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Thursday, August 10
Admission: $7
Showtimes: 7:30pm and 10pm
reservations
are recommended
Tonight's Program will feature...
Cartoons by female animators that explore sensuality
and a healthy
fascination with medical visits:
"Asparagus", 26 minutes, (1979), dir. Suzan
Pitt
"El Doctor", 20 minutes, (2006), dir.
Suzan Pitt
"Five Fucking Fables", 7 minutes (2002), dir.
Signe Baumane
"Dentist", 10 minutes (2005), dir.
Signe Baumane
This monthly series is curated by Mike
Enright
and facilitated by Dahlia
Design Group
Artist Bios:
Suzan
Pitt's paintings and animated films have won numerous
prizes worldwide. Her film "ASPARAGUS" showed with David
Lynch's ERASERHEAD for two years on the Midnight Movie circuit
and won first prize at the Atlanta Film festival and the Oberhausen
Short Film Festival along with the International Critic's prize.
"ASPARAGUS" was featured in the Hiroshima International
Animation Festival in Japan and the Cardiff International Animation
Festival in England among 20 other festivals. Animation historian
John Cannemaker wrote "The extraordinary ASPARAGUS is one
of the most lavish and wondrous animated shorts ever made...an
overwhelming visual experience."
Her film "JOY STREET" premiered at the New York Film
festival and was in competition at the Sundance film Festival,
winning Best Short Film at the Naples Film Festival and the GOLDEN
GATE AWARD at the San Francisco International Film Festival. John
Cooper of the Sundance Film Festival wrote about JOY STREET, "Haunting
animated paintings capture the isolation and distraught psyche
of a suicidal woman....the film is beautiful one moment and disturbing
the next". And Caryn James from The New York Times
described the film as "Vivid, intriguing, and bizarre"
while Anne Markowski from the Boston Sojourner described it as
"A brilliant psychological parable"
Signe
Baumane was born in Latvia, lived there till she was
18 then went to Moscow to study Philosophy where she obtained
BA in Philosophy. In 1989 Signe started to work in Riga’s
Animated Film Studio as a cell painter and part time animator.
From 1991 to 1993 she received three grants and produced her first
3 animated films. In September 1995, Signe left for New York with
three of her Latvian films tucked behind the belt, looking for
independence. As soon as she arrived to New York she got the best
possible teacher of Animated Independence - Bill Plympton,
in whose studio she started to work in January 1996.
Signe worked on his 3 features and countless shorts and learned
a lot how independent animation studio works. She also learned
how to make animated films independently from government grants
- fast and cheap. With the lessons learned Signe started producing
films on her own and regularly travels to festivals with the films.
Her interest in promoting her own and other independent animators
work extended into collaboration with festival programmers. She
is a programming adviser for Florida Film Festival, Red Bank International
Film Festival, Woodstock Film Festival. She has initiated and
curated numbers of independent animation programs and is in the
organizing core of Square Footage Films - New York group of independent
animators that self publishes and self distributes DVDs of their
work. She has been invited to be a Judge in Red Shift Film Festival
in New York 2004, Florida Film Festival 2004, Annecy International
Animated Film Festival 2004 and Ottawa International Animated
Film Festival 2004. Signe Baumane is a 2005 fellow in Film from
the New York Foundation for the Arts as well as a Member of Academy
Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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