note special price: $10 General, $8 Student
A self-taught animator, Brent Green uses the beauty of detritus and the hand-made to create dystopic worlds inspired by his own family history. Green writes, directs, builds, and narrates his short film animations, combining handcrafted figures with drawings and found props to create haunting, atmospheric backdrops for his alluringly twisted stories. "With his lunatic preacher voice, Green prefers to narrate his films live with [his] band and instruments like the saw and banjo. Green is inventing his own form of live performance animation." (Whitehot Magazine) Green's adamantly hand-made films have screened at the Sundance Film Festival, the Getty Museum, Walker Arts Center and the Andy Warhol Museum among others. "Some of the most original animations we have seen in years." (NY Times) Tonight he'll perform his films with indie musicians Brendan Canty (Fugazi), Jim Becker (Califone), Alan Scalpone (The Bitter Tears) and Rodney McLaughlin.
Green will also give an artist's talk at the Johnson Museum on Thursday, Sept 25 at 5:15pm. More at nervousfilms.com. Video projection. Cosponsored with the CCA, the Johnson Museum of Art and the Dept. of Art.
Approximate running time 2 hours