Monday, March 31
Tuesday, April 1
Admission: $5, $10 minimum
Showtimes: 7:30 and 10pm
reservations
are recommended
Cartune Xprez is dropping into Monkey Town for 2 stops on their "Spring
Cruiser" tour. They will be presenting an 80-minute program
of short animated videos and performances celebrating the wilderness
of imagination through motion pictures. Featured artists include
Bruce Bickford, Shana Moulton, Takeshi Murata, Martha Colburn,
and more. Alongside this cartoon theater Hooliganship will be
performing their most recent piece entitled "Realer" in
which audiences strap on a pair of 3D glasses to bear witness
to a televised parade gone awry.
The touring program, which roughly mirrors an upcoming Cartune Xprez DVD publication, will provide a rare opportunity to see videos by emerging artists as well as internationally known artists. Collectively, their resume includes collaborations with Frank Zappa and major exhibitions at the Whitney Biennial, the MOMA in New York, the Sundance Film Festival, and many other institutions throughout the world.
-Screening Highlights-
-Bruce Bickford: Inversion
Layer (excerpt)
Bruce Bickford, born in 1947, lives and works near Seattle, Washington. Considered by some critics to be the world's greatest animator, he first garnered recognition for his collaborations with Frank Zappa in the 1970s. 'Inversion Layer' is a fast-moving pencil line-animation in which Bickford relentlessly transforms human figures and faces into peculiar beasts, burgers, and other oddities.
-Shana Moulton: The Mountain Where Everything is Upside Down
Shana Moulton, born in 1976 lives and works in New York City. She creates evocative videos and performances that combine new age humor with a low-tech elegance. Her use of subtle video effects and simple animated objects charges the seemingly banal domestic rituals in her videos with supernatural qualities. In 'The Mountain Where Everything is Upside Down' Moulton stars as Cynthia, an anxiety-ridden hypochondriac who explores a collection of nick-knacks in a surreal workout room.
-Takeshi Murata: EscapeSpiritVideoSlime
Takeshi Murata, born in 1974, lives and works in New York. Primarily an abstract animator, Murata has gained recent notoriety through his innovative psychedelic videos. In 'EscapeSpiritVideoSlime' he digitally deconstructs and rebuilds a peculiar jungle landscape.
Performance Highlight
-Hooliganship: Realer
Peter Burr and Christopher Doulgeris, both born in 1980, live and work in Portland, Oregon. They formed Hooliganship in 2002 creating performances, videos, music, and installations that revel in a hypnotic abundance of digital information. In REALER live music, cartoons, and video game worlds cross paths in a surreal adventure through 3 dimensions. 3D glasses are included.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.cartunexprez.com
http://www.hooliganship.com
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