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Tuesday, Sep 8, 2009
7:30 pm
Speechless: Recent Experimental Animation
The eight artist-made films on this program vary from cutout collage and puppet animation to 3-D images and drawings made with chalk and felt-tip markers. The vibrant, abstract spirals of Kerry Laitala's experiments with chromovision leap off the screen in pulsating 3-D in Chromatic Cocktail Extra Fizzy, while in Capitalism: Slavery, Ken Jacobs animates anonymous nineteenth-century stereoscopic images of slaves, bringing them to wrenching 3-D life. Speechless is Scott Stark's beautiful yet uneasy interweaving of imagery of human vulvas and landscapes, drawing on medical 3-D Viewmaster images. Lewis Klahr evokes longing and regret in the haunting collage film False Aging, crafted from the detritus of the past. Jim Trainor's characteristic line drawings animate an elliptical tale of human sacrifice while Martha Colburn's exuberant cutouts in Myth Labs construct an American social history punctuated by sermons and drug use. Fae Yamaguchi's miniature Decisions suggests an approach to life, and Lori Hiris's lush, transforming chalk drawings construct a meditation on genetics in Proteus.
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