Screenings

Consuming Spirits

Xcèntric, the CCCB's cinema

First feature by US underground filmmaker Chris Sullivan. Almost exclusively using manual techniques, a 16 mm camera and 15 years of work (with the help of friends and family), it dramatizes a personal story. However, Consuming Spirits is more than an obsessively disciplined artisan piece; the outsider, sometimes naïf aesthetic contrasts with a dark, painful adult fantasy. This is a singular work, full of family secrets, sexual nostalgia, sometimes grotesque and tragicomic. The drawings, cut-outs and miniature sets form a world reminiscent of graphic novels like David Small’s Stitches or Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home. The mix of savage hyperrealist narrative and visual invention make Consuming Spirits a vital yet unclassifiable work on the animated film scene.

 

Consuming Spirits, Chris Sullivan, 2012, video, 136 min. OV with Spanish Subtitles.

Date
23 April 2015
Times

20h

Space
The Auditorium
Admission fee

1 session: 4 € / Concessions: 3 € /
5-session pass: 15 € / Concessions: 12 €
Friends of the CCCB: free of charge

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