Myths, Legends and Lies
Posted by | Conversations at the Edge | Posted on | October 24, 2002
Thursday, October 24, 2002, 8pm
1925—2002, various directors, USA/Hungary, ca. 105 min, 16mm
The mythic imagination runs amok in this program of a dozen animated and live-action films programmed by Jim Trainor, animator and professor of film at the School of the Art Institute. Includes: Aristophanes on Broadway (1991, Zack Stiglicz), Daumë (2001, Ben Russell), Everready (ca. 1925, Anonymous), Evil of Dracula (1997, Martha Colburn), God the Pugilist (1996, Zack Stiglicz), Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (1994, Chris Sullivan), Peace on Earth (1939, Hugh Harmon), Pony Glass (1997, Lewis Klahr), Riverbody (1970, Anne Severson), Syrinx (1964, Ryan Larkin), Sisyphus (1975, Marcell Jankovics), Terra Incognita (2002, Ben Russell). (Jim Trainor)
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