Past Shows
STOP & GO

The first installment of Stop & Go was an 80-minute program of short works that highlighted the process of stop-motion animation in its many forms. The artists in the program breathed new life into magazine cutouts, homemade drawings, everyday objects and even the body itself. The program premiered at the Electric Works Gallery in San Francisco in 2008, and then toured throughout the United States, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany and Croatia until the summer of 2010. The audience was often treated to a Q & A session with artists in the program or heard live musical accompaniment by Melinda Stone. At some venues stop-motion workshops were offered as well.
CAMOKNIT by Claudia Tennyson
This darkly humorous view of knitting unravels the obsessive qualities and enormous popularity of the craft, which seems to coincide with the climate of fear generated by the ‘war on terror.’
ALARM CLOCK by Sean Horchy
Time makes its own music.
FOR THE BIRDS by Lilli Carré
A high-wire act of sleepytime bears, blackbirds, and senior folk.
MAMMOTH CAVE by Stephanie Hutin
A fantasy of toys, glitter, paper pieces and natural objects illustrate the music of Holopaw.
SQUEAK, CHIRP, HONK by Saelee Oh & Lana Kim
A friendly look at one of life’s little troubles from a mouse’s perspective.
TUMBLEWEED TOWN by Samara Halperin. Music by Corner Tour
Find true love with Todd the Tonka cowboy on his hitchhiking adventures through the Texas desert.
AMERICAN BANDITS by Philippe Vendrolini
A wild ride where altered and animated police risk life-and-limb in pursuit of manic deer.
PULLING DOWN THE SKY TO GIVE YOU THE SUN by Tommy Becker
A celestial piece that combines raw performance, music and costume.
PAPERMATION by Jen Stark. Sound by Eddie Alonso
A stop-motion piece of regurgitating rainbows and mysterious organic structures using intricate paper-cutouts.
THE COURTSHIP OF THE BIRDMAN by Pete Davies. Sound by Andrew Lynn & Angie Moore
A timeless tale of love and loss re-told in a saga of epic proportion.
SEWING FOR JESUS by Sherri Wood & Ignacio Alcantara
The construction of a quilt honoring the missing American and Iraqi citizens who died in the Iraq War.
HOWDY HATS by Judith Selby
A meet and greet of chapeau on the green.
PICTURE PERFECT by Meredith Holch
Old postcards and Vermont Life magazines are used to examine the rapidly changing character of life and landscape in rural Northern Vermont.
DOG JUDO - NOISE BOX by Andrew Kelleher
Rexley and Roy, two everyday dogs, both live for judo but have very different ideas on what it is.
BLACK CAT by SAF Cakovec Studio
A darkly funny animation of some characters and their mishaps.
POOP OR FLEUR by Melinda Stone
A series of still photographs shot in order and contact printed onto 35 mm film become a guessing game of sorts. Audience participation is requested to help identify what's on the screen.
WANDERLUST by Sarah Klein
Daily routine motivates the modern day woman to take a trip around the world.
THE MAKING OF THE KOZIK ACTION FIGURE by Mike Leavitt
Another action figure in Mike’s ever-expanding Art Army.
UNTITLED #90 by Aeneas Wilder
Using only red tape and four architectural posts, the artist creates an inspired series of configurations based on addition and subtraction.
ARITHMETIC by Laurie O'Brien. Sound by Michael McHam
An adaptation of In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan using puppetry, paper cutout animation, found sound and homemade instruments.
IMMIGRANT SONG by Mel Prest
This sequence chronicles the creation of a painting from spelled-out lyrics.

ICH BIN EIN MANIPULATOR by Clare Rojas & Andrew Jeffrey Wright

Altered, collaged and manipulated images from fashion magazines create an entirely different story.

Past Screenings

Studio Quercus, Oakland, CA, US, October, 2012
Electric Works Gallery, San Francisco, CA, April 2008.
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE, July 2008.
LA Filmforum at Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA, October 2008.
Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, January 2009.
Downtown Special Events, Las Vegas, NV, April 2009.
Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA May 2009.
Jack Straw Foundation, Seattle, WA. February 2010.
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, March 2010.
Threewalls Chicago, IL. March 2010.
The Aarhus Art Building, Denmark, March 2010.
OT301, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 2010.
Academy of Fine Arts Minerva Groningen, Netherlands, May 2010.
Kunst en Complex, Rotterdam, Netherlands, May 2010.
Fluctuating Images hosted at General Public, Berlin, Germany, May 2010.
Weltraum, Munich, Germany, May 2010.
Art Kino, Rijeka, Croatia, May 2010.
Tusakanac in association with Animafest, Zagreb, Croatia, May 2010.
DOKU Art, Bjelovar, Croatia, June 2010.
Kinoklub, Karlovac, Croatia, June 2010.
Cineclub, Split, Croatia, June 2010.
Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, NY, July 2010.

 
STOP & GO RIDES AGAIN

Curated by San Francisco filmmaker and visual artist Sarah Klein, Stop & Go Rides Again follows a tremendously successful European and American tour of the stop-motion animation series Stop & Go. A diverse collection of stop-motion animations by Bay Area and international artists unveil their most recent experiments in animation and comment on everything from the simple beauty of a rubber ball to the history of evolution. In these films, the artists and filmmakers delve into the labor-intensive process of stop-motion animation by manipulating everyday materials by hand—such as colored paper, photographs, toys, cardboard, fabric scraps and even facial hair—to create optical experiences, cardboard creatures, shadow puppets, and a handy how-to on making homemade hooch.

 
TENDERLOIN DREAMSCAPES  by Paz de la Calzada & Michael Rauner.
A dream landscape of murals weaves through an idealized urban environment. On closer inspection the murals reveal themselves to be original works of ink on paper.

THE GWEN STEFANI GRAND BURIAL EXHIBITION TRAILER  by Kathy Aoki.
A futuristic commercial for the mortuary temple of midriff in the reign of the pop empire period known as The Tragic Kingdom.

BEARD TOUPEE, GONE TOMORROW by Reed Anderson & Daniel Davidson
A hair swap of the finest proportions.
FACTORY by Miwa Matreyek.
Integrating action and performance the artist steps into a fantastical world of animation.

CANDLE by Evelien Lohbeck
A confusing reality of illusion and expectations.

SPRING AWAKENING by Almut Determeyer. Music by Elena Kats-Chernin
An analogy to budding love through flowering vegetation.

HOUSECOAT by Sarah Klein
Flying spoons, chandelier trees and quilted hillsides lead to new adventures for a modern day woman.

STREAMING GRADIENT by Jen Stark
A hypnotic voyage through a psychedelic tunnel of hand-cut paper.

THE DOPPELGAENGER SERIES: LOUIS CARROL by David O’Kane
A hundred paintings layered over one another, obliterating each layer over time but the under-layer remains subtly present.

HOW TO INSTALL THE SCULPUTRE by Tucker Nichols. Music by Jon Nichols
The unbuilding and rebuilding of a sculpture of collected balls, rolls of tape and other assorted things from the artist's studio.

12 BALL by Ara Peterson
A basic toy explores pattern and motion to create an immersive optical illusion.

MITRE CLOUD by Andy Vogt.
Wood scraps from the artist’s studio assume monumental status when they are blown out of proportion through camera trickery.

GRAY AREA by Andy Vogt
A time-lapse document of a sculpture as light travels through it over the course of several days. 

DANDELION WINE by Melinda Stone & Sam Sharkey
A bit of urban homesteading leads to a sing-a-long wine song.
IT’S NOT THE TEA IT’S WHO YOU DRINK IT WITH by Lizzie Black, Alessandra Ausenda & Anna Maria Murphy
An enchanting memoir based on the true life stories of Granny, her family, and those around her.

HOY by Scott Wolniak.
An intricate visual experience that comments on the ubiquitous phenomena of flowing electronic imagery and info-junk.

CARDBOARD by Sjors Vervoort. Sound by Steven Aerts
A playful set of cardboard characters come alive in the city.
SHADOW PLAYS, FIVE  by Deborah Davidovits. Music by Bonnie Prince Billy.
Shadow puppets perform routine and unusual tasks to create a tale of visual and auditory rhythm.
A RECORD OF LIFE by Owen Gatley & Luke Jinks.
This piece explores the secrets of evolution and diversity of life on Earth.
STACIE by Mel Prest.
With the color palette chosen by its namesake, this piece documents the making of a painting, time-shifting 30 days into 30 seconds.

Past Screenings

Z Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA, October 6 – November 5, 2011
Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, October 12, 2011
Antelope Valley College, Lancaster, CA, November 16, 2011
IS-projects, Leiden, NL, June 13, 2011 Import/Export, Munich, DE, June 11, 2011
Weltraum, Munich, DE, June 10, 2011
Fluctuating Images in Collaboration with Interventionsraum/Box Staatstheater Stuttgart, DE, June 9, 2011
Fluctuating Images in Collaboration with General Public, Berlin, DE, June 3, 2011
Kunst en Complex,Rotterdam, NL, May 29, 2011
The Glasshouse, Tel Aviv, IL, January 29, 2011
Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY, January 28, 2011
Studio Quercus, Oakland, CA, December, 2010
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA, October, 2010
Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA, October, 2010
Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, September, 2010

Press materials

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STOP & GO RIDES AGAIN - exhibition

The exhibition accompanying the Stop & Go Rides Again screening program examines in greater depth the connection between the artists' primary practice of painting, drawing, sculpture or performance and the processes used to make their animations.

In the spring of 2011 the Stop & Go Rides Again screening program toured along with an exhibition of physical artworks in the Netherlands and Germany. The entire exhibition was small enough to fit into a small portfolio and suitcase and was curated by Mel Prest.

For the homecoming exhibition of Stop & Go Rides Again at Z Space in San Francisco several of the local Stop & Go Rides Again artists made site specific, large-scale works and performance-based works for the space.