Screening Room with Suzan Pitt
From the Screening Room series
by Robert Gardner
color, 71 min, 1975/2005
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Independent animator and painter Suzan Pitt, whose surreal and psychological films have gained her worldwide acclaim, continually pushes the boundaries of the animated form, sometimes working with live actors or using animation in opera stagings. Her film Asparagus won the top prize at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival and showed in theatres with David Lynch's Eraserhead for two years. She has had major exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of Art, the Holly Solomon Gallery in New York, and the Stedlijk Museum in Amsterdam. She currently teaches at the California Institute of the Arts.
Suzan Pitt appeared on Screening Room in July, 1975. She screened and discussed Bowl, Garden, Theatre, Marble Game, Crocus, Cels, Whitney Promo, and Jefferson Circus Songs.
“This is animation with an adult sensibility, and it takes the medium to a whole new level. Bizarre, head-popping, delightful, and utterly one-of-a-kind.” — Todd David Schwartz, CBS
“Visually compellingÉpunchy and often shocking” — The New York Times
Suzan Pitt's personal website: http://home.earthlink.net/~suzanpitt Suzan Pitt's blog: suzanpitt.blogspot.com
About the Screening Room seriesIn the early 1970s a group of idealistic artists, lawyers, doctors and teachers saw an opportunity to change commercial television in Boston and the surrounding area. It would require years of litigation up to and including the Supreme Court, but the case was won and the Channel 5 license was given to WCVB-TV. Screening Room was one of several programs offered in an effort to provide alternative television viewing. The idea behind Screening Room was to give independent filmmakers an opportunity to discuss their work and show it to a large urban audience. Nearly 100 ninety-minute programs were produced and aired between 1973 and 1980.
Screening Room was developed and hosted by filmmaker Robert Gardner, who at the time, was Director of Harvard's Visual Arts Center and Chairman of its Visual and Environmental Studies Department. His own films include Dead Birds (1964), and Forest of Bliss (1986).
Other films from the Screening Room series
Alan Lomax
Bruce Baillie
Caroline Leaf & Mary Beams
Derek Lamb
George Griffin
Hillary Harris
Hollis Frampton
Jean Rouch
John & Faith Hubley
Jonas Mekas
Les Blank
Michael Snow
Peter Hutton
Ricky Leacock
Robert Breer
Robert Fulton
Standish Lawder & Stanley Cavell
Yvonne Rainer