Luigi Allemano, MAA

Associate Professor, Film Animation Undergraduate Program, Cinema

Biography    Research activities    Teaching activities    Filmography    Participation activities    Accolades    Film festivals   

Luigi Allemano is a Montreal-based animation filmmaker, composer and sound designer. Allemano's animation, music and sound design appear in more than fifty productions of the National Film Board of Canada, four of which have received Academy Award nominations. Since 2009, Allemano has held full-time faculty appointments at Concordia University's Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema where he lectures on animation filmmaking, analog and digital animation techniques and sound for animation. Allemano's research interests include philosophy of improvisation in visual art and music, methodologies of pre-cinematic animation and contemporary approaches to visual music composition.

Education

MAA (Media Arts), Governor General's Gold Medal, Emily Carr University of Art and Design (2013)
BFA (Film Animation), Emily Carr University of Art and Design (1997)
Diploma (Music Performance), MacEwan University (1990)

Areas of expertise

film animation, music composition, sound for film

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Paper presentations

Towards a Pedagogy of Animated Visual Music Composition. 29th Society for Animation Studies Conference. University of Padova, Italy. 2017 (upcoming).

Animation and Improvisation. 26th Society for Animation Studies Conference. Sheridan College, Toronto. 2014.

Silent and Still: Origins of Visual Music. Understanding Visual Music Conference. Concordia University, Montréal. 2011.

Conference panel discussions

Experiments in 3-D: Norman McLaren. Society for Cinema & Media Studies. Concordia University, Montreal. 2015.

Consultation

Norman McLaren: Animated Musician. Luigi's research in the area of optical 'animated sound' is a primary contribution to the NFB documentary Norman McLaren: Animated Musician (2014).

NFB iPad app McLaren's Workshop. Luigi's consultation and research contribute to the Synthetic Sound module of the NFB iPad app McLaren's Workshop (2013)

Undergraduate Courses

2016-17
FMAN340 Sound for Animated Film
FMAN402 Animation III
2015-16
FMAN340 Sound for Animated Film

Graduate Courses

2015-16
FMPR610 Film Production I

Graduate Students Thesis Supervisor

2016-17
MFA Film Production candidate Marie-Josee Archambault
MFA Film Production candidate Stanila Syarova
MFA Studio Arts Printmaking candidate Etienne Rochon
MFA Film Production candidate Shaghayegh Yassemi
2015-16
MFA Film Production recipient Alisi Telengut

Filmography

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Workshops

16mm Animated Sound Workshops. Edinburgh, Glasgow and Sterling Scotland. June, 2014.

Awards and Nominations

2015 Canadian Screen Awards: Nomination - Best Animated Short
2014 Dérapage Festival: Award - Best Animation
2013 Governor General's Gold Medal, Highest Academic Standing in Graduate Studies, Emily Carr University of Art and Design

Screenings

Improvisation no. 1: Cumulative Loops

Melbourne International Animation Festival 2015 – Melbourne, Australia

Cardiff Animation Nights 2014 – Cardiff, UK

Concierto de Música Visual en Noviembre electrónico 2014 - CEIArtE, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Ottawa International Animation Festival 2014 - Ottawa, Canada

Edinburgh International Film Festival 2014 - Edinburgh, Scotland UK

Dérapage 14 Festival 2014 - Montréal, Canada  *WINNER - BEST ANIMATION

Les Sommets du Cinéma d'Animation 2013 - Montréal, Canada

Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation 2013 - Chicago, Brooklyn, USA,- Stockholm, Sweden - Mali Losinj, Croatia