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Learn how a collective of very talented beings worked together to produce Universal Everything's latest exhibition. 'Beings' opens on Wed 22 May 2024 at ACMI in Melbourne.
00:00 Why is the studio called Universal Everything?
00:19 The history of Universal Everything
02:00 Production processes
03:04 It all starts with a sketch
03:38 Collaboration and experimentation
05:50 The underlying technology
06:46 Soulful technology
07:17 Sound design of We Are All Unique
08:20 Creating Kinfolk
09:48 Pareidolia and connecting with people
Learn more about the Beings exhibition:
https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/beings/
Universal Everything is a collective of media artists, experience designers and future makers, established in 2004. A life affirming, future positive, audience focused approach spans their artworks, brand collaborations and prototypes. Using emerging display technologies as their canvas, the studio creates digital experiences that subvert cinematic CGI, physics simulations and real-time generative design to create new forms of moving image, interaction and immersive spaces. The studio has exhibited solo shows at V&A London,180 Strand and Science Museum London, La Gaite Lyrique Paris and Borusan Contemporary Istanbul. Group shows include those at MOMA New York, Sundance Film Festival and The Barbican, London. Universal Everything artworks have been added to the permanent collections of organisations including ZKM, Thoma Foundation, Borusan Contemporary and Sifang Art Museum. More at universaleverything.com
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Learn how a collective of very talented beings worked together to produce Universal Everything's latest exhibition. 'Beings' opens on Wed 22 May 2024 at ACMI in Melbourne.
00:00 Why is the studio called Universal Everything?
00:19 The history of Universal Everything
02:00 Production processes
03:04 It all starts with a sketch
03:38 Collaboration and experimentation
05:50 The underlying technology
06:46 Soulful technology
07:17 Sound design of We Are All Unique
08:20 Creating Kinfolk
09:48 Pareidolia and connecting with people
Learn more about the Beings exhibition:
https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/beings/
Universal Everything is a collective of media artists, experience designers and future makers, established in 2004. A life affirming, future positive, audience focused approach spans their artworks, brand collaborations and prototypes. Using emerging display technologies as their canvas, the studio creates digital experiences that subvert cinematic CGI, physics simulations and real-time generative design to create new forms of moving image, interaction and immersive spaces. The studio has exhibited solo shows at V&A London,180 Strand and Science Museum London, La Gaite Lyrique Paris and Borusan Contemporary Istanbul. Group shows include those at MOMA New York, Sundance Film Festival and The Barbican, London. Universal Everything artworks have been added to the permanent collections of organisations including ZKM, Thoma Foundation, Borusan Contemporary and Sifang Art Museum. More at universaleverything.com
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ACMI is Australia's national museum of screen culture. Watch, play, make and discover a universe of films, TV, videogames and screen-based art.
Visit us at Fed Square in Melbourne or online at www.acmi.net.au.
Follow us
Facebook: facebook.com/acmionline
Instagram: instagram.com/acmionline
Twitter: twitter.com/ACMI
www.acmi.net.au
![Frozen director Jennifer Lee [FULL TALK] | Disney: The Magic of Animation](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oxHIVP7osH0/mqdefault.jpg "Frozen director Jennifer Lee [FULL TALK] | Disney: The Magic of Animation
Hear from one of the top minds working in animation today.
Chief Creative Officer of@disneyanimation, Jennifer Lee – best known as the writer and director of the beloved Frozen films – speaks with ACMI Assistant Film Curator Maria Lewis. Go behind the doors of the Walt Disney Animation Studios with Lee as she talks about her career to date, including her inspiration and her experience at Disney.
About Jennifer Lee
Jennifer Lee is the Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS) and is the writer/director of Frozen 2 (2019) and Frozen (2013), the top two highest-grossing animated features ever released.
As Chief Creative Officer, Lee has creative oversight of all films, series, shorts and associated projects from Walt Disney Animation Studios. Lee is executive producer for the critically-acclaimed feature Raya and the Last Dragon and the upcoming November 2021 feature Encanto, in addition to the upcoming Disney+ projects Baymax, Zootopia+, and Iwáju, among others.
Directing the Frozen features with Chris Buck, Lee became the highest-grossing female director of a feature with more than $1.45 billion and $1.27 billion in global box office for Frozen 2 and Frozen, respectively. Frozen 2 received the Humanitas Prize for Feature Film, Family and the Kids’ Choice Award for Animated film, two Annie Awards and a Visual Effects Society Award. Frozen received multiple honours, including two Academy Awards®, the Golden Globe®, BAFTA® Award, PGA Award, five Annie Awards and two GRAMMY® Awards. She can be seen in her CCO role and as writer/director of Frozen 2 in the critically-acclaimed 6-episode series, Into the Unknown: Making Frozen 2 on Disney+.
Lee’s career with Walt Disney Animation Studios began March 2011, when she became the co-writer of 2012’s Oscar®-nominated, arcade-hopping adventure Wreck-It Ralph. For their screenplay, she and Phil Johnston received an Annie Award. She then penned the screenplay for Frozen and went on to direct the film (with Buck). In 2014, for her work on Frozen, Lee was given Women In Film’s Dorothy Arzner Directors Award at the Crystal + Lucy Awards. That same year, she gave a memorable commencement speech at her undergraduate alma mater, University of New Hampshire, and was awarded an honorary doctorate degree.
In 2016, Lee was one of the writers of the story for the Academy Award-winning feature, Zootopia.
Lee was one of the executive producers of 2018’s Oscar-nominated feature Ralph Breaks the Internet. She also wrote the book for Frozen: the Broadway Musical, for which she received a Tony® Award nomination in 2018, as well as adapted the screenplay for the live action feature, A Wrinkle In Time that same year.
Before joining Walt Disney Animation Studios, Lee built a career in book publishing before she pursued screenwriting, entering Columbia University’s graduate Film program in 2001. There she received the William Goldman Award for excellence in screenwriting, and her first feature-length script Hinged on Stars won the Columbia University Film Festival. She graduated in 2005 with an MFA in film.
Lee lives in Los Angeles, California, with her family.
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Learn more about Disney: The Magic of Animation (13 May – 23 Jan 2021) at ACMI:
https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/disney-the-magic-of-animation-exhibition/")
