PORTLAND PIXILATION: HEIT + POPP + HOUGH
OC welcomes Oregon animation maven Laura Heit, with a “Best Of” selection of single-frame work from her Portland hometown! A hands-on artist partial to puppets, Heit offers an entrée into the DIY aesthetic of the Pacific Northwest, where the art-form has always flourished. And so to her Rover’s Eye (Mars imaging!), Apollo Six (cut-outs of the failed flight), Two Ways Down (fall into underworld), and Deep Dark (song-cycle of projected shadows). PLUS Ben Popp’s Coastal Observations (shoreline flipbook), Juxtaposition (sensual foray from S8mm), HearNW (rhythmic synesthesia), and East Lake San Souci (Super16mm in the track area). Thirdly, Kurtis Hough honors us with his Cryosphere (tears against global warming), Painted Hills (the geometry of geology), To See More Light (elemental/cosmic), and Some Trees (poetic short). BONUS: 16mm ‘toons for trick ‘r treat goblin gobblin’!