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Animated Documentaries part 2 - Rendering the Facts
Monday April 13, 8:00 pm
The Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theatre
611 N Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, 90036
323-655-2510
Admission $12 general, $8 for Cinefamily and Filmforum members
Tickets and more details for this show at
http://www.silentmovietheatre.com/calendar/events.html

Tonight we'll look at difficult and entertaining assortment of films where the animation serves as visual reportage, representing "the facts." From the winsome or rough tales of the loss of virginity in Jonas Odell's Never Like the First Time to the bouncy remixed score of sweetpea growers in England in Samantha Moore's Success with Sweetpeas, these films draw upon interviews and historical events. We'll also be including such works as the "Men in Black" segment of Richard Robbins' Oscar-nominated documentary Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, Jennifer Sachs' The Velvet Tigress which looks at a 1930s murderess, and the original animated documentary, The Sinking of the Lusitania by Winsor McKay, which also raises the question of where documentary meets propaganda. And more!

• The Sinking of the Lusitania by Winsor McKay (1916, 12 min, USA.)
• Enter Life by Faith Hubley (1982, 6 min., USA, for Smithsonian Natural History museum)
• Adventures in Music: Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom! (1953, 10 min., Disney Studios)
• The Velvet Tigress by Jen Sachs (2001, 11 min, 16mm, USA)
• Excerpt from Shay's Rebellion - America's First Civil War by R.J. Cutler, animation by Bill Plympton (2004, 45 min, video, USA)
• Forest Murmurs by Jonathan Hodgson (2006, 12:30, UK)
• Success with Sweetpeas by Samantha Moore (2006, 6:30, UK)
• Hidden by David Aronowitsch and Hanna Heilborn (2002, 8 min., video, Sweden)
• "Men in Black" segment from Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, by Richard Robbins (2007, 6 min., from video, USA)
• His Mother's Voice by Dennis Tupicoff (1997, 15 min, 35mm, Australia)
• Never like the First Time by Jonas Odell (2005, 14:30, video, Sweden)

Los Angeles Filmforum is the city's longest-running organization that screens non-commercial experimental and avant-garde films and video art, documentaries, and animation. 2009 is its 33rd year.

Location Name:  The Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theatre

Address: 611 N Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, 90036 ,

Tel: 323-655-2510