PLASTIC PAPER: WINNIPEG’S FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED, ILLUSTRATED + PUPPET FILM presents:
AMERICAN POP
Ralph Bakshi | USA 1981 | 96min. Friday May 6th, 2011 – 7:00pm at the Park Theatre – 698 Osborne Winnipeg, Canada

Co-presented with Red River College

Tickets $10 advance / $12 Door

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Plastic Paper is extremely proud to present Ralph Bakshi in person to present his masterwork, American Pop – the story of four generations of a Russian-Jewish family of musicians levitra without prescription ottawa that parallels the history of American popular music in the 20th century. The film uses an early example of rotoscoping as well as a variety of other mixed media including water colors, computer graphics, live action shots, and archival footage. The voicework in this film is incredible, especially Ron Thompson as Tony and Marya “Mews” Small as his Joplin-esque muse Frankie; it’s rare to have so much nuance and genuine emotion come through animated film. Also featured in bit parts are the voices of Vincent Schiavelli as the theatre owner, Richard Moll as a beatnik poet and Fear guitarist Philo Cramer as himself.

GUEST BIO: RALPH BAKSHI

Active for over half a century, Ralph Bakshi is a self-taught artist who was initially inspired by The Ashcan School, and later by the Abstract Expressionists. New York City provided the physical and cultural environment that nurtured Bakshi’s imagination and that of his contemporaries; Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Francis Bacon and Chiam Soutine were his strongest influences. Bakshi made his name and living via animated films – the Spider Man television series, Fritz the Cat, Coonskin, Heavy Traffic, Lord of the Rings and Wizards among them – but after the release of American Pop in 1981 he became sedulously dedicated to his passionate dream of pursuing a career as a fine artist. While gaining renown for creating and directing cutting-edge and fiercely creative films that delivered a profound social impact, Bakshi developed a work ethic that has served him well in his private studio.

About the author:

Kier-La Janisse

Kier-La Janisse is a film writer and programmer, founder of Spectacular Optical Publications and The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. She has been a programmer for the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema and Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, co-founded Montreal microcinema Blue Sunshine, founded the CineMuerte Horror Film Festival (1999-2005) in Vancouver, was the Festival Director of Monster Fest in Melbourne, Australia and was the subject of the documentary Celluloid Horror (2005). She is the author of A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (FAB Press, 2007) and House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (FAB Press, 2012) and contributed to Destroy All Movies!! The Complete Guide to Punks on Film (Fantagraphics, 2011), Recovering 1940s Horror: Traces of a Lost Decade (Lexington, 2014) The Canadian Horror Film: Terror of the Soul (University of Toronto Press, 2015) and We Are the Martians: The Legacy of Nigel Kneale (PS Press, 2017). She co-edited (with Paul Corupe) and published the anthology books KID POWER! (2014), Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015), Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin (2017) and Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television (2017). She edited the book Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (forthcoming), and is currently co-authoring (with Amy Searles) the book ‘Unhealthy and Aberrant’: Depictions of Horror Fandom in Film and Television and co-curating (with Clint Enns) an anthology book on the films of Robert Downey, Sr., as well as writing a monograph about Monte Hellman’s Cockfighter. She was a producer on Mike Malloy’s Eurocrime: the Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the ’70s and Sean Hogan’s We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea and her first film as director/producer, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror is due out from Severin Films in 2020.