CARTUNE XPREZ
Cartune Xprez 2008 DVD is now available! Click here for more info!
cx08 cover

 



PSYCHEDELIC PRIMATES

Brooklyn's Monkeytown hosted this midnight screening of scattered visions. Marianna Ellenberg, Bradey Eros, and Cartune Xprez each curated hour-long sections of the program. All in all, the audience exposed their synapses to a vast cross-section of videos including work by Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage, Oskar Fischinger, and Michael Robinson (not to mention the selections we showed)!

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.
Eric Dyer
COPENHAGEN CYCLES

Using a vast assortment of hand-made zoetropes, Dyer pieces together a fluid portrait of his home.
E*Rock
TRIFORCE MINDPHAESER

The big bang in 10 minutes.
Adrian Freeman
SHAME FELLOW
A red-striped warrior demonstrates a simple transformation.
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.
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.
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
MICHAEIL 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.