Moving Strangely: Experimental Animation

Tonight's program ranges from Martha Colburn's decidedly adult, wacky collage animation film Spiders in Love: An Arachnogasmic Musical and Jim Trainor's strange and disturbing felt-tip The Bats, to films that appeal to all ages-Richard Reeves's vibrant scratch animation, Sea Song, Stephanie Ingram's simple yet beautiful cut-outs in The Boy and the Night, and Narangkar Khalsa's We Stole Three Bikes..., a Sam Shepard story animated via a mixture of drawings, scratched film, and traveling mattes. Jennifer Reeves's single-frame rhythms in The Girl's Nervy, Laurie McKenna's animated miniature toys in Send in the Clowns, Emily Breer's fractured take on traditional comic-strips in Superhero, and Julie Murray's innocently wicked 3-D animations in Domain are vibrant and imaginative examples of low-tech approaches to animation. In Steven Dye's King Midas, puppets move to the tunes of the Dactyls, while Viervielfä;ltigung by James Otis is comprised of images from a study of body types, and Syd Garon and Rodney Ascher's Somebody Goofed brings to life Jack Chick's religious tracts.-Kathy Geritz

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