Award winning animator Steven Subotnick will be screening a selection of his work tonight at the AS220 Perfomance Space. Doors open at 5:30pm & films start at 6pm. Free!
Steven's animated films are associative explorations of themes found in history, folklore, and his own unconscious; he treats each film as a poetic essay on a particular subject. His animations are alchemical - thought, motion, sound, art, narrative, and abstraction all combine to create a new substance. As a visual artist, he believes in the expressive power of materials - that technique and content are inseparable - that ideas only become real when they are tangible. His method is similar to documentary filmmaking in that he spends time intuitively creating images and animated scenes before he imposes a filmic structure. The film's final narrative grows organically out of the accumulated material through the process of editing and designing sound.
