STOP & GO Rides Again!

Hallwalls is pleased to kick off a year of animations (with upcoming visits by Emily Hubley and Brent Green) with an evening of experimental shorts curated by San Francisco filmmaker and visual artist Sarah Klein. Stop & Go Rides Again follows a tremendously successful European and American tour of the stop-motion animation series Stop & Go, which Hallwalls screened to enthusiastic audiences in January 2009. This screening presents a diverse collection of stop-motion animations by Bay Area and international artists as they unveil their most recent experiments in animation and comment on everything from the simple beauty of a rubber ball to the history of evolution. Artists and filmmakers delve into the labor-intensive process of stop-motion animation by manipulating everyday materials by hand—such as colored paper, photographs, toys, cardboard, fabric scraps and even facial hair—to create optical experiences, cardboard creatures, shadow puppets, and a handy how-to on making homemade hooch.

TENDERLOIN DREAMSCAPES (Paz de la Calzada & Michael Rauner)
A dream landscape of murals weaves through an idealized urban environment. On closer inspection the murals reveal themselves to be original works of ink on paper.

THE GWEN STEFANI GRAND BURIAL EXHIBITION TRAILER (Kathy Aoki)
A futuristic commercial for the mortuary temple of midriff in the reign of the pop empire period known as The Tragic Kingdom.

BEARD TOUPEE, GONE TOMORROW (Reed Anderson & Daniel Davidson)
A hair swap of the finest proportions.

FACTORY (Miwa Matreyek)
Integrating action and performance the artist steps into a fantastical world of animation.

CANDLE (Evelien Lohbeck)
A confusing reality of illusion and expectations.

SPRING AWAKENING (Almut Determeyer, with music by Elena Kats-Chernin)
An analogy to budding love through flowering vegetation.

HOUSE COAT (Sarah Klein)
Flying spoons, chandelier trees and quilted hillsides lead to new adventures for a modern day woman.

STREAMING GRADIENT (Jen Stark)
A hypnotic voyage through a psychedelic tunnel of hand-cut paper.

THE DOPPELGAENGER SERIES: LOUIS CARROL (David O'Kane)
A hundred paintings layered over one another, obliterating each layer over time but the under-layer remains subtly present.

HOW TO INSTALL THE SCULPTURE (Tucker Nichols, with music by Jon Nichols)
The unbuilding and rebuilding of a sculpture of collected balls, rolls of tape and other assorted things from the artist's studio.

12 BALL (Ara Peterson)
A basic toy explores pattern and motion to create an immersive optical illusion.

MITRE CLOUD (Andy Vogt)
Wood scraps from the artist's studio assume monumental status when they are blown out of proportion through camera trickery.

GRAY AREA (Andy Vogt)
A time-lapse document of a sculpture as light travels through it over the course of several days.

DANDELION WINE (Melinda Stone & Sam Sharkey)
A bit of urban homesteading leads to a sing-a-long wine song.

IT'S NOT THE TEA IT'S WHO YOU DRINK IT WITH (Lizzie Black, Alessandra Ausenda & Anna Maria Murphy)
An enchanting memoir based on the true life stories of Granny, her family, and those around her.

HOY (Scott Wolniak)
An intricate visual experience that comments on the ubiquitous phenomena of flowing electronic imagery and info-junk.

CARDBOARD (Sjors Vervoort, with sound by Steven Aerts)
A playful set of cardboard characters come alive in the city.

SHADOW PLAYS, FIVE (Deborah Davidovits, with music by Bonnie Prince Billy)
Shadow puppets perform routine and unusual tasks to create a tale of visual and auditory rhythm.

A RECORD OF LIFE (Owen Gatley & Luke Jinks)
This piece explores the secrets of evolution and diversity of life on Earth.

STACIE (Mel Prest)
With the color palette chosen by its namesake, this piece documents the making of a painting, time-shifting 30 days into 30 seconds.

Some publications related to this event:
December, 2010 and January, 2011 - 2010