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Always involved with sound design, Battaglia wrote the libretto for "Car Crash Opera" and took it to Michaela Eremiasova and Jairo Duarte-Lopez, then PhD candidates in music composition at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester NY. The three worked on the opera as a soundtrack, and the soundtrack
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was performed at the 2006 New York Opera Festival. The animated film short (8 min.), "Car Crash Opera," premiered in January 2012. It has won national and international awards for image and sound.
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featured a retrospective of Battaglia's work, and also in 2008 his name was added to the St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute Fine Arts Wall of Honor in recognition of his accomplishments.
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Battaglia retired in 2016. Presently he is working on two animated films: "Local Squalls" (fully animated; sound design) and "Postcards of People Looking at Landscape" (collage).
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Battaglia's animations range from pencil, and pastel on paper, as well as paint on film. He has won various awards from film festivals around the world, such as in
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noted the film "takes punning license with the words of the national anthem as they're spoken by a group of fifth-graders."
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is just that, the national anthem sung by a chorus of fifth graders" and "given a highly literal cartoon expression", and
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Teaching Motion Design: Course Offerings and Class Projects from the Leading Undergraduate and Graduate Programs
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called it a "witty look at the flies, fish and plant life that pass through the title creature's field vision".
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wrote that the film was "inventively animated," with such imagery as the rocket's red glare becoming a
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is taught as part of courses on American Expressionism. He is known for his 1980 short film
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Steven Heller, Michael Dooley (2008). Steven Heller, Michael Dooley (ed.).
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wrote the film "offers the most successful union of imagery and music".
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S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications alumni
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Skip Battaglia at Rochester Institute of Technology
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From 1981 through 1987, he served as 217:Newhouse School of Public Communications 778: 776: 589: 555:International Animated Film Association 535:New York Exposition of Independent Film 291:Ottawa International Animation Festival 976: 974: 653: 651: 281:and his 1997 music video for the song 200:degree in English and Philosophy from 595: 593: 7: 863:Everleth, Mike (November 25, 2010). 454:called it "hip and original", while 168:(born August 14, 1948) has been an 1065:McLaughlin, Jeff (April 8, 1983). 724:. November 8, 2010. 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Buffalo, New York
B.A.
Boston College
M.A.
Syracuse University
Boston College
Animator
Filmmaker
Educator
Experimental
animated films
CINE Golden Eagle
Cannes Film Festival
Prix du Jury
American
filmmaker
animator
Buffalo, New York
St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute
Bachelor of Arts
Boston College
high school
Master of Arts
Syracuse University
Newhouse School of Public Communications
Adjunct Faculty
University of Rochester
Department of Fine Arts
associate professor
Department of Communications and Journalism

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