Deanna Morse Explained
Deanna Morse is an independent American experimental filmmaker and media artist.[1] Her work is included in collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[2] [3] [4]
For the period of, she is president of the International Animated Film Association.[5] She has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 2020.[6] [7] [8]
Early life and education
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. In 1995, she was awarded an outstanding alumni award by Iowa State University.[9] [10]
Career
After graduation she became an assistant editor at WGBH-TV in Boston, and also worked as a scriptwriter for the Virginia Department of Education, and on a series about desegregation for Virginia PBS. She was then hired as an artist in residence for the South Carolina Arts Commission,[11] where she taught for four years, and was filmmaker-in-schools in 1975–1976.[12] [13]
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.[14] During her time at GVSU, she released the retrospective and interactive DVD Move Click Move in 2001[15] and used the proceeds to fund scholarships.[14] There she also created, together with some of her students, a Flash animation for the international participatory project Flag Metamorphoses[16]
Her film Lost Ground was part of the 1992 SIGGRAPH Art Show.[17] She was chair of the SIGGRAPH 1994 Art and Design Show,[18] and a juror for the art show in 1998.[19] [20]
She has judged festivals and computer graphics competitions including the Hiroshima International Animation Festival[21] in Japan and the Ann Arbor Film Festival.[22]
She has published articles in Animation World Network.[23] [24] [25] [26]
Filmography
She has made several films for Sesame Street,[27] including Dogs (1991),[1] Monkey's T-Shirt (1991),[1] [28] and Night Sounds (1992).[1]
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".[29] 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".[30]
| Year | Film | Format |
|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 2009 | Ancient Woodland
| DVD |
| 2007 | Forced Perspective: Odessa
| DVD |
| 2007 | Time Flights
| Video installation |
| 2007 | Postcards from my backyard
| DVD |
| 2002 | Kitchen Creature Feature
| Film |
| 2001 | Move Click Move: a DVD Compilation
| DVD[31] |
| 2000 | A Mother's Advice
| Film |
| 1993 | Digital Aquarium
| Video installation |
| 1992 | Lost ground
| Computer animation |
| 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 |
| 1990 | Monkey's T-Shirt
| Film |
| 1989 | Plants
| Film |
| 1991 | Artist In The Schools
| Film |
| 1988 | Main Street M
| Film |
| 1987 | The Lumberyard
| Film |
| 1985 | August Afternoons
| Film |
| 1984 | Camera People
| Film |
| 1982 | Hand
| Film |
| 1981 | Reality Check
| Film |
| 1981 | Recycle
| Film |
| 1981 | Help!...I'm Stranded...
| Film |
| 1980 | Charleston Home Movie
| Film |
| 1978 | Starcycle
| Film |
| 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 | |
Awards
- 1993 - Named a distinguished professor by the Michigan Association of Governing Boards of State Universities.[32]
- 1995 - Outstanding Alumni Award from Iowa State University[33]
- 2002 - Addy Award for Move Click Move DVD[34]
- 2003 - Omni Award for Move Click Move DVD[35]
- 2005 - Selected as an outstanding woman in the arts by the YWCA[36]
- 2015 - Hyperion Award, 9th Eclipse Awards honoring Michigan's filmmakers and television creators[37]
- Honored in the Plaza of Heroines at Carrie Chapman Catt Hall at Iowa State University.[38]
Further reading
- Giannalberto Bendazzi: ANIMATION: A World History, Volume 3, Contemporary Times, 2015. P. 46: Women in the Limelight, Deanna Morse[39]
- Karen Sullivan, Kate Alexander, Aubry Mintz and Ellen Besen: Ideas for the Animated Short: Finding and Building Stories, Focal Press, 2013, pages 139–141[40]
- Juliet Davis: Review of MOVE-CLICK-MOVE by Deanna Morse, Journal of Film and Video, winter 2006.[41]
- Pilling, Jayne, ed: Women and Animation: a Compendium. British Film Institute, 1992.
- Russett, Robert; Starr, Cecile: Experimental Animation, origins of a new art. Da Capo Press, New York, N.Y., 1988. (p. 22-23)
External links
Notes and References
- Book: Bendazzi . Giannalberto . Animation: A World History: Volume III: Contemporary Times . 2015 . CRC Press . 9781317519881 . 46 . 24 November 2019.
- https://faculty.gvsu.edu/morsed/MoveClickMove/GRPress1.html Morse on cutting edge of filmmaking, Grand Rapids Press, November 9, 2001
- N.Y. Museum Adds Local Film To Collection, Grand Rapids Press, November 2, 1986
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/20688539?seq=1 MOVE-CLICK-MOVE by Deanna Morse, Review by Juliet Davis, Journal of Film and Video, Vol. 58, No. 4, winter 2006
- http://www.asifa.net/board-members ASIFA: Board Members
- https://www.oscars.org/news/academy-invites-819-membership Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: new members in 2020
- https://www.gvsu.edu/gvnext/2020/vma-faculty-member-emerita-joins-academy-of-motion-picture-arts-and-sciences.htm Grand Valley State University: VMA faculty member emerita joins Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, August 5, 2020
- https://lanthorn.com/76450/ae/gv-professor-emeritus-joins-the-academy-of-motion-picture-arts-and-sciences/ Grand Valley Lanthorn: Professor Emeritus joins the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- https://alumni.las.iastate.edu/awards/citation-of-merit/ Iowa State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Alumni: Citation of Merit
- https://plaza.las.iastate.edu/directory/deanna-morse/ Iowa State University, Plaza of Heroines: Deanna Morse
- News: Filmmaker Head Named for S.C. . 24 November 2019 . The Times and Democrat . 18 November 1974 . Orangeburg, South Carolina . 5B.
- News: Super 8 Films Featured . 24 November 2019 . The Greenville News . 23 May 1976 . Greenville, South Carolina . 16B.
- News: Todd . Sharon . Artistic Uses Of Film Explored . 24 November 2019 . The Greenville News . 6 June 1975 . Greenville, South Carolina . 43.
- Web site: Deanna Morse Says Goodbye . dot[COMM] The Official Blog of Grand Valley State University's School of Communications . 24 November 2019 . 29 April 2013.
- https://www.cfmdc.org/film/2740 Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre: DVD Move Click Move
- http://www.flag-metamorphoses.net/flag-animation.html Flag Metamorphoses, 2005-2014
- https://digitalartarchive.siggraph.org/artwork/deanna-morse-lost-ground/ SIGGRAPH 1992: Art Show
- https://digitalartarchive.siggraph.org/exhibition/siggraph-1994-art-and-design-show/ SIGGRAPH 1994: Art and Design Show
- https://digitalartarchive.siggraph.org/exhibition/siggraph-1998-touchware/ SIGGRAPH 1998: Touchware
- https://digitalartarchive.siggraph.org/exhibition/siggraph-1999-technoasis/ SIGGRAPH 1999: technOasis
- https://eng.hiroanim.org/en2018/e02about/past07e.php Hiroshima International Animation Festival Juror, August 1998
- https://aadl.org/aaff/aaff_41_program 41st Ann Arbor Film Festival Juror, March 2003
- https://www.awn.com/mag/issue3.11/3.11pages/morseiwai.php3 Pre-Cinema Toys Inspire Multimedia Artist Toshio Iwai, Animation World Magazine, February 1999
- https://www.awn.com/animationworld/secrets-selection-committee-zagreb-animafest-2004 Secrets from the Selection Committee: Zagreb Animafest 2004, Animation World Network, June 14, 2004
- https://www.awn.com/animationworld/love-and-peace-hiroshima-international-animation-festival-2006 Love and Peace: Hiroshima International Animation Festival 2006, Animation World Network, September 14, 2006
- https://www.awn.com/animationworld/animation-ann-arbor-film-fest-bending-minds-and-uncensored-1963 Animation at the Ann Arbor Film Fest: Bending Minds and... Uncensored... Since 1963, Animation World Network, April 25, 2007
- Book: Sullivan . Karen . Schumer . Gary . Ideas for the Animated Short: Finding and Building Stories . 2013 . Taylor & Francis . 9781136141973 . 139–141 . 2nd, revised . 24 November 2019.
- News: 27 March 2019. Let's Watch with the Ann Arbor Film Festival - Deanna Morse. CTN Ann Arbor. 24 November 2019.
- Larkin . Daniel . A Taste of Four Decades on the Fringes of Animation. December 9, 2015. Hyperallergic . Brooklyn, New York.
- Web site: Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation. Ben. Sachs. Chicago Reader. 5 November 2015 .
- Davis . Juliet . Reviewed Work: MOVE-CLICK-MOVE by Deanna Morse . Journal of Film and Video . Winter 2006 . 58 . 4 . 46–48 . University of Illinois Press on behalf of the University Film & Video Association. 20688539 .
- https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1037&context=forum17 Grand Valley Forum, Volume 17, No. 39, May 1993
- https://alumni.las.iastate.edu/awards/citation-of-merit/ Iowa State University, Citation of Merit, Recipients
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07x9fnW8fWA YouTube: Video News Release announcing the Addy award for the animation collection Move Click Move
- https://www.cfmdc.org/filmmaker/1241 Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre: Deanna Morse
- https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/84285545.pdf Grand Valley Forum, Volume 30, No. 14, October 2005
- Web site: 2015 Hyperion Award . The 9th Eclipse Awards . 1 December 2019.
- Web site: Deanna Morse .
- https://books.google.com/books?id=dZvhCgAAQBAJ ANIMATION: A World History, Volume 3 at Google Books
- https://www.routledge.com/Ideas-for-the-Animated-Short-Finding-and-Building-Stories/Sullivan-Alexander-Mintz-Besen/p/book/9780240818726 Karen Sullivan, Kate Alexander, Aubry Mintz, Ellen Besen: Ideas for the Animated Short: Finding and Building Stories
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/20688539?seq=1 Journal of Film and Video, Vol. 58, No. 4 (winter 2006), University of Illinois Press, pp. 46-48
