Cut Snip Ooze: Contemporary
Animated Films by Women
This collection of animated and optically manipulated films investigates
unsolved crimes and medical mysteries.
Chronicles of an Asthmatic Stripper Sarah Jane Lapp
2002 5 min Color,
35mm US East Bay Premiere
Lapp¹s 1500 simple and stunning drawings, combined
with Mark Dresser¹s
contrabass solo score bring to life a set of ill-equipped
lungs in
Chronicles of an Asthmatic Stripper.
Anorexie Jenni Tietze
1999 13 min Color 16mm
Germany US Premiere
With biting humor and dry sarcasm, Anorexie is not a
typical film about
eating disorders. Tietze posits anorexia as a murderer
with the organization
United Diets as its accomplice.
Cut Snip Ooze Marianna Ellenberg
2003 5 min Color
16mm US West Coast Premiere
The vibrant colors of unidentifiable organic
matter pulsate and create a
state of anxious, meditative beauty in Cut Snip
Ooze.
Monkeys and Lumps Nancy Andrews
2003 38 min b/w 16mm US
West Coast Premiere
Performance
and Lumps chronicles Ima Plume, a public illustrator or
³chalk-talk
specialist.² In her spare time, Plume examines nonhuman life
forms called
³globsters.² Andrews successfully combines intricate
and
beautifully-rendered hand-drawn animation and puppetry with
live-action
elements and optically-printed found footage of Jane
Goodall.
Cows Gabriela Golder
2002 4 min Color Beta
SP Argentina US Premiere
Utilizing video effects Golder
r
monstruo
2002
monstruo is a brief and eerily animated
video which imagines a monster¹s
funeral.
Historia del Desierto Celia Galan Julve
2002 6 min Color
Beta UK
Spanish with English subtitles
Julve creates a stop-motion work of
striking ³documentary²
r
Rosita Guzman, a.k.a La Mocha, who
kept the police and her acquaintances
guessing about her dexterous abilities
for over forty years.
”MadCat tests, expands, and evolves the traditional, politically
motivated, 20th Century definition of the women¹s film festival.” (The
Independent Film and Video Monthly)
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