CARTUNE XPREZ

HOOLIGANSHIP is a grunge rock inspired dance-off duo that combines highly orchestrated cell phone tunes with freak-out animations for a sensory-overload multimedia party.
( sample movie )

SLOW DANCE RECYTTAL is a live music video performance that takes place on a stage with giant glowing inflatable gems. Inspired by Googlemania and an over-saturation of visual culture, it portrays a world of excess and multiplicity amplified live clarinet and bass.
( sample movie )

Michael Bell-Smith's Keep on Moving (Don't Stop): The more things change the more they stay the same (outside the box is inside a bigger box).

Michael Bell-Smith's Top of the World: An aerial tour of planes, a skyscraper, space and exploding arrows.

Phillipe Blanchard's Taco Monde: An animated, absurdist exploration of North American popular culture and fast food. It deals ironically with themes like sensory overload and the obsession for interactivity. Made for the 5th anniversary of the Bookmobile Project.

Martha Colburn's Secrets of Mexuality: A dense and highly detailed film exploring sexuality in the specific realms of Mexican wrestling and kitsch paintings through rapid-fire transformations.

James Duesing's Maxwell's Demon: In an information and service based economy, industrialists are corralled on a reservation to sell plastic things as remnants of their past culture. The story turns on the suicide of Fashionette's fish, because of bad water conditions, and ends with a large-scale chemical fire.

Gretchen Hogue's Where's My Boyfriend?: A biological clock explosion! Penises and Fetuses.... this one's for the ladies. Can you hear the ticking?

Cassandra C Jones' Eventide: A Snap-Motion Re-Animation of the sunset, an icon in snapshot photography. It is a collection of 1,391 photographs that are placed in succession to reveal a story about innate aesthetics and one grand universal tie that binds us.

Amy Lockhart's A Single Tear: An “epic” adventure featuring diamond guy, a dog fish and a boot. Watch and see what happens! This little zinger was created using cut-outs, drawings and collage, (filmed under the camera and manipulated as digital multi-plane animation).

Amy Lockhart's 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! Created using over 1000 hand painted paper cutouts, puppets and backgrounds.

Luke Meeken and Andrew Negrey's The Little Fox: Envisioned in the tradition of a Russian animal tale, this wordless film describes the awe and discovery of two friends' experiences during their fleeting moment together.

Takeshi Murata's Cone Eater: A Rorschach field of melting colors mesmerizes your cones and rods in a trance.

Takeshi Murata's Monster Movie : Handmande digital artifacting fuses with a dancing monster to create this psychedelic portrait.

Paper Rad's How to Escape Stress Boxes: Little Dude follows a couple trolls through a pixellated landscape in search for a way out.

Drew Pavelchak's What Ten Planets Tilt for This and The Monkey Writes : Newspaper animations that use the international and national news from the New York Times for visual content and sound. The result is a recontextualizion of headline information crafted into a new narrative.

Francine Spiegel's Moments in Love: A diamond life clip art fantasy adventure. Relax and enjoy this world of porcelain kittens and gold chain obstacles with a booty bass elevator soundtrack.

Jim Trainor's The Moschops: Crude marker drawings depict the slow existential lives of a prehistoric animal herd.

contact us at hooliganship@gmail.com

This event showcases live multimedia performances by SLOW DANCE RECYTTAL and HOOLIGANSHIP alongside a collection of contemporary animated videos from the US and Canada. It crisscrosses between hyper-color flash graphics, coniferous computer worlds, found photo mash-ups, and twitchy sharpie marks on paper. Prehistoric quadrupeds battle ennui, suicidal protagonists stumble through pixelated video game landscapes, the Sunday New York Times re-animates headline narratives, action/adventure hits new highs on a chalkboard - as all these artists grapple with their over-the-counter media of choice. ( check our fall 2006 tour dates )

Performances:
	HOOLIGANSHIP is a grunge rock inspired dance-off duo that combines highly orchestrated cell phone tunes with freak-out animations for a sensory-overload multimedia party. ( sample movie )
	SLOW DANCE RECYTTAL is a live music video performance that takes place on a stage with giant glowing inflatable gems. Inspired by Googlemania and an over-saturation of visual culture, it portrays a world of excess and multiplicity amplified live clarinet and bass. ( sample movie )

Participating animations:
	*Michael Bell-Smith's Keep on Moving (Don't Stop):* The more things change the more they stay the same (outside the box is inside a bigger box).
	*Michael Bell-Smith's Top of the World: An aerial tour of planes, a skyscraper, space and exploding arrows.*
	Phillipe Blanchard's Taco Monde: An animated, absurdist exploration of North American popular culture and fast food. It deals ironically with themes like sensory overload and the obsession for interactivity. Made for the 5th anniversary of the Bookmobile Project.
	Martha Colburn's Secrets of Mexuality: A dense and highly detailed film exploring sexuality in the specific realms of Mexican wrestling and kitsch paintings through rapid-fire transformations.
	James Duesing's Maxwell's Demon: In an information and service based economy, industrialists are corralled on a reservation to sell plastic things as remnants of their past culture. The story turns on the suicide of Fashionette's fish, because of bad water conditions, and ends with a large-scale chemical fire.
	*Gretchen Hogue's Where's My Boyfriend?: A biological clock explosion! Penises and Fetuses.... this one's for the ladies. Can you hear the ticking?*
	*Hooliganship's Satandeathsnaketrainawesome: A chalkboard animation* action adventure. Blood, monsters, and skateboarding shot on a webcam.**
	Cassandra C Jones' Eventide: A Snap-Motion Re-Animation of the sunset, an icon in snapshot photography. It is a collection of 1,391 photographs that are placed in succession to reveal a story about innate aesthetics and one grand universal tie that binds us.
	Amy Lockhart's A Single Tear: An “epic” adventure featuring diamond guy, a dog fish and a boot. Watch and see what happens! This little zinger was created using cut-outs, drawings and collage, (filmed under the camera and manipulated as digital multi-plane animation).
	Amy Lockhart's 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! Created using over 1000 hand painted paper cutouts, puppets and backgrounds.
	Luke Meeken and Andrew Negrey's The Little Fox: Envisioned in the tradition of a Russian animal tale, this wordless film describes the awe and discovery of two friends' experiences during their fleeting moment together.
	*Takeshi Murata's Cone Eater: A Rorschach field of melting colors mesmerizes your cones and rods in a trance.*
	Takeshi Murata's Monster Movie : Handmande digital artifacting fuses with a dancing monster to create this psychedelic portrait.
	*Paper Rad's How to Escape Stress Boxes: Little Dude follows a couple trolls through a pixellated landscape in search for a way out.*
	Drew Pavelchak's What Ten Planets Tilt for This and The Monkey Writes : Newspaper animations that use the international and national news from the New York Times for visual content and sound. The result is a recontextualizion of headline information crafted into a new narrative.
	Francine Spiegel's Moments in Love: A diamond life clip art fantasy adventure. Relax and enjoy this world of porcelain kittens and gold chain obstacles with a booty bass elevator soundtrack.
	*Jim Trainor's The Moschops: Crude marker drawings depict the slow existential lives of a prehistoric animal herd.*
contact us at hooliganship@gmail.com
copyright 2006. peter burr. christopher doulgeris. cassandra c jones.

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