CARTOON
FILM SERIES
To accompany our current exhibition, Provisions Library
features a summer film series on the history of comics and biographies of political
cartoonists and comic artists - many of which will enjoy their first public screening
in the US.
Politics
and Prose Bookstore will partner with Provisions for the entire film series,
making available discounted books after each screening.
Every Friday,
Resuming on Sept 8, 2006, 7 pm
FREE!
UPCOMING
FILMS:
Will
Eisner, Profession, Cartoonist
Part I: The Spirit, Part II:
The Dream, and Part III: Master Class
(Dir: Marisa Furtado,
2001, 100 minutes)
Friday, September 22, 7 pm
Only its second screening
in North America! All three parts of the brilliant documentary series on Will
Eisner's remarkable and long career -- which sums up the history of the medium
itself. PAST SCREENINGS
Tintin
and I
(Dir: Anders Ostergaard, 2003, 90 minutes)
Friday, July 7, 7 pm
Timed
to coincide with PBS' POV public release (on July 9). The film delves into the
mind of Herge, the Belgian creator of the series, and highlights the potent social
and political underpinnings that give TinTin's world such depth.
 Comic
Book Confidential
(Dir: Ron Mann, 1988, 90 minutes)
Friday,
July 14, 7 pm
A cult-classic documentary profiling twenty-two of the most
significant artists and writers working in comic books, graphic novels and strip-art
in North America today Hooked
on Comix
Parts I and II
(Dir: David
Moore, 1989, 90 mins)
Friday, July 28, 7 pm
Hooked on Comix: Life
on the Cutting Edge of an All-American Art Form showcases some of the greatest
second-generation underground or alternative/contemporary cartoonists working
today. Hooked on Comix is a lively and entertaining documentary that delves into
the dedicated and creative minds behind some of the most brilliant work in contemporary
comics.
Ducktators
(Dir: Walter Braamhorst, 1997, 46 mins)
Friday,
August 4, 7 pm
A rare film that blends documentary war footage from World War
II with archival animated material of the time to look at the use of cartoon animation
in delivering propaganda to both the general public and the armed forces. Funny
Ladies: A Portrait of Women Cartoonists
(Dir:
Pamela Briggs, 1988, 46 minutes)
Friday,
September 8, 7 pm
A
documentary that explores why there are so few women cartoonists in newspapers
and how the ones who are there made it into the field. Features interviews with
Cathy Guisewite, Nicole Hollander, Lynda Barry and Dale Messick. Najl-Al-Ali:
An Artist with Vision
(Dir: Kasim Abid, 1999, 52 minutes)
Friday,
September 15, 7 pm
A documentary of Palestinian political cartoonist Naji
Al-Ali who was shot in the face in the London offices of the Al Qabbas newspaper
as a result of his uncompromising critique of a regressive Arab political culture
and Western intervention in Arab affairs. |
