Current exhibition
Oscar Murillo: if I was to draw a line, this journey started
approximately 400km north of the equator
20 Sep -1 Dec 2013
Main and first floor galleries
Admission free
www.southlondongallery.org/oscarmurillo
South London Gallery
65–67 Peckham Road, London SE5 8UH
020 7703 6120 [email protected]
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Asparagus at the
Quackadero:
Female Animators of the 1970s
SUn 22 Sep 2013, 5pm , Free
Asparagus at the Quackadero:
Female Animators of the 1970s
Programme
Forthcoming Events
As part of PAMI, film historian and writer Duncan Carson
presents a talk on the explosion of activity in animation
by women in the 1970s. Usually working alone, their
work is often acutely idiomatic, sometimes in cracked
dialogue with animation history. Vibrant, adult, forceful and
uncompromising, these films are wrought from a necessity
of expression that bears little connection to commercial
animation.
After considering the role of earlier pioneers, this talk
focuses mainly on the work of three artists of the 1970s: Sally
Cruikshank, Caroline Leaf and Suzan Pitt. Alongside clips and
complete films, the talk considers the intersection of second
wave feminism with this movement, along with a history of
the difficult position these works have occupied in relation
to traditional animation, high art and funding politics. New
interviews with all three animators inform the discussion, as
well as other key figures from the period.
Duncan Carson is a film historian, writer and editor. He
graduated from Birkbeck College's Master's in Film History in
2012. He runs a regular screening programme under the name
Nobody Ordered Wolves.
PAMI is a four-day programme of artists’ moving image
happening in various locations across Peckham, South-East
London through 19 - 22 September 2013.
www.pami.org.uk
@PAMI_festival
A full playlist of these films can be found at Duncan Carson’s
blog.:
www.pangolinblues.wordpress.com
Foundations and innovators
Studio animators
Evelyn Coates
Retta Scott (1916–1990)
Retta Davidson (1921–1998)
Reiko Okuyama (d. 2007)
Lillian Freedman Astor (1912–1989). Director of many Betty
Boop shorts for Fleischer Studios and Hawaiian Birds (1936).
Husband and wife teams
Lotte Reiniger (1899–1981) and Carl Koch (1892–1963). The
Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926; first extant animated
feature).
Mary Ellen Bute (1906–1983) and Ted Nemeth. Spook Sport
(1939, with Norman McLaren), Parabola (1937), Synchronomy
No 4 (1938, with Ted Nemeth), Tarantella (1940).
Claire Parker (1910–1981) and Alexander Alexeïeff (1901–
1982). Night on Bald Mountain, prologue to The Trial (1962; dir.
Orson Welles) (1933), Le Nez (1963), Pictures at an Exhibition
(1972).
Joy Batchelor (1914–1991) and John Halas (1912–1995). The
Magic Canvas (1948), Animal Farm (1954; first British animated
feature).
Marie Menken (1909–1970) and Willard Maas (1906–1971). Go
Go Go (1962), Lights (1966).
Faith Hubley (1924–2001) and John Hubley (1914–1977).
Windy Day (1968) Eggs (1971), Cockaboody (1973), Enter Life
(1981), My Universe Inside and Out (1996).
Innovators
Lillian Schwartz (1927–).
Margaret Tait (1918–1999). Colour Poems (1974).
Lis Rhodes (1942–). Dresden Dynamo (1971).
Storm de Hirsch. Peyote Queen (1965).
1970s Animators
Jane Aaron. Traveling Light (1985), Set in Motion (1987).
Amy Kravitz (1956–). River Lethe (1985), Trap (1998), Roost
(1998).
Maureen Selwood. Odalisque (1980), The Rug (1985), Flying
Circus: An Imagined Memoir (1995).
Kathy Rose. Pencil Booklings (1978), Primitive Movers (1983).
Daina Krumins. Babobilicons (1982), The Divine Miracle (1973).
Sara Petty. Furies (1975), Shadrac (1981).
Susan Young. The Doomsday Clock (1987), Hendrix: Fire (1992).
Ruth Hayes. Wanda (1990), The Reign of the Dog: A Revisionist
History (1994).
Joanna Priestley. Voices (1985).
Maria Lassnig (1919–). Selfportrait (1971), Couples (1972), Art
Education (1976).
Monique Renault. Pas va Deux (1988, with Gerrit van Djik).
Sally Cruikshank (1949– )
Ducky (1971)
Fun on Mars (1971)
Chow Fun (1972)
Quasi at the Quackadero (1975)
Make Me Psychic (1978)
Face Like a Frog (1987)
Caroline Leaf (1946– )
Sand or Peter and the Wolf (1969)
The Owl who Married a Goose (1974)
The Street (1976)
The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa (1978)
Interview (1979 with Veronika Soul)
Two Sisters (1990)
Suzan Pitt (1943– )
Bowl, Theatre, Marble Game (1970)
Crocus (1971)
Jefferson Circus Songs (1973)
Asparagus (1979)
Joy Street (1995)
Troubles the Cat (1996; Cartoon Network animated shorts series)
El Doctor (2006)
Visitation (2011)
Pinball (2013)
National Film Board of Canada
Evelyn Lambart (1914–1999). Begone Dull Care (1949; with
Norman McLaren), Mr. Frog Went A-Courting (1974).
Suzanne Gervais. Cycle (1971), La Plage (1978).
Gayle Thomas. A Sufi Tale (1980), Quilt (1996).
Wendy Tilby (1960). Strings (1991), When the Day Breaks (1991,
with Amanda Forbis), Wild Life (2011, with Amanda Forbis;
winner of the 2011 Academy Award for Best Animated Short).
Channel 4 Animators
Joanna Quinn (1962–). Girl’s Night Out (1987), Body Beautiful
(1990).
Candy Guard. A Little Something (1988).
Petra Freeman. The Mill (1992), Jumping Joan (1994).
Alison de Vere (1927–2001). The Black Dog: A Soul Journey
(1987).
Marjut Rimminen. Some Protection (1987).
Peter and the Wolf
Wed 25 Sep 2013, Workshop: 2-4pm, Free; Presentation:
7pm, £5/£3 conc
In collaboration with the Art Writing Library (Mary Rinebold and
Beatrice Schulz), this workshop and talk proposes a shape of
art writing that plays across sound, text, film and discourse.
Verb-ing the noun, this event brings together the work of artist
and poet Franck Leibovici, and Adrian Rifkin. Demonstrating
and reflecting on the significance of the gerundive, a verbal
adjective that suspends the subject of a sentence in a perpetual
state of being, Peter and the Wolf consists of a free afternoon
art writing workshop with Adrian Rifkin, followed by an evening
presentation of Leibovici’s series calendaires, a programme
that performs grammatical operations on found linguistic
fragments, accompanied by discursive contributions from
Rifkin, and moderated by Amélie Mourgue d'Algue.
The Love for Three Oranges
Wed 2 Oct 2013, Workshop: 2-4pm, Free; Presentation: 7pm,
£5/£3 conc
In collaboration with the Art Writing Library (Mary Rinebold
and Beatrice Schulz), these two workshops and talks propose
a shape of art writing that plays across sound, text, film, and
discourse.
For The Love for Three Oranges, Oulipo writer and translator
Ian Monk travels from Lille to London for a free afternoon
workshop that pays special attention to how the invention of
systems – such as those developed by Oulipo – liberate through
their apparent restrictions. The free workshop is paired with an
evening discussion between Monk and curator Sarina Basta on
the legacy of Oulipo in current art and writing practice.
Booking for both the free afternoon workshop and/or the
evening presentation is essential.
Book online or call 020 7703 6120.