Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Films by Suzan Pitt / A First Run Features Presentation ; created, painted, animated, and filmed by Suzan Pitt.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

In Asparagus, cel animation propels a protagonist into the world of the phallus, rendered here as a field of asparagus; Joy Street illustrates a woman's journey from suicidal dispair to personal renewal, with the help of an unlikely spirit guide; in El Doctor, a melancholic Mexican physician is transformed by the visit of a psychiatric saint, and performs miracles on an odd assortment of hospital patients.

Subjects:

Asparagus -- Drama.

Suicidal behavior -- Drama.

Miracles -- Drama.

Genre:

Short films.

Animated films.

Other Author:

Pitt, Suzan.

Teitelbaum, Richard.

Nathanson, Roy.

Shook, James M.

First-Run Features (Firm)

Other Title:

El Doctor, Joy Street & Asparagus : the wonderfully strange and surreal animation of Suzan Pitt

Wonderfully strange and surreal animation of Suzan Pitt

Asparagus.

Joy Street.

El Doctor.

Notes:

Bonus features: Suzan Pitt: persistence of vision, a documentary by Blue and Laura Kraning ; Galleries ; Director's notes and biography.

Photographers, Suzan Pitt, Paul Crawford, Patricia Keller, Robert Beebe ; editing, Suzan Pitt, Blue Kraning, Philip Harrison ; animators, Suzan Pitt, Lauren Macmullen, Julie Zammarachi, Maria Vasilkovsky, Gerard Goulet, Rinat Gazizov ; creative and technical assistant, James M. Shook.; music, Richard Teitelbaum and Roy Nathanson.

El Doctor: Jose Luis Rodriguez Avalos.

DVD.

Contents:

Asparagus Joy Street El Doctor (2005, 24 min.).

ISBN:

0720229912334

5558149159

Publisher Number:

FRF 912334D

Other Number:

76881368

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

762114

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Films by