About Jack
Jack Feldstein is a Jewish animator from Sydney, Australia. His trademark style is the neonizing of a combination of live action video recording and public domain material, particularly cartoons. Neonizing is a complex computer-based technique that renders the lines of an image like a neon sign. Feldstein describes neon animation as a deconstructionist, post-modern animation filmmaking style that utilises appropriation and pop art techniques, in a Warhol meets Vegas look.
His rambling seemingly make-it-up-as-you-go-along, stream of consciousness monologue narratives have been likened to Woody Allen and Spalding Gray, but with an Australian twist.
Feldstein was a scriptwriter for many years before, as he puts it, he woke up one morning and began making neon films.
Festivals and Honours
Soho Rushes Film Festival, London, 2008
The Adventures of Virginia Woolf was a contender for the Broadcast Design Award.
Sarasota Film Festival, Florida, 2008
Shmetamorphosis premiered in the US.
Rotterdam International Film Festival, 2007 - 2008
A Wondrous Film about Emma Brooks was selected for the Rotterdam IFF 2007 program. "Shmetamorphosis" won online New Arrivals. Rotterdam International Film Festival, 2008 "Shmetamorphosis" screened in FestivalÕs Arrivals Section of Rotterdam International Film Festival 2008. Impakt Film Festival, Utrecht, 2007 A Wondrous Film about Emma Brooks.
Sydney International Film Festival, 2007
A Wondrous Film about Emma Brooks was a finalist for the Dendy Awards, Sydney Film Festival.
The Bunker International Film Festival 2007, Italy/The Netherlands
A Wondrous Film about Emma Brooks won an audience favourite prize.
Hawkesbury Film Festival, 2007
The Great Oz Love Yarn was awarded a prize in the under 12 minute films category.
Over The Fence Comedy Festival, 2007
The Great Oz Love Yarn won Best Director.
Rotterdam International Film Festival, 2006
"The Ecstasy of Gary Green" competed for the Tiger Award for short film.
Impakt Film Festival, Utrecht, 2006
The Ecstasy of Gary Green screened.
Melbourne International Animation Film Festival, 2006
Honorable Mention for "The Ecstasy of Gary Green."
Short-Sited Festival, Wollongong, 2005
Received the Best Short Film prize (Australian National Short Film) for The Great Oz Love Yarn.
Over The Fence Comedy Festival, 2005
Rock Hard won the Best Film prize.
Sydney International Film Festival, 2005
The Loser Who Won screened at the Dendy Awards for 2005.
Short Fuse Film Festival, 2005
The Theft.
The Australian Effects & Animation Festival, 2002
Three Months with Pook was awarded a Certificate of Excellence.
In 2004, Three Months with Pook was selected for the New Filmakers Film Series in New York.
Selected Filmography
The Ecstasy of Gary Green
Computer Games
The Loser Who Won
Rock Hard
A Wondrous Film about Emma Brooks
The Great OZ Love Yarn
The Adventures of James Joyce
