“With its inherent ability to give vibrant life to the inner imaginings of the artist, animation has always been the perfect art form for the doodling of dirty daydreams. With ink and juices flowing, the animator can indulge their salacious inner fantasies frame by frame. Join us as we explore titillating toons from across the ages, from the secret “smutty symphonies” of ’20s studio animators to the raunchy X-rated revelries of the ’60s and ’70s, up through to the naughties of now, climaxing with an ultra-rare 35mm screening of the 1974 feature Down And Dirty Duck! Produced by Roger Corman as a response to Ralph Bakshi’s successful Fritz The Cat and featuring the voices and songs of Flo & Eddie (Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan of The Turtles and Mothers of Invention), Duck is a strikingly stylized psychedelic odyssey of sexual frustration, and an off-color oddity that perfectly embodies the raunchy underground élan of the 1970s. Down And Dirty Duck director Charles Swenson will be here for a Q&A after the screening!
Down And Dirty Duck Dir. Charles Swenson, 1974, 35mm, 75 min.”
Our favorite (and fellow) space cadets Squeak E. Clean and DJ Zegon of the world famous N.A.S.A. crew, strike again with yet another mouth watering music video with “Strange Enough” from their debut album The Spirit of Apollo.
ESPO goes from graffiti to glasswear and joins Japan’s Aoshima, who herself takes a break from Takashi Murakami’s collective Kaikai Kiki, to each create limited edition bottle/pitchers for Absolut Vodka’s Absolut Art of Sharingcampaign which simply looks intoxicating.
Check details of the four bottle/pitcher set from the always well informed theartcollectors.com.
New next level genius-ness from BLU as his follow up to COMBO (with David Ellis) and 2008’s masterpiece MUTO goes BIG BANG BIG BOOM on the streets of Awesometown. Once again an incredible display of creative ingenuity from arguably the best graf artist hitting the walls, sidewalks and whatever surface he can reach.
From BLU:
“BIG BANG BIG BOOM:
an unscientific point of view on the beginning and evolution of life … and how it could probably end.
direction and animation by BLU blublu.org
production and distribution by ARTSH.it artsh.it
sountrack by ANDREA MARTIGNONI
many thanks to (in random order):
xm24 bologna, csoa mezzacanaja, ericailcane, robert rebotti, andrea bagni, paper resistance, studiocromie, rifrazioni festival, sasso passo, sibe, festival de cine experimental de maldonado (uruguay), gianluigi toccafondo, orilo, maria de brea, bs as stencil, run don’t walk, franco fasoli, modo infoshop, pietro and icone festival, doma, cesare romani, popup festival and all the blu’s family”
“Oscar-winning animator, acclaimed cartoonist and dedicated jazz historian Gene Deitch will be at the Cinefamily for an in-person tribute led by cartoon historian Jerry Beck! One of the most influential men from the golden age of toonery, Deitch produced tons of shorts for a wide variety of studios (Columbia, Fox, MGM and Paramount, to name but a few), all with a freewheeling and innovative touch that represented the very best of the “modern” style of the ’50s and ’60s. Throughout this epic night, we’ll screen some of the coolest shorts of Deitch’s career: an appearance by Tom Terrific (one of TV Guide’s Top 50 Cartoon Characters of All-Time), the Oscar recipient Munro (penned by the great Jules Feiffer), a selection of Deitch’s widescreen Cinemascope “Terrytoons”, his award-winning beer commercials (featuring the comedy team of Bob & Ray as “Bert & Harry Piels”), Deitch’s independent shorts from the ’60s, a long-thought-lost UPA Howdy Doody Cartoon recently unearthed by the Library of Congress — and toons directed by Deitch featuring Krazy Kat, Popeye and Tom & Jerry. To cap off this fantastic lineup, Gene Deitch will appear in person for a Q&A! Deitch lives in Prague, Czech Republic, and rarely visits L.A. — so don’t miss this this rare one-of-a-kind evening of amazing animation!”
The age old question of what a sex and drug addicted piece of Play-Doh does once they’ve run out of sex and drugs to abuse finally get’s answered* in the brilliant stop motion short BLUE: An Erotic Life from talented Parsons graduate student Tibo Charroppin. Check out stills, video and more on Tibo’s thesis production blog here.
Video is extremely NSFW if your boss or co-workers are made of childrens’ clay, otherwise it’s fine.
From Tibo:
“BLUE: An Erotic Life is a stop motion animation that narrates the life story of a blob of clay dealing with sexual addiction. The piece plays on the contrast between graphic adult content and grotesque stop motion. The combination of the two makes for an absurd, dark humored short film.
BLUE: An Erotic Life is my BFA Student Thesis from Parsons School of Design.”
*Spoiler alert: Apparently once they’ve screwed everyone, including themselves, sex and drug addict Play-Doh’s go on to screw millions upon millions of more people as “the official biggest fucker in the nation”.
“SuperDeluxe.com animation star Brad Neely makes a one-night-only appearance at the Cinefamily to screen favorite selections from his online oeuvre, as well as the infamous Wizard People, Dear Reader, Brad’s wicked re-imagining of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone! Out of Brad’s fevered imagination was born three hilarious series for SuperDeluxe: “I Am Baby Cakes”, “The Professor Brothers” and “China, Illinois”; these lo-fi universes of bawdy, oddball merriment have made Brad one of the kings of indie animation, and tonight he spins the choicest cuts from these and other projects. Then, we’ll settle into a rare live performance by Brad of his unique and riotous take on the first film in the “Harry Potter” franchise, with all of the film’s audio track replaced by his loopy, stentorian narration and new voice characterizations, What’s Up, Tiger Lily?-style. In his souped-up, bonkers version, our pubescent wizards-in-training are gruff boozehounds with a flair for the over-dramatic, and the ballgame of Quidditch takes on a whole new, devious meaning. Neely’s full-bore delivery will have you pumping your fists in the air, shouting right along with him: “I am a destroyer of worlds — I am Harry fucking Potter!”
Let your inner child run free for an evening filled with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Wile E. Coyote, the Roadrunner, Tweety, Sylvester, Speedy Gonzalez, Yosemite Sam, the Tasmanian Devil and the rest of the Looney Tunes you love as cartoon historian Jerry Beck offers up The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes CartoonsatThe Cinefamily to commemorate his upcoming book of the same name (available June 1).
“To commemorate the publication of animation historian Jerry Beck’s new hardcover book “The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons” (Insight Editions), we’ve got for you (what else?) one hundred Looney Tunes — we’ll screen ten full-length shorts, as well as present a specially-edited reel featuring the other ninety, and if we’re lucky, advance copies of the book may be available for Jerry to sign! The book is based on a survey taken of thousands of cartoon fans, film historians and renowned movie critics, and celebrates the best of the best, the fastest and funniest Warner Bros. cartoons you must see before you die. The program features classic works by Tex Avery, Frank Tashlin, Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett, Friz Freleng and others — and stars Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, Tweety, Sylvester, Speedy Gonzales and dozens more. “Kill da Wabbit!” “Hassan Chop!” “I Tawt I Taw a Putty Tat!” “What’s Up, Doc?” “Pronoun Trouble!” Which ones made the cut? Join us on June 1st and find out! That’s all, folks!”
There’s not much better than a good cartoon. And who better to know what a good cartoon is other than the people behind the iconic children’s show Yo Gabba Gabba? The Cinefamily presents an evening of animation with European stop motion favorites along with the 1973 super psychedelic cartoon Hugo the Hippo curated by Lance Robertson (DJ Lance Rock) and animation producer Kevin Sukho Lee.
More from LaCinefamilia:
“One of the many multi-colored joys of the “Yo Gabba Gabba!” universe is its top-notch animation segments, supervised and collected by animation producer Kevin Sukho Lee. On this special Friday, Kevin showcases his expertise in a two-part show. First, he’ll serve up a program of rarely shown stop-motion animated shorts from the Czech Republic, France, and Russia; these hand-made worlds are some of cinema’s greatest treasures, ones which are criminally unknown on this side of the pond. Then, onto the kaleidoscopic and exquisitely detailed Hugo The Hippo, one of the few true psychedelic progenies of Yellow Submarine, and one of the greatest animated films you’ve never seen. This beautiful film, directed in the U.S. but animated in Hungary, never achieved the success it rightfully deserved, despite featuring the voice talents of Burl Ives and Paul Lynde and funky tunes sung by Marie and Jimmy Osmond. Initially derided as too frightening and “trippy” for young American audiences, this phantasmagoric fable manages to be cute but not cutesy, pulling no punches with its heavy message about mankind’s responsibility to respect all living things — a quality that only makes it all the more unique and enduring. Join us as we celebrate the resurrection of this lost jewel!”
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