{"id":988,"date":"2004-05-06T14:42:52","date_gmt":"2004-05-06T20:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=988"},"modified":"2025-01-10T09:30:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:30:41","slug":"puppet-animations-by-lisa-barcy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2004\/05\/06\/puppet-animations-by-lisa-barcy\/","title":{"rendered":"Puppet Animations by Lisa Barcy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Thursday, May 6, 2004, 8:15pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>Lisa Barcy in person!<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Escape is at the center of Lisa Barcy\u2019s dark, if playful, animations. Always looking for the closest exit, her neurotic protagonists \u2013 paper cutouts, 3-D puppets, or lumps of moving clay \u2013 are prone to leaping without looking first, inviting disaster into their dreamlike worlds. Like a nature documentary from Mars, <em>The Ordovicians<\/em> (2004) fills the screen with weirdly twitching objects. In the romance-novel inspired <em>Woman Without a Past <\/em>(2003), the artist\u2019s alter ego is harassed by the single piece of paper she most wants to discard. <em>The Guilt Trip<\/em> (2003) is a stop-motion road movie starring Jesus and Mary Magdalene, with the Pope in hot pursuit. A dazzling combination of live-action video, Bunraku puppets and animated silhouettes, <em>Mermaid<\/em> (2004) stretches absurdity to its tragicomic limit, as a marriage of marine biologists is threatened by an eerily fetching giant squid (Jim Trainor). 2003\u20142004, Lisa Barcy, USA, ca. 70 min, various formats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, May 6, 2004, 8:15pm Lisa Barcy in person! Escape is at the center of Lisa Barcy\u2019s dark, if playful, animations. Always looking for the closest exit, her neurotic protagonists \u2013 paper cutouts, 3-D puppets, or lumps of moving clay \u2013 are prone to leaping without looking first, inviting disaster into their dreamlike worlds. Like [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2004\/05\/06\/puppet-animations-by-lisa-barcy\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Puppet Animations by Lisa Barcy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[70,423,518,615],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9","tag-animation","tag-monographic-shows","tag-saic-faculty","tag-usa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10130,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/10130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}