{"id":952,"date":"2023-03-31T02:59:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T02:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westonlyonsite.com\/?page_id=952"},"modified":"2024-12-15T19:56:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T19:56:50","slug":"appendages","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/westonlyonsite.com\/?page_id=952","title":{"rendered":"Appendages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/813627383?h=8facaa53c4\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1048 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/westonlyonsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/APPENDAGES_Final_Alt_StarfishTissues-691x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"691\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westonlyonsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/APPENDAGES_Final_Alt_StarfishTissues-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/westonlyonsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/APPENDAGES_Final_Alt_StarfishTissues-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/westonlyonsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/APPENDAGES_Final_Alt_StarfishTissues-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/westonlyonsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/APPENDAGES_Final_Alt_StarfishTissues.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>1937 marked the release of the first fully-animated feature film. <em>Appendages<\/em> is a study of the moment preceding this milestone, where rigid departments of film labor separated women from men. The production of cell animation in the early days of the American studio system is really a story of gender lines and both an invitation for women to partake in the filmmaking process and a prevention of them advancing professionally beyond entry-level departments. <em>Appendages<\/em> brings together this site of animation labor and the action of a Starfish character (pulled from The Walt Disney Studio\u2019s 1937 short film, <em>Hawaiian Holiday<\/em>) reproducing photo-mechanically at an uncontrollable rate. The screen is eventually swarmed; the Starfish paralyzed in full gallop, perverted from the natural world but desperate to realign itself against the celerity of entertainment\u2019s working hours.<\/p>\n<p>The film\u2019s structure moves in and out of the Ink &amp; Painter\u2019s POV as she renders the Starfish form on celluloid sheets. In this space, the five-armed debutant is still, reified in a trademark studio animation style. Like loose frames of time, these cells catch rhythm under the multiplane camera and begin to play out in animation screen tests where physical distortions of animal mobility and behavior become more real than the marine life its gummy form is based on. The whirling of film projectors accompanies the rising and falling of the overlaid cell painting. In stride, the video\u2019s climax recalls imagery and sonics a la Ornette Coleman\u2019s Skies of America, whereas ambient moments of relative stillness over the desk on Hyperion Avenue neutralize a fugitivity of mechanized life. The Starfish body is divided, an occupant for the slippery assembly of the extranatural.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>HD Stereo, 2023<\/p>\n<p><em>Animator (Cast):<\/em> Sarah Lancaster<\/p>\n<p><em>Add\u2019l Animation:<\/em> Jake Hollander<\/p>\n<p><em>Composer:<\/em> Nick Flessa<\/p>\n<p><em>Score Mix:<\/em> Kern Haug<\/p>\n<p><em>Poster:<\/em> Mario Luna<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Broward College, FL, <em>South Gallery <\/em>April &#8211; September 2023<\/p>\n<p>Murmur Contemporary, <em>Melting Walls<\/em>, Montreux, SUI April &#8211; May 2024<\/p>\n<p>Mientras tanto CINE, Montevideo, URU February 2024<\/p>\n<p>Festival Oodaaq, Rennes, FR May 2024<\/p>\n<p>Palm Springs Animation Fest, Palm Springs, CA June 2024<\/p>\n<p>Mexico City Independent Film Fest, CDMX July 2024<\/p>\n<p>aCinema, Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, WI July 2024<\/p>\n<p>Blow-Up Arthouse Film Festival, Chicago, IL January 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; 1937 marked the release of the first fully-animated feature film. 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