Here I tell stories about the animation and growing up in 70s Hawaii, Hotels and Hollywood, and how I came to love the story of Orpheus (through Hawaiian Mythology and Japanese shows.)
Wednesday, hotel is a riff on a series of tableaus in the corridor of a mysterious hotel in Jean Cocteau’s “Blood of a Poet” (1932). This animation is part of my hotel cycle, an autobiographical pursuit which weaves elements of memory and fiction in drawings, paintings, sculpture, and the moving image (see the “Hotel Mirror” and “Lobby Flowers” series). The constraints of Peepspace and the viewer’s confrontation with a literal hole in the wall offered an opportunity to pursue new ideas in a short form animation.
Listen to my talk via the Whitespace on Instgram
Courtesy Sandler Hudson Gallery