Daily post 06 Jun 2010 08:53 am
New Quay Film, new Blog, new Griffin Exhibit
Quay Brothers Commissioned to Create Film about Philadelphia’s Mutter Museum
Stephen ’69 (Film) and Timothy ’69 (Illustration) Quay – the internationally recognized Quay Brothers - have been commissioned by Philadelphia’s Mutter Museum to create a film about its collection of anatomical and pathological specimens, medical instruments and apparatus, and memorabilia of famous scientists and physicians.
Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery Exhibition coordinator Edward Waisnis, through his Pro Bono Films production company, will produce the film. University Liberal Arts Master Lecturer David Spolum is co-writing the script and conducting related research. Filming begins this summer and the premiere is slated for next spring.
Project funding has been provided by the Pew Charitable Trusts, administered through the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
Thanks for the tip to Tom Hachtman
Stephen Hartley Blog
- A new blog hit the jet stream today. The very young, Stephen Hartley has fashioned a new blog so he can comment on animation history. Called blabbing on arts and culture, (a big title) it begins today with some thoughts on Tom and Jerry. Worth seeing what comes of it given some of the comments Stephen has made on my site as well as others like Mark Mayerson’s and Hans Perk’s.
George Griffin of View at Biennial
- George Griffin has been featured in the Santa Fe Eighth International Biennial Exhibition with a piece called Viewmaster. It can be viewed here.
Viewmaster was a film George made in 1978. It features a wild series of art/cartoon characters chasing each other as the camera pans slowly past them all. When it returns back to the first on screen runner, it cuts back to the full view of the “Viewmaster”-like mutoscope with all of the characters running around the border. It doesn’t sound it, but the film is powerful. I think this is George’s work at its peak. As a matter of fact, after seeing the film back in ’78, I bought a 16mm print from George. (This was before the VHS/DVD days.) I had to own a copy.
That same full screen “Viewmaster” is on display animated at the site of the Biennial exhibition. You can also view many other pieces by artists such as William Kentridge, Robert Breer, Cindy Sherman, and Dziga Vertov.
Congratulations to George for being in such esteemed company.
View it.
