Colin

artmaking, filmmaking, writing, biking, physical activity, good vegetarian food, animals, thinking, camping, dancing, optical printing, lots of music, and non-objective art. Jack H. Skirball Screening Series
Fragments from A Lover’s Discourse
Highlights from The Museum of Modern Art’s Tomorrowland: CalArts in Moving Pictures
"As is easily seen in The Museum of Modern Art’s rather epic-sized show, the film and video work created by generations of [CalArts] students reflects an institution that has taken openness as a kind of religious doctrine, so that the casual viewer will notice the seeds of Pixar as well as the earliest gestures of West Coast video art." Robert Koehler, CinemaScope
Drawing from the sweeping array of film, video and animation featured in MoMA’s blockbuster retrospective in New York earlier this year, this unique four-day program offers Los Angeles filmgoers a rich panorama of some of the most innovative and artistically daring work made at CalArts over the past 35 years. CalArts faculty and staff have teamed up with Tomorrowland curator Joshua Siegel to compile a series of highlights from the three-month-long MoMA survey—the most extensive ever devoted to an American film school.

Organized and coordinated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud with Joshua Siegel, assistant curator, The Museum of Modern Art.
Maria Vasilkovsky Fur and Feathers (2000) 5 min.
A surrealist Slavic tango between a bird-man and a dog-woman, animated with watercolor on glass.
Gary Schwartz Animus (1982) 6 min.
Ingenious reworking of Edison and Muybridge films through animation and xerography.
Michael Patterson Commuter (1981) 5 min.
This take on rush hour in the naked city foreshadows Patterson’s legendary music video for a-ha, Take on Me.
Adam Beckett Sausage City
Ken Bruce (Pixar) Sis
Brooke Keesling Boobie Girl (2001) 5 min.
A flat-chested girl regrets what she wished for.
George Wiechelns Family (2004) 3 min.
A family romance, told with dolls and constructed sets, becomes a creepy roundelay of punishment and reconciliation.
JJ Villard Son of Satan (2004) 12 min.
Charles Bukowski’s cruel story of youth, animated with raw energy.
intermission
Colin Barton Unbearable Being (1996) 3 min.
A combustible handpainted collage.
Eric Darnell Filter Gallery (1991) 4 min.
The director of Dreamworks’ Madagascar and Antz experiments with tactility in this beautiful celluloid collage.
Karolina Sobecka Imprint (2003) 1 min.
A hand reaches out to grasp a frenetically shifting landscape.
Henry Selick Phases (1978) 4 min.
A mythopoetic cave painting by the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas and the upcoming Coraline.
Shon Kim Latent Sorrow (2005) 3 min.
Abstraction and figuration coalesce in this animated paean to Van Gogh and Jackson Pollack.
Jen Sachs The Velvet Tigress (2001) 11 min.
Animated documentary about the sensationalized “Trunk Murders” trial of 1931.
David Daniels Buzz Box (Re-Mix) (1985/2006) 9 min.
The creator of Peter Gabriel’s Big Time music video updates his “insanimated” critique of American politics and culture.
TRT approx. 82 min.