Gregg Araya
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Los Angeles California USA |
Contact Type: Artist |
| web: http://www.gregaraya.com/html/crimenals.html | |
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Bio:
Gregory Araya made his first animated film at age eleven. By moving paper cutouts around on a bedsheet, he dramatized the Earth’s entire natural history from its fiery creation to its (fiery) destruction, on one roll of 8mm film. He received a BFA in Illustration from The Savannah College of Art and Design in 1992, and had a brief career in mural painting and prop-fabrication in Chicago before being wooed away to work for the computers as part of San Francisco’s multimedia explosion. Greg’s work has been featured in Harper’s and RES magazines, and can be heard on various punk-rock recordings. His animation work for hire has been plugged into videogames, internet, and television, and has played on screens ranging from tiny keitai displays to massive arena Jumbotrons. Recent experiences include teaching animation to high-school students, and working in Japan for a Tokyo Broadcast System/Panasonic Corporation collaboration. Currently a student of the MFA Animation Program at University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television, Greg has made the short films Rest In Peace, Interstate Bellyache, and Shake Your Candy Machine. He is currently in production on his Thesis film, a hand-drawn lucha- libre/hot rod/horror picture. Crimenals is an experimental animated film. By reconstituting a collage of picture and sound elements, it both homages and spoofs the hard-boiled detective genre, and takes a whimsical turn on narrative storytelling. Selected work: Rest In Peace, 2001, 16mm Interstate Bellyache, 2001, Video Shake Your Candy Machine, 2002, Video Crimenals, 2003, Video/35mm Filmography/Awards Info: This Contact appears in this database if Microcinema International has screened a film directed by the Contact, a film directed by the contact is featured in a DVD distributed by the Blackchair Collection Shop, or featured an organization or activity linked with the Contact. This database is used for commercial as well as informational, non-commercial purposes. It is a historical archive of Microcinema International's activities. Inclusion in this database and archive in no way implies a continuing formal relationship or affiliation with Microcinema International or the Blackchair Label nor an endorsement of its activities by the Contact. Contact details are not displayed in order to protect privacy. If you wish to contact this artist please see their website as listed above or write Microcinema International and we will be happy to forward your e-mail.
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