Film Festival: Animania Festival 2
February 8, 2008 7:00 pm - February 10, 2008 7:00 pm
Featuring an amazing array of animated shorts by award-winning filmmakers.
- Glimpse - Dustin Grella
An experimental animated short, Glimpse is both a study of painter Willem de Kooning and a stream-of-consciousness narrative about the impermanence of life. 2007; 9 min. - Shuteye Hotel - Bill Plympton
What Jaws did to swimming, Shuteye Hotel will do for sleeping. In this new animated film noir murder mystery, set in a sleazy hotel, the police who are investigating a series of gruesome murders become victims of the evil force. 2007; 6 min. - Guide Dog - Bill Plympton
A sequel to the Oscar-nominated short Guard Dog. This time, the well-intentioned anti-hero dog aims to help the blind but with unexpectedly disastrous results. 2006; 6 min. Read the rest of this entry »
David Lynch’s remarkable first feature is a true original and a cult classic. Like a surrealist film, it has its own dream-like logic, mixing black comedy, horror, science fiction, and pure fantasy. The social outcast Henry, living in a sordid city of smoke, steam, and debris, is forced to marry his girlfriend when she pronounces him to be the father of her deformed child. Best seen as a dark nightmare about sexuality and parenthood, Eraserhead astounds through its expressionist sets and photography, startling industrial soundtrack, and relentless imaginative fluency.1976; 89 min.