Also showing in Black Maria Film Festival as Program 6: Animation
Suzan Pitt (Los Angeles) has worked at the forefront of indie animation since 1970. Pitt’s work is recognized for the lavish hands-on quality of her animated drawings, which she combines with dark stories. This first New York retrospective includes her three major works: Asparagus (1979), Joy Street (1995), and the recently completed El Doctor (2006), all released for the first time on DVD by First Run Features. Asparagus (a visual poem like Joy Street) traveled for two years with David Lynch’s Eraserhead on the Midnight Movie circuit, rocking audiences with its rich cel animation and nightmarish plot. El Doctor—written by Blue Kraning and inspired by the Mexican belief in the miraculous, and featuring two sequences of experimental animation by Ben Zelkowicz and Naomi Uman—is Pitt’s first work using dialogue (Pitt collaborated with Mexican animator Dominique Jonnard to record the voices).

In the Film exhibitions MediaScope 2006 and Black Maria Film Festival: The Legacy of the Short Film

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