Here’s an anthology of, yes, short animated films – some of them in familiar cartoon style, some stop-motion works, some a sequential flurry of complex paintings. The subjects match the compositional diversity, providing narratives like Felix Dufour-Laperrire’s gentle and texturally dense “Rosa Rosa,” about a pair of lovers making a home together in the midst of a war-torn city; Laurie Hill’s “Photograph of Jesus,” in which the strange requests made of an historical photography archive are vividly realized; local man Lance Myers’ “Here’s the Stapler If You Need It,” a kooky and ultimately bloody tale involving the paper cutter at a copyshop; and the incredible claymation mindfuck called “Trepan Hole,” a wildly inventive choreography of clay, color, and figures in a landscape as otherworldly and simultaneously familiar as the furrows deep within your own brain. The collection’s well worth viewing – multiple times, if you skip the SXSWClick winner “Haunted House.”
Tuesday, March 17, 11am, Alamo South Lamar; Wednesday, March 18, 1:30pm, Alamo South Lamar
This article appears in March 13 • 2009.