video Festival: Director’s Citation Award (NJ, USA)
Charleston International Film Festival: Gold Award (NC, USA)
Columbus International Film Festival: Honorable Mention (OH, USA)
Intercom International Festival: Certificate of Merit (USA)
Festivals
Telluride Film Festival (CO, USA, Premiere)
New York Film Festival (NY, USA)
Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema (PA, USA)
Athens International Film and Video Festival (OH, USA)
Ottawa International Animation Festival (Canada)
U.S.A. Film Festival (Houston, TX, USA)
Stuttgart International Animation Festival (Germany)
Rocky Mountain Women's Film Festival (CO, USA)
San Francisco International Film Festival (CA, USA)
Sinking Creek Film Festival (TN, USA)
Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FL, USA)
Touring Program:
Northwest Film Festival Tour, Portland Art Museum (OR, USA)
Screenings
Fourth World Women’s Conference: Week long exhibition on the Beijing Train Station's 120 square meter Jumbotron screen, with over a million viewers (Beijing, China) (1995)
Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY, USA)
Masters of Animation Festival (Trivandrum, India)
American Cinematheque (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
REDCAT Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN, USA)
POW Festival Retrospective (Portland, OR) 3-9-14
Tricky Women Animation Festival (Vienna, Austria) 3-3-16
Fantoche International Animation Festival (Baden, Switzerland) 9-3-19
Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Invitational (Baltimore, MD, USA) 10-18-19
Portland Festival of Film, Animation & Technology, OMSI (Portland, OR USA) 8-23-18
Ashland Independent Film Festival (Ashland, OR, USA) 10-24
Hand Held
1995, 7 minutes, ink and watercolor on paper with pixillated hands
Hand Held is about organizing to confront oppression. The animation was hand drawn on index cards with ink, watercolor and pastels. The cards were shot while being held by real hands. Models of all ages (infant to Joanna’s 93 year old grandmother) and races, prosthetic hands and animal paws create a symbolic community of hands that surround the artwork. The soundtrack for Hand Held was performed by the acclaimed acappella quartet: The Bobs, featuring Joe Finetti, Richard Greene, Janie Scott and Matthew Stull.
Credits: Produced, directed and animated by Joanna Priestley. Sound produced and composed by Richard Greene and Joe Finetti. Soundtrack performed by The Bobs: Joe Finetti, Richard Greene, Janie Scott and Matthew Stull. Sound effects by Jaime Haggerty. Funding provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Special thanks to the MacDowell Colony and Teknifilm Labs.
Awards
Marin County Film Festival: First Prize (CA, USA)
Northwest Film and Video Festival: First Prize (Portland, OR, USA)
Black Maria Film Festival: Director’s Citation (NJ, USA)
Humbolt Film Festival: Honorable Mention (CA, USA)
Medicine Wheel Animation Festival: Honorable Mention (USA)
Festivals
Stuttgart International Animation Festival (Germany)
Leipzig International Film Festival (Germany)
Schorndorf International Cartoon Festival (Germany)
Screenings:
Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY, USA)
Masters of Animation Festival (Trivandrum, India)
Women with Vision, Walker Art Center (Minnesota, MN, USA)
Northwest Film Center, Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR, USA)
Sisters Movie House Retrospective (Sisters, OR, USA)
Jade Leaf
1985, 5'00", computer animation, 16mm, 1.33:1
Jade Leaf is an abstract computer painting inspired by botanical forms. It is the first computer animated film made at California Institute of the Arts. The images were made with a Cubicomp Picturemaker using a Compaq PC (8 MB RAM, 40 MB hard drive) and Lumena, Easel and PC-10 software. Images were shot onto 16mm film from the the computer monitor, using a tripod mounted Bolex camera. Eight people were in the first Cal Arts Computer Animation Lab in 1984 -85: four students and four faculty (including my mentor Jules Engel and Ed Emshwiller, Dean of the Film and Video School). One of the students, Dale McBeath, was a programmer who created the code I needed to connect the 16mm Bolex camera and shoot screen images. “Priestley’s abstract painting has a wonderful graphic flow, not completely geometric, yet not completely organic.” -Phil Borsos, NW Film and Video Festival Juror.
Credits: Produced, directed and animated by Joanna Priestley. Music composed and performed by Howard Richman
Award
Northwest Film and Video Festival: First Place (Portland, OR, USA)
Festival
Computer Animation Conference, Oregon School of Arts and Crafts (Portland, OR, USA)
Screenings:
Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, 2220 Arts (Los Angeles, CA, USA, 10-15-22)
Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, Block Cinema (Chicago, IL, USA, 11-5-22)
Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, Roxy Cinema (New York, NY, USA, 11-12-22)
Jung & Restless
2022, 06'06", 2D computer animation, DCP, HD digital file, 16:9, Dolby Digital
Jung & Restless dives into the mythopoetic realm with mandalas and dream inspired images that grasp at enigma. It invokes the oddity and magic of dreaming. Jung & Restless began while I was working with a senior Jungian analyst and stopped dreaming. I started animating short free form experiments, working intuitively without reflection, scrutiny or planning. A decade later I created a film from this material, incorporating mandalas of dream images and classic Jungian symbols. “The soul knows bigger stories.” -C.G. Jung
Credits: Directed, produced and animated by Joanna Priestley. Music composed and produced by Seth Norman. Sound design and sound effects by Chris Barber. Compositing and effects by Brian Kinkley. Thanks: Martha Blake and Paul Harrod. Supported by the Playa Foundation and the Ford Family Foundation.
Awards
Los Angeles Animation Festival: Silver Award for Experimental (CA, USA)
Reykjavik Independent Film Festival: Best Sound Design (Iceland)
Click for Festivals: Short of the Year Finalist (Madrid, Spain)
Fresh Stream Experimental Film Festival: Audience Award (Los Angeles, CA)
Barcelona Indie Filmmakers Festival: Nominated for Best Short - Animation (Spain)
Maracay International Film and Video Festival: Nominee for Best Animation (Venezuela)
ANIMAFILM Intl. Animation Festival: Nominee for Best Short Experimental Film (Baku, Azerbaijan)
McMinnville Short Film Festival: Nominee for Will Vinton Award for Best Animation (OR, USA)
Eastern Oregon Film Festival: Nominee for Best Short (LaGrande, OR, USA)
International World Photography Awards: Nominee for Best Animation (Slovakia)
Arizona Short Film Festival: Nominee for Award (Tempe, Arizona, USA)
USA Film Festival: Finalist (Dallas, TX, USA)
Lisbon Film Rendezvous: Finalist (Portugal)
Accordi @ Disaccordi International Short Film Festival: Finalist (Naples, Italy)
Deep Focus Film Festival: Honorable Mention (Brooklyn, NY, USA)
American Film Institute Festival: Semi-Finalist (Los Angeles. CA, USA)
Australia International Film Festival: Semi-Finalist (Brisbane, Australia)
Festivals
Annecy International Animation Festival (World Premiere, France)
Stuttgart International Animation Festival (Germany)
Fantoche International Animation Festival (Switzerland)
Melbourne International Animation Festival (Masters of Animation Program, Australia)
Insomnia International Animation Film Festival (Moscow, Russia)
Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner (France)
London International Animation Festival, Hackney Picturehouse (UK)
Wiesbaden International Animation Festival (Best of International Animation, Germany)
Walla Walla Movie Crush (WA, USA)
Trujillo International Film Festival (Trujillo, Peru)
Tamil Nadu Film Festival (Chennai, India)
Tibilsi International Animation Festival (Tibilsi, Georgia)
Indie for You Film Festival (Phoenix, AZ, USA)
Santa Cruz International Film Festival (Río Gallegos, Argentina)
T-Short Animated Film Festival (Experimental/Abstract Competition, Germany)
Festival Internacional FESCILMAR (Katowice, Poland)
Animation Film Festival Striped Tail (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
ANIMARIO Madrid International Festival of Contemporary Animation (Spain)
Fredrikstad Animation Festival (Norway)
Big Cartoon Festival (Moscow, Russia)
FESCILMAR Festival in Spain (Madrid)
Veracruz Short Film Festival (Guanajuato, Mexico)
Unprecedented Cinema International Festival of Short Film (Tallinn, Estonia)
GIRAF Festival of Independent Animation (Calgary, AL, Canada)
Goa Short Film Festival (India)
Bahia Independent Cinema Festival (Salvador, Brazil)
Coven Film Festival (San Francisco, CA, USA)
McMinnville Short Film Festival (OR, USA)
Kalpanirjhar International Short Fiction Film Festival (Kolkata, India)
Animaevka International Festival Animated Films (Mogilev, Belarus)
Spokane Film Festival (WA, USA)
NAFF International Animated Film Festival (Neum, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
We Like ‘Em Short (Baker City, OR, USA)
BUEIFF ProChannel International Competition (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
KINAM International Festival of Different Cinema (Mexico)
International World Photography Awards (New York, NY, USA)
Charlotte Film Festival (NC, USA)
SPARK Animation 2022: “Mothers of an Artform” (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
Encuentro Para Cinéfagos Festival de Cine-Arte en la Frontera (San Cristobal, Venezuela)
West Bengal Short Film Festival (West Bengal, India)
Himachal Short Film Festival (Himachal Pradesh, India)
Festival de Cine de Bogota (Colombia)
Aguilar Film Festival (Aguilar de Campo, Spain)
PequeFilmes International Children Film Festival of Galicia (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
Alibag Short FIlm Festival (Alibag, India)
Cascadia International Women's Film Festival (Bellingham, WA, USA)
Barcelona Indie Awards (Spain)
Buenos Aires Indie Shorts Award (Argentina)
Pune Short Film Festival (Pune, India)
Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation and Technology (OR, USA)
Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival (Baltimore, MD, USA)
Festival Cartón (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
ANIMATIBA Festival Internacional de Animação de Curitiba (Brazil)
Portland Panorama Festival Portand, OR, USA)
Screenings
Stuttgart International Animation Special (Germany, June 2021)
The Art of Burning Man, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (Portland, OR, USA,11-18-26 and
PFCAT Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (Portland, OR, USA 8-23-24)
The Art of Burning Man, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (Portland, OR USA) 11–23-23 and 4-20-24)
Portland Festival of Film, Animation & Technology, OMSI (Portland, OR USA) 8-23-24
Ashland Independent Film Festival (Ashland, OR, USA) 10-24
Tokyo University of the Arts (Yokohama, Japan) 3-9-26
Kali Yuga
2000, 4'00", pixillation and object animation, 16mm
Kali Yuga is an experimental animated film with pixillation of yogi and rock climber Diane Wilson in the forest combined with animation of nails, screws, bolts and tools. It was commissioned by Fear No Music, a contemporary music ensemble, to accompany the world premiere of a new composition by Joseph Waters. During the live performance, five musicians roamed the stage while playing and one performer played while encased upside down in a wooden sculpture.
Credits: Directed, produced and animated by Joanna Priestley. Music composed by and sound produced by Joseph Waters. Yoga performance by Diane Wilson. Music performed by the Fear No Music Ensemble and guests: Andrew Ehrlich (violin), Philip Hansen (cello), Joel Bluestone (percussion), Jeffrey Payne (piano), Mika Sunago (piano) and Joseph Waters (electronics). Edited by Steve Greiner, Creative Media Development. Special thanks to: Bill Foster, Larry Johnson, Winks Hardware and Paul Johnson.
Performances
Reed College (Portland, OR)
University of Oregon (Eugene, OR)
University of California at San Diego (CA)
Missed Aches
(2009, 3' 53", 2D computer animation, DCP, HD digital file, Beta SP, 16:9, stereo)
A witty commentary on ignorance, idiocy and our over-reliance on spell check. Written and narrated by Taylor Mali, who led teams to four championships in the National Poetry Slam, this dirty ditty animates text and plays up phonetics with hilarious results.
Credits: Directed, produced and animated by Joanna Priestley. Written and narrated by Taylor Mali. Sound design by Normand Roger and Pierre Yves Drapeau. Music by Pierre Yves Drapeau with Denis Chartrand and Normand Roger. Text Animation by Brian Kinkley. Character design and animation by Don Flores. Storyboards by Dan Schaeffer. Supported by the Regional Arts and Culture Council and the Caldera Institute.
Awards
Black Maria Film Festival: First Prize, Jury Award (NJ, USA)
USA Film Festival: Finalist (Houston, TX, USA)
Festivals
CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival (Toronto, ON, Canada)
Melbourne International Animation Festival (Australia)
AniMadrid Animation Festival (Spain)
Ottawa International Animation Festival (Ottawa, ON, Canada)
Barcelona Festival of Independent Cinema (Spain)
Ann Arbor Film Festival and Tour (USA)
Annecy International Animation Festival (France)
Interfilm Berlin (Germany)
Tricky Women Festival (Austria)
SICAF Animated Film Festival (Korea)
Vienna Independent Short Film Festival (Austria)
Animator International Festival (Poland)
VideoFest (USA)
Wiesbaden International Weekend of Animation (Germany)
Local Sightings, NorthWest Film Forum (Seattle, WA, USA)
ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival (Germany)
New Orleans Film Festival (LA, USA)
Portland International Film Festival (OR, USA)
Northwest Film and Video Festival (OR, USA)
BEFILM Underground Film Festival (USA)
Visible Verse (Canada)
Portland Women’s Film Festival (OR, USA)
Film Columbia (USA)
ASIFA NW Showcase (USA)
Crossroads Film Festival (USA)
Cinefest Sudbury (Canada)
Salem Film Festival (USA)
Cuisle Limerick City International Poetry Festival (Ireland)
Festival Silêncio (Lisbon, Portugal)
Dawson City Short Film Festival (Yukon, Canada)
Blue Met Literature Festival (Montreal, Canada)
Touring Programs
International Goethe-Institutes (World Tour)
CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival Tour (Canada)
Black Maria Film Festival Tour (USA)
Northwest Film and Video Festival Tour (USA)
Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour (USA)
Screenings
Portland Festival of Film, Animation & Technology, OMSI (Portland, OR USA) 8-23-24
Ashland Independent Film Festival (Ashland, OR, USA) 10-24
North of Blue
2018, 60' 07", 2D computer animation, DCP, HD digital file, 16:9, Dolby Digital
“Inspired by the chilling and mysterious winter landscapes of the Yukon, North of Blue is a mesmerizing non-narrative exploration giving form to the formless and offering shifting focal points and patterns that explore tensions between the recognizable and the strange. Bursting with lively colours and dynamic shapes, North of Blue is a stunning symphony which speaks to the explorer in us all.” -Chris Robinson, Artistic Director, Ottawa International Animation Festival
Credits: Directed, produced, animated and designed by Joanna Priestley. Sound designed and music composed by Jamie Haggerty. Compositing and paint effects by Brian Kinkley. Additional music by Seth Norman. Additional sound effects by Chris Barber. Edited by Greg Snider and Joanna Priestley. Assistant Animators: Neisje Morrell and Don Flores. Animation Assistants: Rachel Bradley, Jesse Bray, Gabe Mangold and Dui Oray. Supported by the Klondike Institute for Art and Culture, Caldera Foundation and Willapa Bay A.I.R.
Awards
Indie Film Awards: Best Experimental Film (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Los Angeles Animation Festival: Best Feature Film (USA)
Cuzco Underground Cinema Festival: Best Feature Film (Peru)
Yosemite International Film Festival: Best Animated Film (USA)
Local Sightings Film Festival: Best Sound Design and Best Original Score (Seattle, WA, USA)
European International Film Festival: Finalist (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Los Angeles CineFest: Semi-Finalist (USA)
Festivals:
Annecy International Animation Festival (World Premiere and two addl. screenings, France)
Melbourne International Animation Festival (Australia)
International Animated Film Festival ANIMATOR (Poznan, Poland)
Palm Springs International Animation Festival (CA, USA)
Insomnia Animation Festival (Russia)
Australian International Animation Festival (Brisbane, Australia)
Pixelatl Festival (Cuernavaca, Mexico)
Ottawa International Animation Festival (Canada)
Anim’Est International Animation Festival (Bucharest, Romania)
Australian International Animation Festival (Cairns, Queensland
AnimaSyros International Animation Festival + Agora (Athens, Greece)
ANIMAGE International Animation Festival (Pernambuco, Brasil)
SPARK Animation 2018 (Vancouver, Canada)
ReAnimania Int. Animation Film & Comics Art Festival (Yerevan, Armenia) 10-31-18
Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival (Portland, OR, USA) 11-4-1
Online Monthly, Semi-Finalist (USA) 11-18
Animae Caribe (Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago) 11-23-18
Moscow Animation Marathon Solyanka State Gallery (Moscow, Russia) 11-1 to 5-18
Mostra Internacional Films des Donas de Barcelona (Spain) 12-10-18
VOID International Animation Film Festival (Copenhagen, Denmark) 1-30-19
Xcèntric Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (Spain) 4-4-19
Athens International Film and Video Festival (OH, USA) 4-3-19
Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (Argentina) 4-3 to 14-19
Stockholm Experimental Animation Film Festival (Sweden) 4-29-19
Square One Conference, Universidad Iberoamericana (Puebla, Mexico) 4-11-19
Chilemonos International Animation Festival (Santiago, Chile) 5-10-19
FILMNORTH Northern BC Film Festival (Houston, BC, Canada) 7-27-19
We Like 'Em Short Film Festival (Baker City, OR, USA) 8-18-19
Fantoche International Animation Festival (Baden, Switzerland) 9-19-19
Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival (Baltimore, MD) 10-4-19
IndieCork Film Festival (Cork, Ireland) 10-13-19
Taichung International Animation Festival (Taichung City, Taiwan)
Barcelona Indie Filmmakers Festival (Spain)
Santa Cruz International Film Festival (Argentina)
Jaipur Film World (India)
Screenings
Stuttgart International Animation Festival (work-in-progress, Germany)
Hollywood Theatre (Portland, OR, USA)
Frame by Frame Conference, DePaul University (Chicago, IL, USA)
Cinémathèque québécoise (Montréal, Canada)
Cineteca nacional (Mexico City, Mexico)
Universidad Santo Tomás (Santiago, Chile)
Brown Center, Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, MD, USA)
Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico City, Mexico)
Online Monthly, Semi-Finalist
Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, MD)
Ashland Independent Film Festival (Ashland, OR, USA) 10-5-24 and 10-6-24
Out of Shape
2011, 1 minute, 2D computer animation, HD digital file
Inspired by the paintings of Joan Miró, this playful, short short features choreography of abstract shapes to delight the eye. Three boxes open to reveal a giant blue bubble and two sculptural shapes in Mondrian inspired colors. Abstractions sprinkle like raindrops and fly through the pearl white space like striped helicopter plants. Calligraphic and cellular shapes land in splats on a grid of black and red boxes. It concludes with all shapes returning to the open box.
Credits: Produced, directed and animated by Joanna Priestley. Sound design and mix by Marc Rose.
Festival
One Minute Film & Video Festival (Aarau, Switzerland).
Screening
Northwest Film Center – Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR, USA) 1-28-12
PDX PIX
2018, 02' 04", pixillation, Super 8 film transferred to HD digital file, 16:9
A pixellated tour of iconic Portland locations, including VooDoo Donuts, Tilikum Crossing Bridge of the People and the Portland sign. PDX-PIX was made in one week for the 45th Northwest Filmmakers' Festival 50 Foot Challenge. Ten filmmakers were given one roll of Super 8 film and asked to make a film, in camera, without editing.
Credits: Directed and produced by Joanna Priestley. Pixillation performance by Natalie Paik. Sound design by Marc Rose. Special thanks: Jamie Haggerty and Ben Popp.
Festival: Northwest Filmmakers' Festival, Portland Art Museum 11-4-18
Pro and Con
1993, 8'15", 2-D puppets, drawings, object and cel animation and clay painting, 35mm, 1.33:1
Pro and Con investigates life in prison through two monologues: one by a corrections officer (Lt. Janice Inman), and the other by Oregon State Penitentiary inmate, written by Jeff Green. Pro and Con features self-portraits that were drawn by inmates at the penitentiary and object animation of weapons and crafts that were confiscated from inmates. "Pro and Con is a brief but excellent exploration of the thoughts and emotions of those working and living in our prison system." -Rebecca S. Albitz, Pyramid Film and video
Credits: Produced, directed and animated by Joanna Priestley and Joan Gratz. Sound designed and produced by Lance Limbocker and Chel White. Music by Chel White. Narrated by Lt. Janice Inman and Allen Nause.
Awards
Black Maria Film Festival: Director’s Choice Award (NJ, USA)
Cindy Competition: Gold Award (USA)
Northwest Film and Video Festival: Honorable Mention (Portland, OR, USA)
Worldfest Charleston: Gold Award (GA, USA)
Birmingham Educational Film Festival: First Prize (AL, USA)
Columbus Film Festival: Honorable Mention (OH, USA)
CINE Competition: Gold Eagle Award (USA)
Festivals
Bombay International Film Festival (India)
Annecy International Animation Festival (France)
Holland Animation Festival (The Netherlands)
Sinking Creek Film Festival (OH, USA)
Ottawa International Animation Festival (Canada)
U.S.A. Film Festival (Houston, TX, USA)
Womanimation! Film Festival (NH, USA)
Screenings
American Cinematheque (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
REDCAT Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Walker Art Center Retrospective (Minneapolis, MN, USA)
Museum of Modern Art Retrospective (New York, NY, USA)
Masters of Animation Festival (Trivandrum, India)
Northwest Film Festival Tour (Portland, OR, USA)
Cinemateca Santa Ana (San Miguel de Allende, Mexico)
Sisters Movie House Retrospective (Sisters, OR, USA) 2-21-13
Cinema Pacific Fringe Festival (Eugene, OR, USA) 4-2-15
Art Education Conference (Kutztown, PA, USA) 11-20-15
Tricky Women Animation Festival (Vienna, Austria) 3-3-16
Stuttgart International Animation Festival (Germany) 5-3-17
British Film Institute (London, UK) 5-13-17
Trailblazing Women of Animation: Joan Gratz, NW Film Center, Portland Art Museum (OR, USA) 11-30-17
Portland Festival of Film, Animation & Technology, OMSI (Portland, OR USA) 8-23-24
Rumpy Pumpy
2013, 1'47", 2D computer animation, HD digital file, 16:9
A ballet of private parts, in all their glorious combinations.
Credits: Directed, animated and produced by Joanna Priestley. Sound effects and mix by Seth Norman. Music by Richard Strauss, courtesy of emp3world. Assistant Animator: Rachel Bradley.
Festivals
Hump Festival (Seattle, WA, Olympia, WA & Portland, OR, USA)
San Diego Comic-Con International (CA, USA)
Annecy Animation Festival: Best of Spike & Mike Sick & Twisted (France).
Touring Programs and Screenings
Best of Hump Festival Tour 2014 (USA)
Best of Hump Festival Tour 2017-18 (USA and Canada)
Best of Hump Pandemic Streaming 2020 (worldwide)
Boathouse Microcinema (Portland, OR) 3-8-17
Best of Hump Streaming 2024 (worldwide)
She-Bop
1988, 8'00", drawings and puppet animation, 16mm, 1.33:1
She-Bop is about power, rage and seizing control of your life. It features Kali, the Great Goddess who is both creator and destroyer. She-Bop combines drawings on index cards, puppet animation, abstraction and character animation. It is based on a poem by Carolyn Myers, performed by jazz singer Carolyn Lochert Curtis. “An ode to the Goddess and female power, set to a poem by writer and performer Carolyn Myers.” –Sharon Mizota, Los Angeles Times
Credits: Directed, produced, and animated by Joanna Priestley. Music and sound design by Dave Storrs. Written by Carolyn Myers. Narration by Carolyn Lochert Curtis. Supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Awards
National Independent Film and Video Competition: Grand Prix (USA)
Black Maria Film Festival: Director’s Choice Award (NJ, USA)
San Francisco International Film Festival: Special Jury Award (CA, USA)
National Educational Film Festival: Special Merit Award (USA)
Northwest Film and Video Festival: First Prize (Portland, OR, USA)
Sinking Creek Film Festival: Cash Award Winner (IL, USA)
Cinanima International Animation Festival: Honorable Mention (Portugal)
Festivals
Annecy International Animation Festival (France)
Denver Film Festival (CO, USA)
Montana Film Festival (Missoula, MT, USA)
Chicago International Film and Video Festival (IL, USA)
Odense International Film Festival (Denmark)
Touring Program:
Northwest Film and Video Festival Tour, Portland Art Museum (OR, USA)
Screenings
Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY, USA)
Masters of Animation Festival (India)
American Cinematheque (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
REDCAT Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN, USA)
Cinemateca Santa Ana (San Miguel de Allende, Mexico)
POW Festival Retrospective (Portland, OR, USA) 3-9-14
Tricky Women Animation Festival (Vienna, Austria) 3-3-16
Stuttgart International Animation Festival (Germany) 5-3-17
British Film Institute (London, UK) 5-13-17
Trailblazing Women of Animation: Joanna Priestley, NW Film Center, Portland Art Museum (OR, USA) 12-6-17
Fantoche International Animation Festival (Baden, Switzerland) 9-3-19
Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Invitational (Baltimore, MD, USA) 10-18-19
Portland Festival of Film, Animation & Technology, OMSI (Portland, OR USA) 8-23-24
Ashland Independent Film Festival (Ashland, OR, USA) 10-24
Split Ends
2013 (3' 33", 2D computer animation, 16:9, stereo)
The delicate lines and luscious colors of Split Ends bloom across the screen in a masterful exploration of abstraction, pattern and memory. In this hand drawn film, vines, fleur-de-lis, tendrils and other organic motifs coalesce into mesmerizing full-frame animations. Split Ends is the second film in Priestley’s acclaimed Eye Liner Trilogy that includes Eye Liner and Bottle Neck.
Credits: Directed, produced and animated by Joanna Priestley. Sound designed and produced by Seth Norman. Edited by Joanna Priestley and Brian Kinkley. Compositing and design by Brian Kinkley. Supported by the Regional Arts and Culture Council.
Awards
Black Maria Film Festival: Third Prize, Director’s Choice Award (NJ, USA)
USA Film Festival: Finalist (Houston, TX, USA)
Monstra Animated Film Festival: Best of World - Short Films (Portugal)
ASIFA-SF Spring Show: Second Prize (CA, USA)
Festivals
Annecy International Animation Festival (France)
Ottawa International Animation Festival (Canada)
Anima Mundi International Animation Festival (Brasil)
Tel Aviv Animation Festival (Israel)
Portland International Film Festival (OR, USA)
Dawson City Short Film Festival (Canada)
Melbourne International Animation Festival (Australia)
London International Animation Festival (UK)
AnimaEst International Animation Festival (Romania)
Northwest Filmmakers Festival, Portland Art Museum (OR, USA)
Wizard World Film Festival (USA)
POW Festival (Portland, OR, USA)
We Like 'Em Short Film Festival (Baker City, OR, USA)
Vienna Independent Shorts Film Festival (Austria)
Washington, DC International Film Festival (USA)
Eastern Oregon Film Festival (La Grande, OR, USA)
Touring Programs
Anima Mundi on the Road (Brazil) 2013-14
Black Maria Film Festival Tour (USA) 2014
Monstra Animated Film Festival Touring Program (Portugal) 2014-15
Northwest Filmmakers Festival Tour (USA) 2014-15
Screenings
Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR, USA) 1-28-12
Hollywood Theater: A Place Called Home (Portland, OR, USA) 4-29-12
Sisters Movie House Retrospective (Sisters, OR, USA) 2-21-13
Women In Film (Portland, OR, USA) 7-1-13
Best New American Independent Animation (three screenings):
American Cultural Center (Shanghai University, China) 2-24-14
American Cultural Center (Hangzhou, China) 2-25-14
American Cultural Center (Nanjing, China) 2-27-14
POW Festival Retrospective (Portland, OR, USA) 3-9-14
Hiroshima International Animation Festival (Japan) 8-14
Cinema Pacific Fringe Festival (Eugene, OR, USA) 4-2-15
Josephy Center (Joseph, OR, USA) 2-22-14
Prodigal Son Brewery & Pub (Pendleton, OR, USA) 2-23-14
Roxy Theater (Missoula, MT, USA) 3-6-14
Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art (Great Falls, MT, USA) 3-7-14
Treefort Film & Music Festival (Boise, ID, USA) 3/19/14
Northwest Film Center, Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR, USA) 4-17+19-14
Ross Ragland Theater (Klamath Falls, OR, USA) 4-24-14
Pickford Theater (Bellingham, WA, USA) 7-13-14
Bay City Arts Association (Bay City, OR, USA) 7-19-14
Beaverton City Library (Beaverton, OR, USA) 9-18-14
Pacific University (Forest Grove, OR, USA) 9-27-14
Astoria Film Festival (Astoria, OR, USA) 10-18-14
Hoffman Center (Manzanita, OR, USA) 1-23-15
Skagway Arts Council (Skagway, AK, USA) 2-22-15
Billings Public Library (Billings, MT, USA) 5-30-15
Vancouver Public Library (Vancouver, WA, USA) 10-6-15
Art Education Conference (Kutztown, PA, USA) 11-20-15
Animation by Design, Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR, USA) 4-22-16
Tricky Women Animation Festival (Vienna, Austria) 3-3-16
Stuttgart International Animation Festival (Germany) 5-3-17
British Film Institute (London, UK) 5-13-17
Boathouse Microcinema (Portland, OR, USA) 3-8-17
Trailblazing Women of Animation: Joanna Priestley, NW Film Center, Portland Art Museum (OR, USA) 12-6-17
Fantoche International Animation Festival (Baden, Switzerland) 9-3-19
Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Invitational (Baltimore, MD, USA) 10-18-19
Portland Festival of Film, Animation & Technology, OMSI (Portland, OR USA) 8-23-24
Streetcar Named Perspire
2007, 6'23", 2-D computer animation, DCP, HD digital file, BetaSP, 16:9, stereo
A wild roller coaster journey through the mood swings, hot flashes and brain fog of one of life’s great transitions. “Priestley’s animated roller coaster ride both previews and celebrates- depending on your age- one of life’s most thrill-filled experiences.” -Heike Kuehn, Northwest Film and Video Festival
Credits: Directed and produced by Joanna Priestley. Sound designed and produced by Lance Limbocker. Music composed by John Smith. Animation by Pascal Campion and Joanna Priestley. Voices by Victoria Parker Pohl and Paul Harrod. Written by Joanna Priestley and Victoria Parker Pohl. Editing by Michael Corrigan and Joanna Priestley. Funding: Regional Arts and Culture Council. Special Thanks: The MacDowell Colony.
Awards
Black Maria Film Festival: Third Prize, Director’s Choice Award (NJ, USA)
Kalamazoo Animation Festival International: Finalist (MI, USA)
Festivals
London International Animation Festival (UK)
Melbourne International Animation Festival (Australia)
Stuttgart International Animation Festival (Germany)
China International Animation and Digital Arts Festival (Changzhou, China)
AniFest (Czech Republic)
Animadrid (Spain)
Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival (Korea)
Dallas Video Festival (TX, USA)
Exeter International Film Festival (UK)
Big Muddy Film Festival (NJ, USA)
Ann Arbor Film Festival (MI, USA)
Festival Bimini (Latvia)
Tricky Women Film Festival (Vienna, Austria)
Portland International Film Festival (OR, USA)
Northwest Film and Video Festival (OR, USA)
Portland Women’s Film Festival (OR, USA)
Three Rivers Film Festival (USA)
Womanimation! Film Festival (USA)
Cinanima (Portugal)
Tacoma Film Festival (WA, USA)
World of Women Film Festival (Australia)
Michigan Womyns Film Festival (MI, USA)
VisuElles Film Festival (Ottawa, Canada) 10-14-18
Screenings
International Showcase, Ottawa International Animation Festival (Canada)
National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, DC, USA)
American Cinematheque (Los Angeles, USA)
REDCAT Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles, USA)
International Society for Menstrual Research (Spokane, WA, USA)
Cinemateca Santa Ana (San Miguel de Allende, Mexico)
Best of Tricky Women, Femme Fest Moscow (Russia) 11-18-12
POW Festival Retrospective (Portland, OR, USA) 3-9-14
"Body Images," Evangelische Akademie Wien (Austria) 9-14
POW Film Festival (Portland, OR, USA) 3-9-14
The Unmentionables Film Festival (New York, NY, USA) 6-10-15
Tricky Women Animation Festival (Vienna, Austria) 3-3-16
Stuttgart International Animation Festival (Germany) 5-3-17
British Film Institute (London, UK) 5-13-17
Trailblazing Women of Animation: Joanna Priestley, NW Film Center, Portland Art Museum (OR, USA) 12-6-17
dotdotdot Open Air Kurzfilmfestival (Vienna, Austria) 7-3 to 8-24-18
"Secret Desire – Issues of Gender & Sexuality", Indie-AniFest (Seoul, South Korea) 9-15-18
Fantoche International Animation Festival (Baden, Switzerland) 9-3-19
Portland Festival of Film, Animation & Tech. (Portland, OR USA) 8-23-24
Depot "Menopause" Salon (Vienna, Austria) 4-7-26
Surface Dive
2000, 7'33", replacement animation, glass, and pastels on paper, DVD, 35mm, 1.85:1, Dolby Digital
Inspired by a snorkeling adventure in a freshwater cenote in the Yucatan, Mexico, Surface Dive combines three layers of artwork, molded replacement sculptures, glass pieces and pastel drawings on paper. Each layer is animated separately and shot on a multi-level stand. "More than 600 sculptures, 200 glass pieces and 2200 drawings combine to fashion a work of dazzling detail and complexity.” -Bill Foster, Director, Northwest Film Center
Credits: Directed, produced and animated by Joanna Priestley. Sound designed and produced by Lance Limbocker and Drew Canulette. Director of photography: David Trappe. Edited by David Massachi. Camera operators: Emily Halderman and Joanna Priestley. Sculpture assts.: Catherine Dunn and Yan Nguyen. A project of Creative Capital.
Awards
Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival: First Place Award for Expression (Korea)
World Animation Celebration: Best Experimental Film (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Black Maria Film Festival (USA): Director’s Citation Award (NJ, USA)
Culture2Culture Tricky Women Festival: City of Vienna Prize (Vienna, Austria)
Festivals
Sundance Film Festival (UT, USA)
Taos Talking Picture Festival (NM, USA)
Anima Mundi International Animation Festival (Brasil)
I Castelli Animati Animation Festival (Italy)
Cinanima International Animation Festival (Portugal)
Leipzig International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (Germany)
Northwest Film and Video Festival (Portland, OR, USA)
Nordic and Baltic Animation Festival (Norway)
Big Muddy Film Festival (NJ, USA)
Dallas Video Festival (TX, USA)
Animated Encounters: Bristol International Animation Festival (UK)
Stuttgart International Animation Festival (Germany)
ANIMAC International Animation Festival (Spain)
James River Film Festival (USA)
Ann Arbor Film Festival (MI, USA)
Filme Im Schloss: Weisbaden Animation Festival (Germany)
Enzimi Festival (Rome, Italy)
Screenings
Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY, USA)
Masters of Animation Festival (Trivandrum, India)
Architecture and Animation (Barcelona, Spain)
Northwest Film and Video Festival Tour (Portland, OR, USA)
American Cinematheque (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN, USA)
POW Festival Retrospective (Portland, OR, USA)
Trailblazing Women of Animation: Joanna Priestley, Northwest Film Center, Portland Art Museum (OR, USA)
The Dancing Bulrushes
1985, 5'00", sand animation, black and white, 16mm, 1.33:1
The Dancing Bulrushes is based on an Ojibwa Native American story about coyote, the trickster, published by Barry Lopez. The film was made by animating beach sand on a sleet of back lit glass, frame by frame, under the camera. "Sand, lit from behind, is manipulated to recreate the Chippewa tale of a wily coyote, and the screen's surface becomes a shifting sea of grains." -Maxine beach, Webster University Journal
Credits: Produced, directed and animated by Joanna Priestley and Steven Subotnick. Music composed and performed by Miroslav Tadic. Written by Barry Lopez. Narrated by Fran Bennett.
Awards
USA Film Festival: Special Judges Award for New Animation Talent (Dallas, TX, USA)
Chicago International Film Festival: Gold Hugo Nominee for Best Short Film (IL, USA)
Sinking Creek Film Festival: Cash Award Winner (TN, USA)
FOCUS Film Festival: Third Place (USA)
Festivals
Athens International Film Festival (OH, USA)
San Francisco International Film Festival (CA, USA)
Chicago International Film Festival (IL, USA)
Los Angeles International Animation Celebration (CA, USA)
Northwest Film and Video Festival, Portland Art Museum (OR, USA)
Touring Program
Northwest Film Festival Tour, Portland Art Museum (OR, USA)
Screenings
Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY, USA)
Cinémathèque française, Centre Pompidou (Paris, France)
Masters of Animation Festival (Trivandrum, India)
Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN, USA)
The Rubber Stamp Film
1983, 7'00", rubber stamps on index cards, 16mm, 1.33:1
"The images are all made from new and old rubber stamps which combine, entangle and collide at a rapid and joyous pace. A hundred little stories are told as the images zip by to a collaged sound-track of voices and musical fragments. An imaginative, witty and energetic film. Pure delight!" -Melinda Ward, Walker Art Center
"A tour de force!" -Bill Foster, Northwest Film Center
Credits: Produced, directed and animated by Joanna Priestley. Sound designed and produced by R. Dennis Wiancko.
Awards
New York Independent Filmmakers Expo: First Place (NY, USA)
Motion Picture Sound Editors: Golden Reel Award (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Northwest Film and Video Festival: First Place (Portland, OR, USA)
Black Maria Film Festival: Director’s Choice Award (NJ, USA)
Baltimore Film Festival: Second Place (MD, USA)
Festivals
Telluride Film Festival (CO, USA)
Hiroshima International Animation Festival (Japan)
Canadian International Animation Festival (Canada)
Aspen Film Festival (CO, USA)
Chicago International Film Festival (MI, USA)
Touring Program
Northwest Film Festival Tour, Portland Art Museum (OR, USA)
Screenings
Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY, USA)
Masters of Animation Festival (Trivandrum, India)
Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN, USA)
POW Festival Retrospective (Portland, OR, USA) 3-9-14
Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Invitational (Baltimore, MD, USA) 10-18-19
Times Square
1986, 4'00", computer animation, not in distribution
Times Square is an abstract meditation on urban shapes and sounds. It was created at California Institute of the Arts where co-directors Jules Engel and Joanna Priestley were in the first computer animation class at Cal Arts (1984-85), taught by Vibeke Sorensen. They used a Cubicomp with a Compaq PC (8 MB RAM, 40 MB hard drive) and Lumena, Easel and PC-10 software. Images were shot onto 16mm film from the the computer monitor, using a tripod mounted Bolex camera.
“As blocks of color click into place and march across the screen, there is a clear sense of masses of people moving among tall buildings and subway trains arriving and departing.” -St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Credits: Directed, produced and animated by Joanna Priestley and Jules Engel. Sound designed and produced by R. Dennis Wiancko. Editing, title design and credits by Joanna Priestley.
Utopia Parkway
1997, 5 minutes, drawings on paper, sculptures and glass, 35 mm and DVD, 1.33:1
Utopia Parkway is an exuberant, animated exploration of containment and compartmentalization inspired by the fascinating box sculptures of Joseph Cornell, who lived on Utopia Parkway (Queens, NY, USA) nearly all of his life. The animation was created with pastel and colored pencil drawings on paper, yellow cedar and pressed paper cigar boxes, glass bottles, seashells, pine boxes and 122 molded replacement sculptures made with MagiSculpt and hand painted with acrylic paint and varnish.
Credits: Directed, produced and animated by Joanna Priestley. Sound design and music by Jamie Haggerty. Art director: Paul Harrod. Directors of photography: Charles Rehwalt (box unit) and David Trappe (bottle unit). Edited by Chris Willging and Joanna Priestley. Sculpture animation by Christine Bourdette, Barry Bruce, Theresa Drilling, Chuck Duke, Joan Gratz, Mark Gustavson, Jean Poulot and Joanna Priestley.
Awards
San Francisco International Film Festival: Golden Gate Award (CA, USA)
Big Muddy Film Festival: Best of Festival (NJ, USA)
Northwest Film and Video Festival: Judge’s Award (Portland, OR, USA)
Black Maria Film Festival (USA): Director’s Choice Award (NJ, USA)
U.S.A. Film Festival- Finalist (Houston, TX, USA)
Festivals
Fantoche International Festival for Animated Films- Best of the World Program (Switzerland)
I Castelli Animati (Italy)
Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films (Croatia)
Hiroshima International Animation Festival (Japan)
Anima Mundi International Animation Festival (Brasil)
Stuttgart International Animation Festival (Germany)
Cinanima International Animation Festival (Portugal)
Oslo Animation Festival (Norway)
Annecy International Animation Festival (France)
Ecofilm International Festival of Environmental Films (France)
Intercom: International Festival of Films of the Environment (France)
The World Animation Celebration (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Mill Valley Film Festival (CA, USA)
Leipzig Documentary and Animation Film Festival (Germany)
Interfilm Berlin Festival (Germany)
Schlondorf International Film Festival (Austria)
ANIMAC (Spain)
Matita Film Festival (Italy)
Malaysia Video Awards (Malaysia)
Dallas Video Festival (TX, USA)
Taos Talking Picture Festival (Taos, NM, USA)
Vital International Animation Festival (UK)
Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema (PA, USA)
Screenings
Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY, USA)
Masters of Animation Festival (Trivandrum, India)
Northwest Film Festival Tour (Portland, OR, USA)
Architecture and Animation (Barcelona, Spain)
The Sundance Channel (USA)
Southwestern Alternative Media Arts Project (USA)
Television Suisse Romande (Switzerland)
American Cinematheque (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
REDCAT Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN, USA)
Sisters Movie House (Sisters, OR, USA) 2-21-13
POW Festival Retrospective (Portland, OR, USA) 3-9-14
Cinema Pacific Fringe Festival (Eugene, OR, USA) 4-2-15
Art Education Conference (Kutztown, PA, USA) 11-20-15
Stuttgart International Animation Festival (Germany) 5-3-17
British Film Institute (London, UK) 5-13-17
Trailblazing Women of Animation: Joanna Priestley, NW Film Center, Portland Art Museum (OR, USA) 12-6-17
Fantoche International Animation Festival (Baden, Switzerland) 9-3-19
Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Invitational (Baltimore, MD, USA) 10-18-19
Portland Festival of Film, Animation & Technology, OMSI (Portland, OR USA) 8-23-24
Voices
1985, 4'07", drawings on paper, 16mm, 1.33:1
A humorous exploration of the fears we share: fear of the darkness, of monsters, of aging, of being overweight and of global destruction. "Priestley gets across a series of personal phobias in a refreshing and humorous fashion. We get a superb, contemporary animated film with salutes to historical cartoon figures scattered throughout. Delightful!" -Marv Newland, Northwest Film and Video Festival Juror. “Priestley’s film shows great joy and delight in being alive. It’s a message with style.” -Ed Emshwiller
Credits: Produced, directed and animated by Joanna Priestley. Sound designed and produced by R. Dennis Wiancko.
Awards
National Independent Film Competition: First Place (USA)
National Educational Film Festival: First Place (USA)
Odense International Film Festival: Special Jury Prize (Denmark)
Algarve Cinema Festival: Best Animated Film (Portugal)
Tel Aviv International Film Festival: First Place (USA)
Big Muddy Film Festival: Best of Festival (USA)
Canadian International Animation Festival: Special Merit Award (USA)
Northwest Film and Video Festival: Best of Festival (OR, USA)
CINE Competition: Gold Eagle Award (USA)
Chicago International Film Festival: Bronze Hugo Award (IL, USA)
U.S.A. Film Festival: Finalist (Houston, TX, USA)
Sinking Creek Film Festival: Cash Award Winner (IL, USA)
Festivals
Telluride Film Festival (CO, USA)
Hiroshima International Animation Festival (Japan)
Zagreb International Animation Festival (Croatia)
Hong Kong International Film Festival (China)
Los Angeles International Animation Celebration (CA, USA)
Denver International Film Festival (CO, USA)
Olympia Film Festival (WA, USA)
Black Maria Film Festival (NJ, USA)
Stuttgart International Animation Festival (Germany)
Films des Femmes: Festival International de Créteil (France)
San Francisco International Film Festival (CA, USA)
Montreal International Women’s Film Festival (Canada)
New York Filmmaker’s Expo (NY, USA)
Bumbershoot Film Festival (WA, USA)
Flaherty Film Seminar (NY, USA)
Womanimation! Film Festival (USA)
Big Cartoon Festival (Moscow, Russia)
Touring Programs:
The Festival of Animation (USA)
Black Maria Film Festival Tour (USA)
Northwest Film Festival Tour (USA)
Screenings
New Directors Series: Film Society of Lincoln Center (New York, NY, USA)
Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY, USA)
Masters of Animation Festival (Trivandrum, India)
Centre Pompidou (Paris, France)
Women’s Eye View Film Festival (Portland, OR, USA)
Cinemateca Santa Ana (San Miguel de Allende, Mexico)
POW Festival Retrospective (Portland, OR, USA) 3-9-14
Art Education Conference (Kutztown, PA, USA) 11-20-15
Tricky Women Animation Festival (Vienna, Austria) 3-3-16
Stuttgart International Animation Festival (Germany) 5-3-17
British Film Institute (London, UK) 5-13-17
Nach der Angst/Post Fear, DOK-Film (Leipzig, Germany) 11-2-17
Trailblazing Women of Animation: Joanna Priestley, NW Film Center, Portland Art Museum (OR, USA) 12-6-17
Independent Frames - Lightbox Film Center, International House (Philadelphia, PA, USA) 1-20-18
The Mini Microcinema (Cincinnati, OH, USA) 3-15-18
Big Cartoon Festival (Moscow, Russia) 10-18
Fantoche International Animation Festival (Baden, Switzerland) 9-3-19
Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Invitational (Baltimore, MD, USA) 10-18-19
Portland Festival of Film, Animation & Technology, OMSI (Portland, OR USA) 8-23-24
Ashland Independent Film Festival (Ashland, OR, USA) 10-24
Territorio Mixteca Film Festival (Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca, Mexico) 12-6-24
Bryn Mawr Film Institute (Philadelphia, PA, USA) 8-13-26
Tokyo University of the Arts (Yokohama, Japan) 3-9-26
xo1
2011, 00:18, 2-D computer animation
xo1 is a short experiment that juxtaposes abstract motifs inspired by tribal tattoos juxtaposed with ordinary still life objects: bowl, bottle, teapost and flower in a vase.
Credits: Directed, produced, animated and sound design by Joanna Priestley.
xo1 was exhibited in "BIOSHIFT - Elemental Designs for a Malleable World" at the Peephole Cinema (San Francisco, CA, USA) from March 28 to May 22, 2016. It was screened continuously, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. xo1 was viewed by one person at a time, looking through a peephole in a wall next to a sidewalk.