Deanna Morse | |
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Born | [1] Sioux City, Iowa, U.S. | February 26, 1950
Nationality | American |
Known for | Animation |
Deanna Morse is an independent American experimental filmmaker and media artist.[1][2][3] Her work is included in collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[4][5][6]
For the period of 2022–2024[update], she is president of the International Animated Film Association.[7] She has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 2020.[8][9][10]
Morse graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in telecommunicative arts and distributed studies in 1972. She received an M.A. in film and teaching at Goddard College, and in 1992 received a Master of Fine Arts (art and technology), with a merit scholarship from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[citation needed] In 1995, she was awarded an outstanding alumni award by Iowa State University.[11] [12]
After graduation she became an assistant editor at WGBH-TV in Boston,[13][14] and also worked as a scriptwriter for the Virginia Department of Education,[13] and on a series about desegregation for Virginia PBS. She was then hired as an artist in residence for the South Carolina Arts Commission,[13] where she taught for four years, and was filmmaker-in-schools in 1975–1976.[14][15]
She taught at the College of Charleston, at Regis College, and then at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, for thirty-three years, retiring as an Emerita Professor in 2013.[16] During her time at GVSU, she released the retrospective and interactive DVD Move Click Move in 2001[17] and used the proceeds to fund scholarships.[16] There she also created, together with some of her students, a Flash animation for the international participatory project Flag Metamorphoses[18]
Her film Lost Ground was part of the 1992 SIGGRAPH Art Show.[19] She was chair of the SIGGRAPH 1994 Art and Design Show,[20] and a juror for the art show in 1998.[21][22]
She has judged festivals and computer graphics competitions including the Hiroshima International Animation Festival[23] in Japan and the Ann Arbor Film Festival.[24]
She has published articles in Animation World Network.[25][26][27][28]
She has made several films for Sesame Street,[3][2] including Dogs (1991),[1] Monkey's T-Shirt (1991),[1][29] and Night Sounds (1992).[1][2]
Hyperallergic wrote about her 1989 animated film Plants that "The play of light, color, line, and shape can be mesmerizing ... vegetal patterns move and spin to evoke plants".[30] Plants was also reviewed by the Chicago Reader, which noted that she " ... creates still-life portraits of flowers using rudimentary (but then-sophisticated) computer drawing tools".[31]
Year | Film | Format |
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2017 | Clear, Deep, Quiet |
Video installation |
2015 | Angels in Maui |
DVD |
2015 | Bird Dreams |
DVD |
2014 | Animation Collaboration |
DVD |
2014 | Perch |
DVD |
2013 | Mindful |
DVD |
2013 | Whispers of the Prairie |
DVD[29] |
2013 | This present moment |
DVD |
2012 | Skin |
DVD |
2012 | Kindred |
DVD |
2012 | Skies of Mist |
DVD |
2011 | Wish you were here |
DVD |
2010 | Traces of Light |
DVD |
2009 | Breathing Room |
Video installation[1] |
2009 | Ancient Woodland |
DVD |
2007 | Forced Perspective: Odessa |
DVD |
2007 | Time Flights |
Video installation[1] |
2007 | Postcards from my backyard |
DVD[1][29] |
2002 | Kitchen Creature Feature |
Film[2] |
2001 | Move Click Move: a DVD Compilation |
DVD[2] |
2000 | A Mother's Advice |
Film[2] |
1993 | Digital Aquarium |
Video installation |
1992 | Lost ground |
Computer animation[2] |
1992 | Sandpaintings |
Film |
1991 | Self Portrait: Artist With Pets |
Film |
1991 | Dogs |
Film |
1991 | Night Sounds: Imagination |
Film |
1991 | From The Sand |
Video installation |
1990 | The A.M. Dream |
Computer animation[2] |
1990 | Monkey's T-Shirt |
Film[29] |
1989 | Plants |
Film[30][31] |
1991 | Artist In The Schools |
Film |
1988 | Main Street M |
Film |
1987 | The Lumberyard |
Film |
1985 | August Afternoons |
Film[1][2] |
1984 | Camera People |
Film |
1982 | Hand |
Film[1] |
1981 | Reality Check |
Film[2] |
1981 | Recycle |
Film |
1981 | Help!...I'm Stranded... |
Film |
1980 | Charleston Home Movie |
Film[1] |
1978 | Starcycle |
Film[2] |
1978 | Jimmy Brown The Newsboy |
Film |
1978 | Ranky Tanky |
Film |
1978 | Cats At The Door |
Film |
1975 | The Midnight Dance |
Film |
1972 | Marriages |
Film |
1972 | Dejeunez, Mon Amour |
Film |