A Beautiful Stop-Mo Meditation on Creation in the Face of Death
The Cinefamily – Los Angeles, CA
12/4/10

Backwoods wunderkind Brent Green returns to Cinefamily with his first feature Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then in time for the Los Angeles Animation Festival.  The film is also accompanied by a live band featuring Brendan Canty of Fugazi and Howe Gelb of Giant Sand! Gravity, a visionary labor of love and lunacy that echoes the mournful, carefully hewn artfulness of Green’s early experimental animations, follows the surreal true story of Leonard Wood, a Kentucky hardware clerk who in the ‘70s built a strangely-shaped, nearly German Expressionist house on his property in the belief that it could cure his wife’s terminal cancer. Green’s fevered narration belies a deep understanding of the subject’s compassionate compulsions; for the film’s set, Green referred to plans Wood had scrawled on a piece of cardboard to reconstruct his home, four other houses, a handmade piano, a sixteen-foot glowing moon, and a giant, wooden God. Sitting comfortably between the wistful, knowing decay of Guy Maddin and the beautiful, caustic wisdom of Flannery O’ Connor, Gravity testifies to the potential redemptive sanctity of human creation.

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