Rosto A.D
Encyclopedia
Rosto is a Dutch artist
and filmmaker best known for his award-winning short film trilogy and online graphic novel
Mind My Gap. Rosto is founder and owner of Studio Rosto A.D, a film production company, animation studio and atelier based in Amsterdam
, the Netherlands
. His films: The Rise and Fall of the Legendary Anglobilly Feverson and Jona/Tomberry were included in the Animation Show of Shows
.
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
and filmmaker best known for his award-winning short film trilogy and online graphic novel
Graphic novel
A graphic novel is a narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader using sequential art in either an experimental design or in a traditional comics format...
Mind My Gap. Rosto is founder and owner of Studio Rosto A.D, a film production company, animation studio and atelier based in Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
, the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
. His films: The Rise and Fall of the Legendary Anglobilly Feverson and Jona/Tomberry were included in the Animation Show of Shows
Animation show of shows
The Animation Show of Shows is a traveling selection of the year's best animated short films, curated and presented by Acme Filmworks founder, Ron Diamond. It began in 1998 with the aim of showing the most original, funny, intelligent short animated films from all over the world and presenting them...
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Filmography
- Mind My Gap - online graphic novel - (1998 - present)
- Beheaded (1999)
- (the rise and fall of the legendary) Anglobilly Feverson (2002)
- Jona/Tomberry (2005)
- Big White/Big Black (2006)
- Thee Wreckers: No Place Like Home (2008)
- The Monster of Nix (2011)
Published
- Rosto A.D's Mind My Gap Short Film Trilogy Extravaganza (DVD) - © 2005, published by Chalet Pointu, Paris.
External links
- Mind My Gap Official site of Rosto A.D's online graphic novel
- Anglobilly Feverson Official site of the Rosto A.D short film (the rise and fall of the legendary) Anglobilly Feverson
- Jona/Tomberry Official site of the Rosto A.D short film Jona/Tomberry
- The Monster Of Nix Official site of the Rosto A.D short film The Monster Of Nix
- Thee Wreckers Official site of the Rosto A.D music project Thee Wreckers