Kathy Smith

Kathy Smith

William Moritz

Kathy Smith is one of Australia’s top animators. She studied at the Sydney College of the Arts and the Studio Art Centers International
in Florence, Italy. Her early Super-8 films, A Figure in Front of a Painting and Ayer, were shown in exhibitions in Europe and the U.S., and are in the collection of the Australian National Gallery. Her later film Change of Place was nominated for an Australian Film Institute Award, and Living on the Comet was awarded a Bronze Award at MOMA’s Expo of Short Film & Video. In 1996, Smith lived and worked in Los Angeles as a resident of the Santa Monica Studio LA.

Selected Filmography*

Smith distributes all of her films:

Kathy Smith
43 Ridge Street
Surry Hills 2010
Sydney
N.S.W. AUSTRALIA
Tel: 011-612-9698-4217

* Most of Smith’s films have been made with the support of the Australia Council, the national funding body for the arts in Australia.

Bibliography

Animation in the Post-Industrial Era , Moritz, William. The Oxford History of World Cinema. Ed. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1996, 551-558.