The Big Bad Wolf
Presented by AMOA-Arthouse and Fusebox Festival
Sunday, April 29, 8PM
Location: Amphitheater at AMOA-Arthouse at Laguna Gloria, 3809 35th Street in Austin
Free Admission
Aurora is honored to be commissioned by the new Austin Museum of Art-Arthouse to curate a unique outdoor screening at the Laguna Gloria Art Museum in Austin, TX on April 29th at 8PM in collaboration with Fusebox Festival.
Break out the glass slippers and red cloaks for this special screening of fairy tale inspired short films in the enchanted forest of Laguna Gloria. What began as an oral tradition has expanded into the moving image with animation, live action and documentary through contemporary interpretations of Brothers Grimm to Mother Goose to Moby Dick by contemporary artists and filmmakers.
Program is approximately 70 minutes and begins after dark. Picnics welcome. May not be suitable for children. In partnership with Fusebox Festival. For more information, please visit www.amoa.org.
Works included in this program include the following:
Hansel and Gretel, Lotte Reiniger, 10:00, 1954
Young Hansel and Gretel get lost in the forest, and stumble across a gingerbread cottage owned by an evil witch. Created with silhouette animation.
Sleeping Betty, Claude Cloutier, 9:13, 2007
Sleeping Betty is stuck in bed, victim to a strange bout of narcolepsy. The King calls on his subjects to rescue her and they all respond to the call: Uncle Henry VIII, Aunt Victoria, an oddly emotional alien, a funky witch and a handsome prince. But will a kiss really be enough to wake the sleeping princess?
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty, Nicky Phelan, 6:00, 2010
In this computer animated short film, Granny O'Grimm, a seemingly sweet old lady loses the plot as she tells her version of Sleeping Beauty to her terrified grandchild. Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty received an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short Film at the 2010 Academy Awards.
The Undertaker and the Dog, Shin Hashimoto, 4:00, 2010
Once upon a time, the undertaker met a pack of poor dogs. He handed them the born that he had created......
Night Hunter, Stacey Steers, 15:30, 2011
In this handmade film, composed of more than four thousand collages, the actress Lillian Gish is seamlessly appropriated from silent-era cinema and plunged into a new and haunting role. Night Hunter evokes a disquieting dreamscape, drawn from allegory, myth, and archetype. Music and sound by Larry Polansky.
Atalanta: 32 Years Later, Lynn Sachs, 5:00, 2006
A retelling of the age-old fairy tale of the beautiful princess in search of the perfect prince. In 1974, Marlo Thomas’ hip, liberal celebrity gang created a feminist version of the children’s parable for mainstream TV’s “Free To Be You and Me”.
The Hunter, Marieka Walsh, 6:00, 2012
A boy goes missing in the snow covered wilderness, feared taken by wolves. A hunter undertakes a journey to find the boy; dead or alive. As the hunter tracks the boy into the mountains, he discovers that his instincts can no longer be trusted. Here, far from civilization he must make decisions that will forever change his relationship with the wilderness he has always feared. The Hunter is a stop motion sand animation.
Old Fangs, Adrien Merigeau, 11:00, 2009
A young wolf decides to confront his father, whom he has not seen since he was a child.
Cinderella +++, Eileen Maxson, 2:00,
Aurora picks more than berries, Lady gets a new reputation, and Cinderella meets 90210.
Austin Museum of Art (AMOA) and Arthouse at the Jones Center (Arthouse) merged into a single museum with mission to provide rich environments for a wide range of audiences to investigate and experience excellence in modern and contemporary art. The museum accomplishes this through innovative exhibitions, education, interpretative programs and direct access to the creative process.
Fusebox is an annual contemporary art and performance festival that takes place in Austin, TX each April. This year’s dates are April 25 - May 5. Fusebox champions innovative works of art across a variety of different mediums. The festival acts as a catalyst for new ideas, new artistic models, and approaches to help us engage with the issues and questions that define contemporary life.