Suzan Pitt Animation

Friday, August 24 at 8:00 PM Flying Monkey Arts Center, 2211 Seminole Drive Admission $5 / $3 Film Co-op members

THE FILM El Doctor is a dark animated poem set in a crumbling Mexican hospital about 1920. Inhabited by surreal characters including the man shot with one hundred holes, the girl who sprouted morning-glories, and the woman who thinks she is a horse, the Doctor prefers to drink. The Saint of Holes and a mysterious gargoyle rearrange the Doctor's fated demise and send him on a dark and twisted journey. The film celebrates the nature of perception and the miraculous. Over five years in production the film was entirely hand-painted by artists in Los Angeles and Mexico. 24 min. AWARDS Suzan Pitt is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright Scholar Award, three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and a Rockefeller Fellowship. WEBSITE http://home.earthlink.net/~suzanpitt/