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The Jules Engel Preservation Project

When Jules Engel passed away in September 2003, he left behind a legacy of more than thirty-three personal films and thousands of animation drawings. The Jules Engel Preservation Project was established in 2003 to insure archival conservation of his work. Through the support of individual contributions and institutional grants, and anchored by leadership funding provided by the National Film Preservation Foundation, the project enabled the preservation of several short films after his death: Coaraze, Accident, Mobiles, Three Arctic Flowers, Celebration, Play-Pen, Times Square and Landscape, plus cataloging, triage and cold storage for many of his original film elements and new preservation materials.

In recognition of Jules' brilliant career as educator and artist, CalArts became a major supportor of this effort to preserve his legacy. The work of the project fulfills the commitments, made individually and on the part of our community to our friend, mentor, collaborator and inspiration, and guarantees that his achievement will be available to future generations of students, scholars and cinema lovers everywhere.

Many new preserved prints were screened at the Jules Engel Retrospective Tribute at the REDCAT Theatre in Los Angeles on November 23, 2003, presented by Cal Arts and Center for Visual Music.

      Photo by Chris Meeks

 

The Jules Engel Preservation Project thanks The National Film Preservation Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Estate of Jules Engel, CalArts, iotaCenter.

Additional thanks are extended to: Audio Mechanics, Chace Audio, Cinema Arts, Cineric, DJ Audio, Janeann Dill, David Ehrlich, Ruth Hayes, Stephen Hillenburg, Dr. William Moritz, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, NOMI Group, Christine Panushka, Lorelei Pepi and the Rochester Institute of Technology, School of Film and Animation, Sheila Sofian, and other individual donors.

Thanks to those who contributed to and made possible the preservation of Coaraze (1965): California Institute of the Arts, Steve Anker, Henry & L.I. Anderson, David Berry, Beth Block, Dave Bossert, Betzy Bromberg, Janeann Dill, Mark Dornfield, John Duganne III, James Hart, Michael Hartzog, Shayne Hood/Michael Scroggins, Dorne Huebler, Rachelle Katz, Stanley Levine, Lisa Mann/John Endievri, Christine Moreno, Mark Osborne, Michael Pressman, Marc Ratner, Socki Family, Steve Subotnick/Amy Kravitz, Doug Vitarelli, and Ellen Woodbury.

Courtesy Tobey C. Moss

 

The Jules Engel Preservation Project
c/o Center for Visual Music
453 S. Spring Street, Suite 834, Los Angeles, CA 90013
213-683-1514
CVMarchive@gmail.com

Links:

Jules Engel Tribute in Animation World Magazine online

Biography, paintings at Tobey C. Moss Gallery

Biography/PR - Cal Arts

Program for Jules Engel Tribute, Redcat Theatre, Los Angeles, Nov. 23, 2003 (pdf). Presented by Center for Visual Music and Cal Arts.

Dill, Janeann. Jules Engel, The Mentor. Animation World Magazine, May 1999

Jules Engel site - Quicktime interview, artwork and more

Jules Engel: 100 Portraits (April 2003), by Dane Picard (Quicktime)

Obituary, The Guardian, September 17, 2003

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