"Once you have a conflict, you have a story," Berlin/Stuttgart-based animator Gil Alkabetz told an audience of young filmmakers at the National Film Board of Canada yesterday. And this adage was evident in most of his own work since the mid-80s that he showed. Asked how the conflict around his native Israel influences his work, the animation professor (of "Run Lola Run" fame) admitted that conflict and strife seem to creep into his work more subconsciously than intentionally.Co-presented by TAIS and the Goethe-Institut, Alkabetz visited Ottawa and Toronto, where the audience (from as far afield as India) quizzed him intensely on the artistic as well as the technical and commercial aspects of his craft, from storyboards to music rights.
by Jutta Brendemühl, Goethe-Institut Toronto
