Event
BRETT INGRAM SHORTS with Q&A
SPENT
Dir. Brett Ingram and Christina Clum, 1994
USA. 7 min
SPENT is a dark stop-motion tableau about chaos, control, and destiny featuring an unlikely cast of puppets. Set to a mantra-like score resembling a self-help tape from hell, trapped demons and prisoners of monotony populate a craggy subterranean purgatory, each driven to its own course of destiny by an apocalyptic cyclist. brettingram.com
PANIC ATTACK
Dir. Brett Ingram, 2000
USA. 13 minutes
Imagine your body telling your brain it doesnt want it in there anymore, says Reade Whinnem, and then doing everything it can to try and make it leave. Whinnem suffers from Panic Anxiety Disorder, and in Panic Attack, we are taken full-throttle into Whinnems living nightmare. Juxtaposing stark monochromatic interviews with colorful home movies, stop-motion animation, and hyperkinetic time lapse cinematography, this short film illustrates with expressionistic force the physical and emotional roller-coaster ride Whinnem calls daily life, affirming the courage and determination it takes to survive battles no one else can witness. brettingram.com
FREAK BOX
Dir. Brett Ingram, 1999
USA. 1 min
What do an organ grinder monkey, camera-headed robot, and two numbed out teenagers have in common? The symbiotic processes of the idiot box, as it turns out. Freak Box is a stop-motion satire of the lulling effects of television, an insidious electromechanical circus where viewers project and find themselves in the deceivingly homogenous pixel array. brettingram.com
MOON PLOW
Dir. Brett Ingram, 1992
USA. 1 min
Moon Plow is an abstract experiment in line animation, loosely inspired by Native American creation myths with a dark, contemporary twist. brettingram.com
MARS 1 & MARS 2
Dir. Brett Ingram, 1996
USA, 7 min
Short film pieces originally designed to run as loops as part of a large multimedia installation in a gallery environment, repurposed and combined for the Spectacles screen.
ARMOR OF GOD
Dir. Brett Ingram and Jim Haverkamp, 2001
USA. 13 min
Ear-splitting improvisational noise sculpture and Christianity are rarely mentioned in the same breath, but for percussionist Scotty Irving these twin passions form the core of his one-man act, Clang Quartet. Inspired by biblical verse and utilizing homemade instruments, costumes, and found objects, Irving serves up dramatic aural and visual symbolism at unfathomable volumes, challenging his audience to rethink traditional ideas of music and spirituality. When Irvings motivations for walking so far out on musical and theological limbs are revealed, the armor of God becomes a metaphor for the courage to create and the power to silence ones inner critic. brettingram.com
LUCK OF A FOGHORN
Dir. Brett Ingram, 2008
USA. 28 min
Luck of a Foghorn is a documentary featurette about Seattle underground animator Bruce Bickford, former collaborator of musician Frank Zappa and creator of Prometheus Garden, one of the most original stop-motion films in animation history. Interweaving Bickfords pulsing, violent, magical, and mesmerizing clay animation with atmospheric 16mm and Super 8mm cinematography, home movies, and sparse interviews, Luck of a Foghorn takes viewers behind the scenes and deep into the garden of Prometheus. brettingram.com
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LocationSPECTACLE THEATER (View)
184 S. 3RD ST
BROOKLYN, NY 11211
United States
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| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
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