New Animation

Ancestors
• By Larry Jordan. (1978, 3 mins, Print Courtesy of filmmaker)
Moonlight Sonata
• By Larry Jordan. (1978, 5 mins, color, Print Courtesy of filmmaker)
The two latest works by a Bay Area master of collage animation, they reveal mystical combinations and magical transformations of exquisite objects.

Sketches
A series of brief but evocative scenes from Japanese urban life, rotoscoped into motion with sumi-stroke graphic clarity.
• By Vincent Collins. (1978, 4 mins, Print Courtesy of filmmaker)

Three Arctic Flowers
“While possessing a tranquil zone of silence, each flower unfolds its Arctic energy.”
-J.E.
• By Jules Engel. (1978, 3-1/2 mins, color, Print Courtesy of filmmaker)

Hors D'Ouvres
“A playful and painterly mixture of shapes, textures and colors.”
-J.E.
• By Jules Engel. (1978, 4 mins, color, Print Courtesy of filmmaker)

LMNO
“LMNO is a cartooned compilation of personal visions in which appear, at various times, goldfish, joggers, airplanes, claw hammers, croquet balls, milk cartons, bananas, Kandinsky abstractions, and various versions of Emile Cohl's stick figure cop.”
-R.B.
• By Robert Breer. (1978, 10 mins, color, Distributed by Serious Business Company)

Surface Work
“The screen as one dynamic surface, made from one hundred and fifty drawings on tracing paper that cycle like waves. A voice-piece with screen presence.”
-D.P.
• By Dennis Pies. (1978, 5 mins, color, Distributed by Serious Business Company)

Shorelines
The gleanings of seasons of beach-combing... shells, pebbles and sand... are choreographed in serial object animation with Cartesian contemplation and inventive patterns.
• By Al Jarnow. (1978, 3 mins, color, Print Courtesy of filmmaker)

Diagram Film
The American landscape is photographed and then analyzed with a merciless, abstract wit. Compelled by some unknown, free-fall logic, the essential lines of the “scene” are resolved to their graphic destinies.
• By Paul Glabicki. (1978, 14 mins, color, Distributed by Serious Business Company)

Blind Man's Bluff
The primal man who emerges from the jungle with a Helen Keller sensory innocence finds that a little knowledge can indeed be a dangerous thing. A study in basic character animation.
• By Jeffrey Hale. (1978, 4 mins, color, Distributed by Serious Business Company)

De Young Museum TV Spot
A sprightly cyclic cartoon that is indeed art for Art's sake.
• By Michael McMillan. (1978, 30 seconds, color, Print Courtesy of filmmaker)

Make Me Psychic
Cruikshank's character Quasi the duck experiences further adventures in mental and social crises, in the vibrant fantasy of her imaginative cartoon style.
• By Sally Cruikshank. (1978, 8 mins, color, 35mm, Distributed by Serious Business Company)

K97 Monster FM
The Demonic Presence rises again, this time it's over San Francisco in search of good listening.
• By Bud Luckey. (1978, 30 seconds, color, 35mm, Print Courtesy of The Luckey-Zamora Picture Moving Company)

The Grateful Dead Concert
(Introduction). State-of-the-Art collage and effects animation, a dazzling optical trip of record-cover surrealism and tongue-in-skull humor.
• By Gary Gutierrez. (1977, 11 mins, color, 35mm, Print Courtesy of The Grateful Dead)

Program repeated on Tuesday, March 27.

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