I worked and worked on the animation. To Many Men Strange Fates Are Given is rolling up to the Andrew Edlin Gallery in New York May 5-June 23.
It’s a sculpture (made with some brilliant RPI/EMPAC folks- Eric Ameres and Ryan Jenkins). Part of the sculpture is a 12-minute hand-drawn animation, roughly about the woman who made the spacesuit for Laika. Sort of. There’s no way to see the film outside of the sculpture, unless you’re standing next to me and I am standing next to my computer. Go to New York! There’s other things there, too. In New York.

EMPAC is starting a DVD/Blu-ray series!!! Of important art performances!!!

As if there needed to be more reasons to love those folks. Jem Cohen’s showing his new We Have An Anchor project up there. The band is incredible- Jim White, Guy Picciotto, members of A Silver Mt. Zion and Godspeed You Black Emperor. That thing’s going to be unreal. On April 27th: http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2012/spring/quote/cohen/

I was going to say EMPAC is including the Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then performance in its DVD set, but I kept saying it poorly, so I will say it again better later.

We’re doing Gravity live at Hallwalls in Buffalo. 7PM on March 4th. It’ll be good. http://www.hallwalls.org/media-arts/5213.html

Then, there’s a lecture with live band accompaniment- short films and rantings at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, March 28 at 6PM: http://www.saic.edu/art_design/vap/index.html#current_series/SLC_38429
It’s a pretty amazing lecture series. Ben Marcus, Sam Lipsyte and Marilyn Minter are right before me. The band for our thing is Jim Becker (Califone, Iron&Wine), Joe Adamik (Califone, Iron&Wine), Michael McGinley (the Bitter Tears, Califone, Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then) and Donna K (Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then).

After the SAIC thing, there’s a couple screenings of Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then- the theatrical version complete with wobbly homemade soundtrack- at the Gene Siskel Center:
Thursday, March 29, 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 31, 12:30 p.m.
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/gravity-was-everywhere-back-then

I don’t want to brag… but, that film I made in my backyard… MoMA just put it in their permanent collection. Crazy. Absolutely crazy.

Sean Uyehara hung out with us in Sundance and saw the layers upon layers upon layers of my EMPAC project out there so very quickly. He wrote this thing up for Fandor: http://www.fandor.com/blog/?p=11074

Incidentally, Fandor just put some of my short films on their site. They’re kind of a curated version of Netflix, only they cost less, have better films- tons and tons of incredible short films- All of Phil Mulloy’s short films. Phil Mulloy is fucking incredible. And you can see his films on Fandor. That’s what I was aiming to say.