Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 7:30pm
Dash Shaw + Bobby’s Girl
155 Freeman Street, BrooklynWith books like Bottomless Belly Button, BodyWorld, and his latest, New School, the young cartoonist Dash Shaw is responsible for some of the most adventurous and idiosyncratic comics being made today. His dynamic serial forms feature elaborately layered panels and off-kilter figuration, betraying a remarkable confluence of styles and strategies, at times recalling everything from Sigmar Polke to manga. Recently, in anticipation of a feature-length project, he has also begun to produce a similarly variegated body of animation, which includes music video, the melancholy droid-drama The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century, A.D., and a biography that covers a chapter in the life of Dada doyenne Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. He’s also crafted cinematic permutations of his own comics, as well as adaptations of game shows and reality tv that marry their source materials’ original audio tracks with a series of static illustrations to uncanny effect—Wheel of Fortune never seemed so heartbreaking, or so strange. Tonight, he’ll present a selection of his experiments with moving images at Light Industry. Rounding out the lineup is a film chosen by Shaw that he finds resonant with the concerns of his particular hand-drawn animation techniques: Bobby’s Girl, an 80s anime rarity about a teenage biker, his pen pal, and his death drive.
Followed by a conversation with Shaw.
Tickets - $7, available at door.
Please note: seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 7pm.
(( I’m screening some of my animations along with the 1985 limited animation anime “Bobby’s Girl” !!! It’s gonna be amazing!!! ))
Above: Program notes for a 1965 screening of Stan Brakhage’s The Art of Vision at the Film-makers’ Cinematheque.
P. Adams Sitney will introduce The Art of Vision at Light Industry on Saturday.
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“That figure who in some quarters is emblematic, almost, of film itself. She is called, most obviously because of her dress, The China Girl, an odious term, but it’s universal and so it’s hard to avoid…The China Girl and her sisters are intended as examples of well-exposed skin tones, and they are used by motion pictures laboratories as a guide in calibrating their equipment. Sometimes examples of standard reference colors are included in the scene as well. The usual procedure is to cut a few frames of the scene into the leader of the picture negative and so she becomes a part of each release print. This figure’s sex, her being in the margin of the film, her serving to establish and maintain a standard of correct appearance, these are aspects of a single question that deserves thought.” - Morgan Fisher, Standard Gauge
The American Serial: 1914-1944
Light Industry
155 Freeman Street
Brooklyn, New York
Saturday, January 26, 2013
11am-11pm
www.lightindustry.org/theamericanserial
The American Serial: 1914-1944
Light Industry
155 Freeman Street
Brooklyn, New York
Saturday, January 26, 2013
11am-11pm
www.lightindustry.org/theamericanserial