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In 1995, ITVS (The Independent Television Service) selected Summer
Kitchen Studio to produce a series of short educational spots for
children's public television. Tomlinson created five 30-second
clay-on-glass animated spots, featuring educational messages on topics from
mixing colors to cooperation, which are now being broadcast nationally on
PBS stations. She recently created two spots for Sesame Street and the
Children's Television Workshop, one featuring the letter P, the other on
reading and the imagination. She was profiled in Philadelphia magazine's
"Thirty Under Thirty" issue.
In Philadelphia, her work is seen on WHYY TV-12. Over the past
three years, she has created a variety of different animated ID spots for
the station, in a range of animation styles, including clay-on-glass,
pixilation, xerography, and stop-motion. One of these spots,
"Performance," featuring jazz musicians, received a 1994 Mid-Atlantic Emmy
Award for Outstanding Promotional Announcement, and a Broadcast Design
Association International Bronze award. Her series of animated WHYY-TV12 ID
spots won a PBS National Advertising and Promotion Award, and was an Emmy
nominee for Outstanding Promotional Campaign. Tomlinson's other
commissioned work includes an animated MTV logo and an MTV "Free Your Mind"
spot, segments for a child-care video sponsored by Children's Tylenol, and
a program opening for Wisconsin Sports. She recently produced and created
two advertisements for Green Acres Mall in Long Island, New York. Tomlinson began animating as an undergraduate majoring in English
at Cornell University. She continued her studies in animation at the
University of the Arts in Philadelphia, earning a master's degree. She
also received an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg
School for Communication. Her first film, I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died,
a stirring and eerie interpretation of a poem by Emily Dickinson, won the
animation prize at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Director's Choice in the
Black Maria Festival, and several other awards. It appears on PBS stations
and the BRAVO cable network, and is included on a video collection entitled
Animation of the Apocalypse. Lynn Tomlinson designed, animated, and co-directed the mixed
live-action and animation WHYY Spotlight video, Paper Walls, winner of the
1994 Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award for Outstanding Programming Feature. Inspired
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," Tomlinson
portrays the story of a woman suffering through the "rest cure," prescribed
to hysterical women at turn of the century. Period details create a
setting for the animated projections of the woman's mind. This piece,
supported by the Pew Charitable Trust, won a Corporation for Public
Broadcasting Gold Award for Special Achievement in Television Programming,
a Cine Golden Eagle, and an Emmy nomination for Technical Achievement Cauldron, a five-minute film fully animated in clay-on-glass,
reinterprets a creation myth in colorful organic imagery. Cauldron
received funds from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Pittsburgh
Filmmakers Mid-Atlantic Media Arts Fellowship, and the Philadelphia Film
and Video Association Subsidy Fund. It premiered at the Philadelphia
Festival of World Cinema's Festival of Independents, and aired on WHYY-TV
12's Independent Images Program and WYBE's Through the Lens series. Tomlinson teaches animation at the University of the Arts. She has
directed workshops and presented her films as a visiting artist at Harvard
University, Cornell University, and in a variety of public and private
schools through the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts' Arts in Education
program. She was an animation judge for the University Film and Video
Association Festival, and curated an international animation show called
Life Cycles/Life Lines, including several Oscar-nominated animated shorts,
as a part of the 1995 Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema. She received
a 1996 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship, one of only four film
and video recipients in the state. With these funds she is currently
working on a film called Ripe, a story of transformation, fertility,
anxiety, and pregnancy, inspired by a poem by Sylvia Plath.
Filmography:
Summer Kitchen Animation:
BreakThrough
Cauldron
WHYY-TV12 Animated Station I.D.s
MTV Free Your Mind Spot
Paper Walls
I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died
MTV Logo -- Adventures in a Fishbowl
Z-Rocks
Fire: A Vili Myth
Lynn Tomlinson is an independent experimental animator, specializing in an
unusual animation technique, known as clay-painting or clay-on-glass
animation. By spreading colored modeling clay on a light table, she creates
images that are vibrant, tactile, and colorful -- like moving finger
paintings or animated stained glass. Tomlinson's films are remarkable for
their painterly quality and the interesting transformations and
metamorphoses from one scene to the next. She directs her own animation
production company, Summer Kitchen Studio, located in rolling Pennsylvania
farmland, about an hour west of Philadelphia.
P's Please
Clay-on-glass, 1995, 1:15 and 45 secs.
Two spots for Sesame Street, the letter P, and early literacy and imagination.
The Same Moon, A Smart Crow, Mixing Colors, Water, & Frog Harmony
Clay-on-glass, 1995, 30 secs. each
Funded by Independent Television Service (ITVS). Broadcast nationally on
PBS children's programming. Screenings include: 1996 National Educational
Film and Video Festival, Silver Apple Award; 1996 Black Maria, Director's
Citation.
Clay-on-glass, 1995, 2 mins.
Three animated sequences on cell behavior for Blackside, Inc.'s PBS series
on scientists of color.
Clay-on-glass, 1994, 5 mins.
Funded by Pittsburgh Filmmakers Mid-Atlantic Region Media Arts Fellowship,
the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and PIFVA Subsidy Grant. Screened at
Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema, Festival of Independents, WHYY
Independent Images Series, South Beach film Festival, and others.
Mixed media, 1993-1994, 10-60 secs.
A series of emmy award-winning animated station ID s produced by PBS
station WHYY.
Performance - Clay-on-Glass
Fish - Clay-on-Glass
City Skyline - Clay-on-Glass
Baker - Clay-on-Glass
TV 12 Cooks - Clay-on-Glass
Sandcastle - stop-motion and pixilation
Paperstairs - 3-D stop-motion
ZRocks - Color Photocopies
Isolation - Clay-on-Glass
Clay-on-glass, 1994, 30 secs.
Directed and animated a 30-second spot for MTV Network.
Mixed live action and multi-media animation, 1993, 6 mins.
Spotlight film for WHYY, based on Charlotte Perkins Gilman s story, The
Yellow Wallpaper. Live-action film mixed with clay-on-glass and other experimental animation
techniques tells the story of a woman losing touch with reality.
Clay-on-glass, 1989, 1.5 mins.
Moody swirling images interpret an Emily Dickinson poem. Distributed by
Picture Start and Chicago Filmmakers, broadcast on
Bravo, WHYY-TV12, and WYBE-TV35. Screenings include: New York
Film Expo, Asbury Film Festival The Medicine Wheel Animation
Festival, Poetry Film Festival, and Philadelphia Festival of Independents.
Included in a video collection - Animation of the Apocalypse.
Clay-on-glass animation, 1989, 18 secs.
Leased by MTV Network, 1989-1991. Broadcast on MTV and MTV Europe.
Mixed-media Animation, 1988, 5 mins.
Animated photocopies, rotoscoped and drawn images are used in this
experimental music video. 1989 WHYY Independent
Images Program.
Cameraless Animation, 1986, 1 min.
Images drawn directly on the film tell an African myth of how humans found
fire. 1989 WHYY Independent Images Program.