Walley Night

World Premiere of "Adagio" by Clive Walley

Real Institute presents the World Premiere of 'Adagio' the new film from Wales' leading animation artist Clive Walley in a night of international short film. In this unique collaboration, Real Institute also invites Walley to select the ten short films which have profoundly influenced him and his work..

Amongst the films specially selected by Walley for the evening are:

George Drumming's 1962 prescurser to Yellow Submarine 'The Flying Man'
Oscar Fischinger's classic 'Motion Painting No.1'
Norman McLaren's 'Be Gone Dull Cares¹ featuring the Oscar Peterson Trio
Welsh animator and Walley contemporary Paul Bush's 'Furniture Poetry' and 'Jeckel and Hyde'.

In this evening of international short film, Real Institute celebrates the work of Wales’ leading animation artist who has decided to leave Wales after living in Llanfairfechan for 35 years. Walley feels that the wealth of professional brilliance in Welsh animation is not sufficiently recognised within Wales itself.

Walley has attracted many international awards over the years, including the British Animation Awards ‘Cutting Edge’ and Avanca 97 ‘Best Animation’, as he dedicated his life to animation produced in the heart of rural north Wales.

Walley has become known for his distinctive use of animated artist’s paints, a technique he describes as "moving painting". These works are often influenced by his Welsh hillside surroundings and ask uncompromising questions of the relationship between paint, space and time. In ‘Adagio’ lively paint moves through a filmed Welsh landscape.

For ‘WalleyNight’, the artist also selects ten other short films which have influenced him and his work including ‘The Flying Man’ George Drumming's precursor to ‘Yellow Submarine’, Norman McLaren's influential 'Be Gone Dull Cares’ and welsh contemporary Paul Bush’s acclaimed 'Furniture Poetry'

Walley personally introduces each film and is also available for informal chat and chocolate cake consumption. Tying the evening together is wry comic compere Bedwyr Williams alongside possibly pertinent muzak from DJ SofaHead.

Asked about why he agreed to premiere his new film with Real Institute, Walley said "its the first in my life I’ve felt that there is a group of enthusiastic, sensitive and knowledgeable people who not only know what they’re doing but, in a rather strange way, really excite me when they’re doing it."

Sgrîn, who have made the evening possible through a grant from the Cinema Exhibition Support Fund, and who are also one of the funders of Adagio, are delighted that the Real Institute will be the location for the world premiere.

PRESS RELEASE - Release date: 7.10.02