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SNDAY MRNING XPREZ

This program kicked off a partnership between the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art and Cartune Xprez for the 2007 TBA Festival. It premiered at the Living Room Theatre in downtown Portland as 2 seperate screenings: Local Pokes (featuring all Northwest American artists) and International Vibrations (featuring artists from around the globe). The show was subsequently reprised as a single event at the Clinton Street Theatre in southeast Portland.

VDEO LYNE-UP

Bruce Bickford
INVERSION LAYER (EXCERPT)

A fast-moving pencil line-animation in which Bickford relentlessly transforms human figures and faces into peculiar beasts, burgers, and other oddities.

Philippe Blanchard
STUPID TRICKS 2

A series of perpetual motion machines and gravity-defying maneuvers aided by motion picture magic.

Martha Colburn
MEET ME IN WICHITA

This film fuses Osama Bin Laden into the fairytale Land of Oz. Terror ensues.

Christopher Doulgeris
WHATERFHALLCE
Colorful cartoon waterfalls with no bottom.
James Duesing
TUGGING THE WORM
A dark allegory that takes place in a utopian society dominated by militaristic landmarks and flashy billboards.
Eric Dyer
COPENHAGEN CYCLES

Using a vast assortment of hand-made zoetropes, Dyer pieces together a fluid portrait of his home-city.
E*Rock + Mumbleboy
SUPERHEROEZ

One day in the life of a superhero who has the power to change heads.
Amy Lockhart
WALK FOR WALK
A colourful tripped out animated landscape filled with catchy songs, eyeball kicks, goofball characters, and a great variety of babies: Warm Baby! Mister Baby! Rich Baby! And more!
Ara Peterson
TREETOPS
A deep optical illusion set to the music of Black Dice.

Nicolas Pittman
SYNAESTHETICS II

The artist brings his paintings to life with hypnotic simplicity.

Gretchen Hogue
FOREST OF THE FLOWERS

A diversity of wildlife spy some fellow creatures exhibiting carnal behavior.

Hooliganship
SUPER SELLODY

Self consuming pop starts playfully meditate on a their own spectatorship via cell phones.
Timo Katz
WHIRR

A cookie-cutter subdivision is cut up and reconstructed in a string of digital beats.
Jeff Kricshun
SINGSONG

This collection of animated doodles captures the puzzling perversion of middle school years.
Amy Lockhart
TELL MUMSY I LOVE HER
This is what happens when the Hollywood filter is taken off Canadian culture after 100 years of fermentation.
Corey Lunn
DARN DANCE

A series of paper cut-out vignettes crudely portray pop icons exhibiting crude behavior.
Shana Moulton
WHISPERING PINES 4
Part 4 from her extended series of shorts featuring Cynthia, an anxiety-ridden hypochondriac played by the artist. This episode explores the golden ratio through healing hands.
Takeshi Murata
CONE EATER
A hypnotic Rorschach assault of melting colors that mesmerizes your cones and rods.
James Sumner
I WILL TRUCK

A single movement displaced from the Dirty Projectors' animated opera about Don Henley.
Ola Vasiljeva
MICHAEL JACKSON TEACHING BIRDS TO SING

Taken from a 5-part portrait of MJ, this chapter reveals the pop stars magical ability to commune with nature.

Chel White
CHOREOGRAPHY FOR A COPY MACHINE

A fast-paced collage of humor and photocopy fetish.

Various Artists
CANDYJAM

David Anderson, karen Aqua, Craig Bartlett, Elizabeth Buttler, Paul Driessen, Tom Gasek, Joan Gratz, Christine Panushka, Joanna Priestley, and Marv Newland all use candy as their animation medium of choice.