Anxious Animation

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Movie Review: Too much flash animation for my likeing
Summary: 2 Stars

Summary of Anxious Animation

Pioneering cut-and-paste artists Lewis Klahr and Janie Geiser are represented here by three and two shorts, respectively. While Klahr (with "Lulu," Altair," and "Pony Glass") plunders old magazines, comic books, and other printed ephemera to create loose, dreamlike visions of popular culture with a homoerotic bent, Geiser uses found objects, figurines, and cut-out backgrounds to explore elusive themes of love, loss, and primal urges of the sexual subconscious. In stark contrast, Jim Trainor's charmingly crude line animations ("The Bat" and "Moschops") play like nature shows from fantasyland, exploring the inner lives of animals that possess remarkable gifts of self-awareness. It's a safe bet that anyone outside of a major city will find these animated films nothing short of revelatory. As the DVD package accurately promises (with apologies to Talking Heads), "This ain't no Pixar. This ain't no Disney. This ain't no foolin' around." So if you're ready for a trippy trip to the outer fringes of moving picture art, you've come to the right DVD. --Jeff Shannon

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