All events are in the Faulconer Gallery and/or Bucksbaum Rotunda unless otherwise noted.

Opening Reception with artist Serge Onnen
Friday, 6 February, 2009. 4:30-6 pm

Video Game Concert by Minneapolis emotronic band Tender Meat
Friday, 6 February, 2009. 6 -7:30 pm
Sponsored by Grinnell Concerts

Animated Painting Resource Table
February 6 - April 19, 2009
You are welcome to add DVD's containing your own animated works to our resource table. Please send copies only, as DVD's will not be returned. The resource table will include books, articles, DVDs, computer and screen.

Film: My Life as McDull (not rated)
Saturday, 7 February, 2009. 1 pm
Sponsored by Cultural Films Committee
While obviously a children's film, this Hong Kong animated feature (2001) has enough to enlighten and charm adults. Mc Dull is not the brightest kid on the block, but he continually tries to do his best and please his mother. Although it seems that he may not be destined for great things in life as his mother wishes, McDull never gives up.

Yoga in the Gallery with Jenn Mavin
Wednesday, 11 February, 2009. 12 - 1 pm
Wednesday, 11 March, 2009. 12 - 1 pm
Wednesday, 8 April, 2009. 12 - 1 pm
No experience necessary, Mats provided.


Artist Talk: Kota Ezawa
Friday, 13 February, 2009. 4:15 pm
Born in Cologne, Germany, and now based in San Francisco, Kota Ezawa explores the construction of collective memory by hand drawing over live-action footage to meticulously re-create famous sequences from film, video, or photographic documentation of iconic political and cultural heroes.

Film: Punch Drunk Love (rated R)
Friday, 13 February, 2009. 7 pm
Sponsored by Cultural Films Committee
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. With Adam Sandler, Jason Andrews, Don McManus, and animations by Jeremy Blake. 2002.

Gallery talk: Victoria Lu
Monday, 16 February, 2009. 4:15
Shanghai-based critic and curator Victoria Lu will discuss works in the exhibition in the context of the Chinese Animation and Comics Festivals.

YouTube Open Screening
Friday, 20 February, 2009. 7 pm
What's the best animation you've seen on YouTube? Come to the Faulconer Gallery and screen your favorite YouTube clip. Refreshments, a computer and projector will be provided.

Saturday Morning Cartoons @ 1 pm
Saturday, 21 February, 1 pm
Saturday, 7 March, 2009. 1 pm
Saturday, 11 April, 2009. 1 pm
Each Saturday we will present a different selection of short animations from the past 100 years. See our website for a complete program listing. Coffee and doughnuts provided.

Film: The Book of the Dead (not rated)
Saturday, 28 February, 2009. 1 pm
Sponsored by Cultural Films Committee
82-year-old animator Kihachiro Kawamoto's masterpiece (2005) tells the adventure of a young noble girl in 8th-century Japan who leaves her home to follow the apparition of an executed prince in this ravishing film of beauty and mysticism.

Open Mic: Poetry, Fiction, Music
Wednesday, 4 March, 2009. 7:45 pm
Co-sponsored by Grinnell College Libraries
Read from your own poetry and fiction or that of a favorite author; perform music you've written or a selection you wish to share. A piano and refreshments will be provided.

Gallery talk: Tiffany Johnson Bidler, "Why Animate Paintings?"
Thursday, 5 March, 2009. 4:15 pm
Tiffany Johnson Bidler, Instructor in Art, will explore how considerations of performance and memory influence the work of artists who use both animation and painting.

Gallery talk: Betti-Sue Hertz", Folding Animation into Contemporary Art"
Tuesday, 10 March, 2009. 4:15 pm
In her talk, exhibition curator Betti-Sue Hertz will consider how time-based animation expands the artistic practice of painting, and particularly how it shapes the potential for social commentary in these seductive and subjective works of art.

Spring Break
March 14-29, 2009
Faulconer Gallery will be open. Check our website for our hours

Writers @ Grinnell: Michael Hofmann
April 3, 2009. 7 pm
Poet and translator Michael Hofmann was born in Freiburg, West Germany. He has twice been the winner of the Weidenfeld Translation Prize and his Selected Poems was published in 2008. His latest book is a translation of Fallada's Alone in Berlin (2009).

Community Day
Saturday, 4 April, 2009. 1:30-3 pm
People of all ages are invited to try out a variety of fun animation techniques-flip books, painting on Plexiglas, drawing on film, claymation and simple paper cutouts. Enjoy a tour of Animated Painting and refreshments.

Animation Open Screening
Thursday, 9 April, 2009. 7-8:30 pm
Do you Animate? Artists of all ages are invited to bring a DVD of finished animations or works in process for viewing. Professor Matthew Kluber will host this event. We will provide computer, projector, screen and refreshments.

Sponsored by Cultural Films Committee


Caravaggio (Rated R)
Monday, 6 April, 7 pm
Derek Jarman reveals the seventeenth-century painter's complex life-his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and flirtations with the underworld- in a uniquely complex and lucid treatment of violence, history, homosexuality, and the relationship between film and painting. Caravaggio incorporates the painter's precise aesthetic into the movie's own visuals and uses the style and mood of his paintings to reflect his life. The result is Jarman's most profound, unsettling and astonishing reflection on art, sexuality and identity. 1986.

Aelita: Queen of Mars (not rated)
Wednesday, 8 April, 7 pm
A silent film directed by Soviet filmmaker Yakov Protazanov released in 1924 based on Alexi Tolstoy's novel of the same name. Probably the first full-length movie about space travel, the most notable part of the film remains its remarkable constructivist Martian sets and costumes designed by Aleksandra Ekster.


A Zed and Two Noughts(rated R)
Friday 10 April, 7 pm
Two brothers, working in a European zoo, suddenly lose their wives to a terrible car crash. One brother, unable to accept what has happened, begins to photograph the decay of animal corpses. The other brother carries out his wife's wishes, and sets free a succession of animals. A bizarre and unexpected story emerges. Created by Peter Greenaway (1985), featuring a memorable soundtrack by Michael Nyman.

Phantom Museums-The Short Films of the Quay Brothers (not rated)
Monday, 13 April, 7 pm
American identical twins working in London, the Brothers Quay (Stephen and Timothy) find their inspiration in Eastern European literature and classical music and art, their work distinguished by its dark humor and an uncanny feeling for color and texture. Masters of miniaturization, they turn their tiny sets into unforgettable worlds suggestive of long-repressed childhood dreams. 1984-2004.

Film Noir (not rated)
Wednesday, 15 April, 6:30 pm
Private detective Sam Ruben's clever plan falls apart with the onset of amnesia. Everyone is trying to kill him and he doesn't know why. The classic film noir milieu is an animated feature directed by D. Jud Jones and Risto Topaloski, written by D. Jud Jones. 2007.

Paprika (rated R)
Friday, 17 April, 7 pm
This Japanese animated science fiction film, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1933 novel of the same name, follows a psychologist who uses a device that permits therapists to help patients by entering their dreams. Directed by Satoshi Kon, animated by Madhouse Studios, and produced and distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment. Music composed by Susumu Hirasawa. 2006.

Animated Painting is organized by the San Diego Museum of Art.


Serge Onnen, Counterfeiterphilanthrope, 2007. Two hand-drawn animation video projections on opposite walls of a wallpapered room. (8 x 9 x 17 ft. [2.44 x 2.74 x 5.18 m]) Color, sound; 56 sec. and 7 sec., continuous loops. Courtesy of the artist and Caren Golden Fine Art, New York