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May
22
2015

Block Cinema Presents: Chris Sullivan

When: Friday, May 22, 2015
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM CT

Where: Block Museum of Art, Mary and Leigh, , 40 Arts Circle Drive , Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Cost: Block members; University faculty, staff 4.00 ; public 6.00

Contact: Block Museum of Art   (847) 491-4000

Group: Block Museum of Art

Category: Fine Arts

Description:

Northwestern University’s Department of Art Theory & Practice will host Chicago-based animator, performance artist and experimental filmmaker, Chris Sullivan for a screening of his film, Consuming Spirits (2012), a handmade independent feature animation shot frame-by-frame on 16mm using paper cut outs, models, and tracing paper cell animation. The film chronicles the lives of three characters that live in a rust belt town called Magguson and work at its local newspaper The Daily Suggester. They are: Gentian Violet 42, Victor Blue 38 and Earl Gray 64, who first appear to be acquaintances. But as the film unfolds, we find they have a long diabolical history, revolving around social service intervention, foster care, romance and hatred. Each character has family secrets to hide, and family secrets to discover. An auto accident one dark and alcohol-filled night causes a crack in the memory vault of these intimate strangers. By film's end all parties walk from the woods, both healed and wounded. There will be a Q&A with Chris Sullivan following the screening.

 

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