Anxious Animation
Movie"This aint no Pixar This is aint no Disney This aint no fooling around"
1 hr 21 min
This aint no Pixar This is aint no Disney This aint no foolin around ANXIOUS ANIMATION presents six contemporary film artists who take us into surreal worlds of delirium and paranoia The reigning proponent of cutandpaste LEWIS KLAHR nourishes intensely private visions on the compost heap of collective fantasy through old magazines comic books and cocktail iconographyComplex full of charm and pervaded by themes of loss JANIE GEISER simultaneously creates and deconstructs fantasies through dolllike figurines cutouts and found objects in her cryptic narrativesJIM TRAINORs handmade animations explore the inner lives of animals that appear strangely selfaware even as they instinctually copulate feed fight kill and dieThe Bay Area collective of RODNEY ASCHER SYD GARON and ERIC HENRY conjure diabolical visions with digital savvy accompanied by the manic music of Buckethead and DJ QBert
