The Visual Arts Center at UT Austin's College of Fine Arts presents Fade In, a program of specially curated videos projected from the windows of the Visual Arts Center. For the first 2011 edition of Fade In, the VAC is presenting a collection of animation work curated by RTF lecturer Geoff Marslett.  The videos include work created by Marslett, fellow RTF faculty member PJ Raval, alumnus Amy Bench, as well dozens more innovative artists. 

Fade In
January 28 - March 12
Nightly, between Dusk and Dawn
Southeast Lawn of Art Building
Free and open to the public

Still from "Bubblecraft" (2006). Directed and animated by Geoff Marslett.

Marslett, who recently released his animated feature, MARS, is a native Texan who took a circuitous path to filmmaking, studying mathematics, philosophy, art, science, and languages at St. John’s College (1996) before returning to Texas to pursue an MFA in filmmaking at UT (2001). He has directed fourteen short films and a half dozen segments for other directors’ television and film programs, and been fortunate enough to collaborate with a wide variety of artists, filmmakers, and musicians along the way. His critically acclaimed Monkey vs. Robot screened at over 25 festivals worldwide, was distributed theatrically, and ultimately broadcast on HBO, PBS, and Univision. His most recent short, Bubblecraft, premiered in 2006 and served as a laboratory for developing his own unique animation process and style. Geoff wrote software specifically for animating this film and later co-wrote an expanded version for his next project, MARS. In 2009 Geoff was named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine. His teaching was also recognized in 2009 when he was awarded the University of Texas’ Board of Regents’ Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award.