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PSYCH!April 9th, 2015 by Tristian
When you’ve had a long hard day facing the ugly truth, it helps to have a beer hall to turn to. After I escaped the dangers of corporate pranks and the hipster illusions of April Fool’s Day,my friend deposited me at the Brooklyn Brewery on N12th St in Williamsburg around 8o’clock. With an unnecessary QR code in hand, I picked up my ticket and a free beer token,from an online transaction that cost $5 with NO FEES! It was time for Animation Block Partywith the Brooklyn Brewery Mash, a festival of “dinner parties, comedy, screenings, debates,art” and beer, that will spread to New Orleans, Austin, Stockholm, and more. An excellentstop-motion trailer for the BBMash was made by David Sherwin, illustrating the truckshipments of mash to the brewery. There was a nice zinger when the truck passes in front ofan abandoned lot on Bedford Ave and reveals a new condo in its place.
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An Edison Cylinder Gramophone
The large hall was filled with benches arrayed in front of a modest pull down screen. Bitesize Halloween candies were thoughtfully deposited in clumps at every seat, with cheese-doodles and more. In the back were some tables with Sakura art supplies, and in the frontwas last year’s Art wall from the ABP festival. You had to purchase tokens at one end to getbeer at the other. Julia Pott designed an excellent set of stickers that they gave away forfree: Norman Rockwell’s The Gossips meets Williamsburg animals.
The night started off with Tom Stathes’ Cartoons on Film, with an Edison cylindergramophone from The Museum of Interesting Things. Farmer Alfalfa Sees New York (BrayStudios, 1916) kicked off the theme of New York City films. It’s a little odd to see the sameessential dramas of the city being played out with a 100 year time difference… the Farmergets targeted almost immediately by a flapper who tries to hoodwink him out of his moneywith too much champagne. Next came Felix Woos Whoopee (Pat Sullivan Studios, 1930). Felix has stumbled out of the club at 3am, and has to get home in one piece, struggling withnot-harassing strangers on the sidewalk, not-driving drunk, not-getting arrested, and not-
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waking up the wife when he gets home. And not-choking the chicken! Trouble (Van BuerenProductions, 1931) deals with two oafs literally chasing ambulances to practice as accidentlawyers, and ends in a very satisfying gag payoff. And finally, Skinny & Husky shows us themagic of children visiting Coney Island in what is essentially a message from the Board ofMilk People, as evidenced by a few frames of their placard thoughtfully left in the reel.
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ABP founder Casey Safron was there to introduce Tom and a round of modern animatedfilms from Family Camp, Anchovy Warhol, Leah Shore, Sean Buckelew, Sarah Miskoff, MikeHollingsworth, Exit 73 Studios, and more. Leah Shore was in attendance, and so were somepeople from Titmouse NYC. AND some friendly faces from our recent jury screenings!
Buckelew’s film was a B&W brushstroke inked on paper, of two people playing badmintonwith a computer generated V.O. that ended up being completely compelling. I finally got tosee Shore’s I Love You So Much, about her and a cutie ensconced in a womb-like tent,declaring their love for each other to ridiculous lengths, with shaky excited animationspringing off their live action bodies as they talk. I have “waterworld style” written down… I’m gonna guess she said: “I love you so much I want to drink you like…” no that doesn’twork. Guess you’ll just have to wait and see for yourself!
Casey Safron introduces Tom Stathes
Miskoff had a great film called SKINNY! about female-body issues, that starts off as someunconfident anime trope but blossoms into a Scott Pilgrim style think piece. Warhol’s#PUSSYJOEL a brilliant rendition of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” which shows aslide show of a cat you can adopt, each one named after a word in the song. The mostbrilliant was “Congo Hemmingway” which stayed on screen for much longer since it bridgedthe end of one stanza and the beginning of the next.
The closer of the evening was the crazy ass film Prison Pit by Johnny Ryan who animatedone of his own comic books. This is some coked up Superjail nonsense that is excitinglyviolent and gory and grossly sexual enough to freak out the two Upper East Side stiffs sittingnearby who (perhaps rightly so) had no tolerance for such a thing. OH BROOKLYN!
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It looks like the rest of the ABP Brooklyn Brewery Mash (Thru November) will featuredifferent rosters of local animators from city to city. Cya!!
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