#suzanpitt

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CSS EXTRA CREDIT / Asparagus

Dir. Suzan Pitt, 1979

[the-art-of-animated-gifs]

Suzan Pitt:  RIP (She was at heart a Gif Artist)

The Artist and Animator Suzan Pitt recently passed away.

As a film student, I saw her film Asparagus many times.  It was an instant classic of experimental animation and feminist film making.  Pitt, along with Sally Cruikshank and Kathy Rose, have had I believe a strong influence on many young women animators today.

In the great documentary about her (https://www.suzanpitt.com/persistence-of-vision) she says this about her classic film Asparagus from 1979:

“I think Asparagus....you could come into it almost at any point....you could start at the middle....and it would be the same complex of ideas....it’s really, a kind of a circle”

This is, for the most part, the definition of an animated gif.

Back in the 1970s, due to the limitations of mechanical film projection no one considered making films as short as animated gifs are today and no one though of viewing it as a loop because you could not do that yet.  But some artists who were originally painters like Suzan Pitt that were seduced by the idea of motion paintings approached their work that way in terms of time. Non narrative.  No real beginning middle and end.  It is a stream of imagery that exists in time, but it out of time as well.

Of course now since everyone has a computer in their pocket, and on their desk and in their lap and everywhere else artists can create things this way and have it be seen by millions of people.  But sadly, just like when Suzan Pitt was creating Asparagus, there is no real money in it.  Maybe that is why she came up with the idea of painting clothes.  You can sell them.

[imagella-blog]

Pages de coloriage de tête de licorne, dans le style d'ombrage lumineux

Pages De Coloriage De Licorne #licorne #pagesacolorier #ombragelumineux #patriciapiccinini #suzanpitt #sherryakrami #hauteresolution #31:24

[mocherz]

#suzanpitt #pinball #experimental #animation #avantgarde (at Linwood Dunn Theater At Academy's Pickford Center For Motion Picture Study)

[youngparis]

This is NOT a warning Patricia Field & Suzan Pitt‼️ stay tuned✊🏿.. #DeathToBlackFace #PatriciaField #Suzanpitt #Jimcrow #sambo #blackface (at New York Fashion Week)

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Asparagus (1978)

Suzan Pitt’s 1978 animation classic “Asparagus” used to be screened along with David Lynch’s “Eraserhead” at the time of its release. Many short pieces of hers were released before then since 1970. After long hiatuses, Suzan came back with equally captivating animation films in 1995 and 2006. Her latest to this day, “Visitation”, came out in 2011.