Daily post 11 May 2006 08:47 am
Did you miss me?
We’re back! Finally, after being informed yesterday morning that I had a “Kernel Panic” (I swear that was my first. It felt more like “Kernel Anger”), my server returns 24 hours later.
– Had you read what I posted yesterday, you would have learned that I was promoting, yet again, the program which opened yesterday at the Film Forum. Cartoons: No Laughing Matter is a program of adult animation. (By “Adult” animation I don’t mean “Slutty” animation, or “Adolescent” animation; I mean animation designed to be viewed by “adults” who understand intelligent, sophisticated, mature themes. It felt good to not have to lower my sightline for animation.)
My three favorites on the program were Lisa Craft’s sophisticated work, The Flooded Playground, Suzan Pitt’s El Doctor, and George Griffin’s It Pains Me To Say This. All three explore dark material in a sophisticated, complex way. However, each and every film on the program inspired me to get off my butt and do something good.
- At yesterday’s 8pm screening, six of the film makers were there, in person for a Q&A. Lisa Crafts, George Griffin, Andy & Carolyn London, Suzan Pitt and Debra Solomon were recorded by the Film Forum and will be placed on their website as a podcast. Go here for that link.
- There is a review of this show at the Village Voice.
- Mark Mayerson’s new blog, Mayerson On Animation, as expected, is developing in to one of my favorites. It’s one of the first stops I make each morning and it’ll continue to be. Try it. you’ll like it.
- Thanks to the site Drawn, I’ve been drawn to Bibi’s Box, a wonderful site full of links and attachments and information.
- As a lover of Futurism, the art and art movement of the early 20th century (how could you not love a movement of artists so drawn to the violent world that they all joined the military in WWI and were mostly killed off – thus virtually ending their movement) it delights me to visit the British site Futurism and The Futurists. Lots of fabulous images and enormous dedication to the movement that deserves it.
