SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4 – 7 PM with Lisa Crafts in person for Q+A
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
(This event is $10.)
The films of New York animator Lisa Crafts display an artist’s engagement in a unique dialogue with the world. Our career-spanning program opens in 1976 with the exuberantly sex-positive cel animated optimism of DESIRE PIE. GLASS GARDENS, from 1982, depicts a hopeful vision of a quiet apocalypse, one in which artists are left to glean inspiration from abandoned landscapes. 2015’s Season Of Wonder presents a darkly surrealist vision of the ominous dread of life during the climate crisis. And current ongoing series Chimeric Portraits presents a bittersweet hope for life during and beyond of the Anthropocene era. Throughout, the animation techniques Crafts deploys, and often invents, in her filmmaking are as essential to the work as the themes they express.
Drawing from Crafts’ complete body of work, we’ll also present rare pieces previously seen only in gallery settings and whimsical shorts made for Sesame Street, followed by a conversation with the artist.
SHORT FILM PROGRAM:
GLASS GARDENS
1982. 7 minutes. Music by Laraaji
SESAME STREET SHORTS
1990s. 9 minutes. Co-director Ken Brown.
THE FLOODED PLAYGROUND
2005. 20 minutes.
4 NATURES MORTES
2011-2013. 4 minutes.
LANDSCAPES
2009-2013. 7 minutes.
SEASON OF WONDER
2015. 8 minutes.
CHIMERIC PORTRAITS
2021. 10 minutes.
DESIRE PIE
1976. 5 minutes.