Northwestern Events Calendar

May
22
2015

Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Chris Sullivan

When: Friday, May 22, 2015
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM CT

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

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

Contact: Sofia Leiby   (847) 491-7346

Group: Art Theory & Practice

Category: Fine Arts

Description:

Northwestern’s Department of Art Theory & Practice will host Chicago-based, experimental filmmaker Chris Sullivan for a screening and discussion. Sullivan is an animator, performance artist, and filmmaker.  He will be screening his film, Consuming Spirits, a hand-made independent feature animation shot frame-by-frame on 16mm using paper cut outs, models, and tracing paper cell
animation. It chronicles the lives of three characters who live in a rust belt town called Magguson, and work at its local newspaper The Daily Suggester. 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 inebriated 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. This screening is made possible by support from The Myers Foudations.

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