Wild Things / Wild Scenes

Wild Things / Wild Scenes

Sunday May 21, 2023 4-6pm

$12 General / $10 VPES Members

An evening of animation with OneHouseArts and Smokehouse Films at the Velaslavasay Panorama.

Featuring an arrangement of stop motion animations made in 2023 by artists and apprentices of OneHouse Arts and a selection of historic 16mm animations from the archives of Smokehouse Films, Wild Things / Wild Scenes brings together contemporary explorations of experimental animation with the 100-year history of 16mm filmmaking.

OneHouse Arts will present a selection of films inspired by a session of nature field drawings observing plants and animals, made at a farm located in the eastern region of Los Angeles earlier this year. Through this practice, the students decided to make what Mary Ellen Bute calls Absolute Film (light, form, movement, sound).

OneHouse Art’s films resemble the early stop motions acquired by artist John Cannizzaro of Smokehouse Films, works by creators like Jan Lenica, Terry Gilliam, Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart, and the first animation Cannizzaro made himself was a wild cut-out stop motion animation called The Human Race. With the Velaslavasay Panorama, Cannizzaro is curating ageless animations like Evelyn Lambart’s The Hoarder (1969) and Witold Giersz’s Fire (Pożar) (1975), and weaving them between filmic explorations of wild nature by OneHouse Arts students. Films will be projected digitally with a 16mm projector demonstration.