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	DAVID EHRLICH RR 1. Box 50, Randolph, VT 05060, USA Phone: +1 (802) 234 5401 Fax: +1 (802) 234 5401 E-mail
Biography	Filmography	Screenings

Biography

OEDIPUS AT COLONUS, Ehrlich's 1978 animated sculptural hologram, was the first work of its kind ever shown at the International Animation Festivals in Annecy, France, and Zagreb, Yugoslavia. Ehrlich's 1983 hologram, "RANKO'S FANTASY," had its World Premiere at Zagreb in 1984, where Ehrlich led the First Animated Hologram Symposium. He led the Second Symposium at the Varna (Bulgaria) Animation Festival in 1987. His 1988 piece, "OEDIPUS AT COLONUS NO. 2," was featured in the 1995 Annecy Museum Show, ClNEMAGIE, on the History of Animation.   In the last 20 years, Ehrlich has made over 30 independent abstract animated films that have been shown and awarded in film festivals throughout the world and have gone on tour through the American Federation on the Arts, The International Tournees of Animation, and the "Best of Annecy and Zagreb". Ehrlich was given film retrospectives at the Umwelt Galerie in Stuttgart, the Shanghai and Cinanima (Portugal) Animation Festivals, the Sinking Creek FiIm Celebration, and in New York, at the Animators Gallery, the Museum of the Moving Image and the Museum of Modern Art. His complete works are held in the collections of MoMA, Pacific Film Archives, the ASIFA Archive in Berlln, and the International Animation Library in Tokyo. Ehrlich was invited to serve on the jurles of the Stuttgart Animation Festivel and the Shanghai Animation Festival. He is a recipient of grants from the American FiIm Institute (1988), Arts International (1992), the Holographic FiIm Foundation (1988, 1983, 1984) and the Vermont Council on the Arts (1978-91). One of the leaders of the American Independent Animatlon movement, Ehrlich curated and introduced several shows of American Independents for audiences in Europe and Asia and has written widely on his generation's work.   In 1988, he was elected to the Board of Directors of ASIFA, the International Animators Association and in 1991 became its Vice-President, an office he continued to hold for six years. His internatlonal work on behalf of ASIFA has taken several forms. During the last 15 years, he has brought to North America over 20 animation artists from throughout the world, and has organized and led their screening tours through museums, universities and cultural centers. Ehrlich has also produced a number of international animation collaborations. In 1985, he co-directed "PERPETUAL REVIVAL" with Dr. A. Petringenaru from Bucharest, in what was the first Joint film project between the U.S. and Romania. In 1987, he produced and co-directed "ACADEMY LEADER VARIATIONS," a unique animated collaboration by artists from Poland, China, Switzerland, and the U.S. that won a Special Jury Prize in Animated Shorts at Cannes. In 1989, he produced and co-directed "ANIMATED SELF-PORTRAITS," an animated collaboration by artists from Japan, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Estonia and the U.S that made the Short List for the Oscars. Both of these two films had wide distribution in the International Tournees of Animation and on TV here and abroad. In 1993, Ehrlich produced "GENGHIZ KHAN', the first known U.S./ Mongolian co-production, an animatlon on which he had been working with a Mongolian colleague ever since liberalization in Ulan Bator.   Since 1978, Ehrlich has been teaching animation workshops for thousands of chiIdren in Vermont, New Hampshire, Hawaii and California. FiIms from these workshops are in the collections of fifteen countries and have been shown on cable and public-TV. He has also led workshops for chiIdren in Europe, Asia, and throughout the U.S., and in 1987, produced "THE ASIFA CHILDREN'S FILM", an international animation collaboration by children in nine countries that was the first chiIdren-made animation ever included in a professional theatrical package: THE SECOND ANIMATION CELEBRATION. His further work on behalf of ASIFA has led Ehrlich to organize and direct the finst chiIdren's animation workshops in Havana (1991), Shanghai (1988), Ulan Bator(1992) and Karachi(1993) and to this day, there are permanent ongoing workshops there. He then facilitated the collaboration between the chiIdren in Shanghai and Ulan Bator which resulted in the finst Mongolian/Chinese co-production. His work with children in Hawaii, China and Croatia was featured in 1994 segments of NlCKELODEON's "U TO U".   Ehrlich has taught at SUNY, Purchase, the University of Vermont, the Vt. Governor's Institute on the Arts and MRDH College in Norway, and since 1993 has been Visiting Professor of Film Studies at Dartmouth College. Ehrlich's Dartmouth students have gone on to win recognition around the world, including the 1996 Student Acedemy Award in Animation. For the Annecy Animation Festival in June of '97, Ehrlich was invited to curate and present a special program of "Young American Animators" from colleges throughout the U.S.   Ehrlich has written over 50 articles on his work with chiIdren, with animated holography, and with international animators, and he has served on the Editorial Board of THE ANIMATION JOURNAL since its founding in 1991. A certified Expressive Therapist (NETA), Ehrlich has written "THE BOWEL BOOK" for Schocken Press and is presently completing "THE CREATIVITY BOOK". When not travelling, he still lives and works in Randolph, Vermont with his wife.

Filmography

ALBUM LEAF (1976:1-1/2min), EXHIBIT (1976: 2min), METAMORPHOSIS (1976:4min),ROBOT (1977:3min), VERMONT ETUDE (1977:3min), ROBOT TWO (1979:2-1/2min), VERMONT ETUDE. NO. 2 (1979:4min), PRECIOUS METAL (1980:4min), FANTASIES; ANIMATION OF VERMONT SCHOOLCHILDREN (1981:10min), DISSIPATIVE DIALOGUES (1982:3min), PRECIOUS METAL VARIATIONS(1983:3'40"), POINT (1984:3min), DISSIPATIVE FANTASIES (1986:4-1/2min), PERPETUAL REVIVAL (1986:7min; with A. Petringenaru, Romania). PIXEL (1987:3min), ACADEMY LEADER VARIATIONS (1987:6min). Producer and co-director with 19 animators from U.S., Poland, China, Switzerland). DRYADS (1988:3min). AMNESTY iNTERNATIONAL (1988:12". director of segment). ANIMATED SELF-PORTRAITS (1989:8min. producer and co-director with 18 other animators from U.S., Japan, Estonia(USSR), Czechoslovakia, Yugaslavia). A CHILD'S DREAM (1990:5min), CHAOS UNBOUND (1991:2'15", co-directed with Kjersti Normann, Norway), DANCE OF NATURE (1991:3'30", co-directed with Karin Johansen Sletten, Norway), MOVEABLE WORDS (1992:4min, co-directed with Marlo Garcia-Montes, Cuba), DAVID'S FABLES: PART ONE (1993:4min), GENGHIZ KHAN (1993:8min, Producer), ETUDE (1994:4min), NO MORE AIDS (1994:15") (Director of segment), INTERSTITIAL WAVESCAPES (1995:3'10"), RATITATI (1995:5'30"), ROBOT RERUN (1996:4'45" ) ASIFA VARIATIONS (1997:2'45"), RADIANT FLUX (1999: 3'30"), COLOR RUN (2001:7'), TAKING COLOR FOR A WALK (2002:5'), CURRENT EVENTS (2002:4'). ANIMATED HOLOGRAMS (All 360 integrams) OEDIPUS AT COLONUS (1978), RANKO'S FANTASY (1983). PHALLACY (1984). OEDIPUS AT COLONUS, NO. 2 (1987).

One Person Screenings

Ottawa International Animation Festival (2002) Ballargues Animation Festival, France (1998) San Francisco Cinematheque (1991) Baltimore FiIm Forum, Maryland (1990) Cinanima Animation Festival, Espinho, Portugal (1990) Portland Art Museum, Oregon (1989) Shanghai Animated Film Festival, China (1988) Pacific Film Archives. Berkeley, California (1988) Museum of Modern Art, Cineprobe, New York (1987) Belgrade FiIm Institute, Yugoslavia (1987) Varna Animation Festival, Bulgaria (1987) Sinking Creek Film Celebration, Nashville, Tennessee (1986) Vienna Art Academy, Austria (1984, 1986) Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, New York (1985) Torino Cultural Center, Italy (1984) Cakovec Cultural Center, Yugoslavia (1984) Florida School of the Arts, Palatka (1981) Animators Gallery, New York (1981) Umwelt Galerie, Stuttgart, West Germany (1979)