Celebrating the Netherlands-Russia-year, KLIK! presents a special on Russian Animation, in collaboration with the Hermitage Amsterdam, The Amsterdamsche Fonds, The NLRF2013 and the International festival of Animation Arts “Multivision”.

Saturday, July 20:

1 p.m.

Building Russia in Amsterdam

Cardboard king Mathijs Stegink invites you to build a miniature city of cardboard inspired by Russian architecture, on Saturday. Sign up for the workshop now!

2 p.m.

Into Russian Animation

Learn more about Russian animation during a talk by animation expert Timo Linsenmaier.

Timo Linsenmaier's research interest lies in the history and aesthetics of Soviet and Russian animation. His MA thesis covered the development of Soviet animation after 1960. Linsenmaier has regularly given talks at conferences and published several articles in peer-reviewed journals, and has been awarded the Society for Animation Studies' McLaren/Lambert Essay Award in 2006.

3.30 p.m.

Masters of Russian Animation

Watch a premium selection of classic Russian animated films from the 1960's to the 80's:

Story of One Crime – Fyodor Khitruk

My Green Crocodile – Vadim Kurchevskiy

Once There Was a Dog – Eduard Nazarov

Battle of Kerzhenets – Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Yuriy Norshteyn

Glass Harmonica – Andrey Khrzhanovskiy

Hedgehog in the Fog – Yuriy Norshteyn

Sunday, July 21:

2 p.m.

Magia Russica

Watch the magical documentary on the legendary Russian animation-filmmakers like Fyodor Khitruk and Yuriy Norshteyn

4 p.m.

Russian Animation Nowadays

A very special selection of contemporary Russian animated films:

Pishto Goes Away – Sonya Kendel

Chinti – Natalia Mirzoyan

My Strange Grandpa – Dina Velikovskaya

A Trip to the Seaside – Nina Bisyarina

A Girl for a Hare – Svetlana Razgulyaeva

Cosmo New Year Anton Korolyuk, Anton Bizyaev

Dog-walking Ground Leonid Shmelkov

See the website of Hermitage Amsterdam for more information: www.hermitage.nl.

2 Cities – 2 Festivals – 2 Bridges – 1 Summer night & a shared love for animation.

At 11 p.m., on the night of July 19th KLIK! and Multivision will simultaneously show animated shorts on the Skinny Bridge (Magere Brug) in Amsterdam and the Trinity Bridge (Troitskiy Most) in St. Petersburg.

During this special summer event, the competitive program of animated shorts from all over the world will be presented on gigantic screens to an excited audience in both cities.

The films for the competition are selected by Multivision in collaboration with KLIK!.

films in competition:

My mum is an aeroplane – Julia Aronova

Variety – Roelof van den Bergh

It's A Dog's Life – Julie Rembauville and Nicolas Bianco-Levrin

Lap me up – Dmitry Visotskiy and Vadim Dulenko

Odd Sound Out – Pernille Sihm

Macropolis – Joel Simon

Time to go – Darcy Prendergast and Seamus Spilsbury

The butterfly effect – Dan Sumich

Linear – Amir Admoni

Snapshot – Arthur van Merwijk

Out from the Deep – Katrin Novakovic

Yonalure:moment to moment – Ayaka Nakata

Facepad – Antoine Géré

El Empleo – Santiago Bou Grasso

Things you'd better not mix up – Joost Lieuwma

To make the connection complete the audience in Amsterdam will be connected live with the audience in St. Petersburg by telebridge.

**Date: July 19th, 2013

Entry: Free

Time: 11 p.m.

Location: Magere Brug

Amstel 81

Amsterdam**

We hope you join us at the Magere Brug for some great open-air animation and chilled drinks by Eetcafe Magere Brug on that hot summer night!

Additionally KLIK! is hosting several exciting events about Russian animation at the Hermitage Amsterdam on Saturday and Sunday.

See the website of Hermitage Amsterdam for more information: www.hermitage.nl.

In collaboration with VideoDom KLIK! makes a Best-Of tour to Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novogorad, Moscow and Ekaterineburg throughout March 2013. Follow klikker Mathijs and Job from animation trio Job, Joris en Marieke on Facebook!

The 5th edition of the KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival will take place from the 7th until the 11th of November in its spectacular new location: EYE, the new filmmuseum! The finest animated films will be served up, along with the most eloquent masterclasses, theme programs on violence in animation, a plethora of special guests for all your Q&A needs, parties that will become legendary, music to soothe your ears, special stereoscopic animation, a lot of pleasant surprises and much, much more.

The future of KLIK! looks so shiny that we’re wearing shades – thanks to your awesomeness, our target amount at Voordekunst.nl has almost been reached! In order to celebrate and to have one last push towards our crowdfunding goal, we’re throwing a cosy get-together July 1st, at Amsterdams funnest pub De Nieuwe Anita.

De Nieuwe Anita was the very first location of KLIK! and got the festival it’s patented party spirit which is still there today. So it’s only fitting that this will be the location for the exclusive preview on what’s coming up in the 5th edition at EYE in November this year… That’s right, our KLIK! programmers have put together a small sneak peek, garnished with some animated delight and drenched in a sauce of cinematic enthusiasm as they will personally illuminate their choices.

But that’s not all! Prepare for an Epic Cupcake Bake-Off as two of our KLIK! crewmembers fight for your vote in a battle of sugar, spice and everything nice! Are you going to support the Cool Blue Team Daniela or the Sultry Pink Team Lesley? You can decide in the Baking Battle of the Century! Besides delicious cupcakes, we’ll be serving snacks, we’ll have music to soothe your ears and we’ll have a couple of surprises up our sleeves as well.

KLIK! Voordekunst Crowdfunding Closing Event

Sunday the 1st of July, doors open at 3 PM, screenings start at 4 PM, snacks from 6PM

At De Nieuwe Anita in Amsterdam (15 min from CS by tram 13 or 17 or city bus 18 or 21)

Contribution starts at €5, feel free to donate more of course