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. →

PRISM is pleased to present the exhibition titled Over Time, featuring new works by Jonathan Zawada. The exhibition will open Thursday, December 16th from 6-8 pm and will be on view at the gallery through Saturday February 12th, 2011.

The Sydney-based artist will present paintings, drawings and a video installation in his first solo show in the United States. Zawada deftly works in the different mediums, exploring though each a response to his self-imposed query of creating visible permanence to his daily and virtual experiences. →

LAAF International Festival
The Cinefamily – Los Angeles, CA
12/3 thru 12/7/10

Animation fans rejoice — The Los Angeles Animation Festival International comes to Cinefamily, from December 3rd-7th! Cinefamily is thrilled to be working with the producers of LA’s own animation festival on this wonderful artistic enterprise — and this year’s events include the U.S. premiere of the new Jan Švankmajer feature, Pixar’s Teddy Newton discussing his acclaimed hand drawn/3D/CG short Day & Night, plus guest of honor Will Vinton presenting his short films, specials, commercials and a 25th anniversary screening of his 1985 Claymation feature The Adventures of Mark Twain. →

After six amazing years at the Do-Over’s home away from home, Cranes Hollywood Tavern has officially closed its doors. The Do-Over folks would like to thank the owner Darren Crane, his incredible staff and all of the loyal patrons who made this fine establishment such a special place for The Do-Over and provided years of memories. →