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"Tinged with elements of magic realism and Mexican culture, and told using vivid oil colors, American animation El Doctor
is a dazzling, haunting and poignant evocation of a man's final moments."
(Chris Robinson, ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE)
"It's safe to say the legendarily absurdist Luis Buñuel might have
sparked to the sordid, gruesome charms of renowned animator Suzan Pitt's five-years-in-the-making short "El Doctor". A trippy,
magic-realist expedition through the mind of a pickled old Mexican doctor on his regret-filled last day on Earth, "El Doctor"
makes rich use of Pitt's hand-drawn movement technique: Her squirmy human (and nonhuman) forms wiggle in the frame like a
bacteria party in a festive petri dish. She also incorporates other dazzling experimental processes, including sand animation
and painting directly onto film stock. Overall the effect is playfully grim and somehow wondrous, an ode to the living, breathing
fantastic in Mexican folk art."
(Robert Abele, LA TIMES)
PRIZES:
Best Short Film, Sin Fronteras Film Festival, New Mexico (2006)
Special Jury Prize, Huesca International Film Festival, Spain (2006)
Best Animated Film, Ojai International Film Festival, Ojai, California (2006)
First Prize for Animation, Morelia International Film Festival, Michoacan, Morelia, Mexico (2006)
First Prize for Animation, Arizona International Film Festival, Tucson, Arizona (2007)
Special Jury Prize, I Reel Film Festival,
Seattle, Washington (2007)
Screenings:
2006:
SIN FRONTERAS FILM FESTIVAL, New Mexico
INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL Hiroshima, Japan
TAIWAN INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL, Taiwan
DALLAS VIDEO FEST
CINESOL
PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
OTTAWA INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL, Canada
DENVER FILM FESTIVAL
ANIMACOR, Cordoba, Spain
OJAI FILM FESTVAL
LOS ANGELES LATINO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
MORELIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Mexico
REDCAT THEATER, Disney Hall, Los Angeles
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York City "SUZAN PITT RETROSPECTIVE"
PBS Broadcast on WNET, New York
PBS Broadcast on KTEH, San Francisco
NEW JERSEY FILM FESTIVAL, New Brunswick, New Jersey
CINANIMA, Espineho, Portugal
BOSTON LATINO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
CINEFESTVAL, San Antonio, Texas
WEBSTER UNIVERSITY FILM SERIES, St.Louis
2007:
SANTA FE FILM FESTIVAL
KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE
IMAGE FORUM FILM FESTIVAL, Tokyo, Japan
CINANIMA
THE 14TH STUTTGART INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED FILM, Germany
CINE LAS AMERICAS
ARIZONA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
SAN FRANCISCO WOMEN'S FILM FESTIVAL
CINEMAS
SAN FRANCISCO INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL
NEW GENRE VIDEO FESTIVAL, Tulsa Oklahoma
PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA, Linz, Austria
FESTIVAL DE CINE ESPANOL, Spain
ANIMA MUNDI 2007, Brazil
MARYLAND FILM FESTIVAL
SICAF 2007 ANIMATED FILM FESTIVAL, Seoul, Korea
CORTOCINEMA 2007, Leon, Mexico
THE MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL (MIAF), Australia
NY VIDEO FESTIVAL AT LINCOLN CENTER, New York
LONDON INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL
SEATTLE 1 REEL FILM FESTIVAL, Seattle, Washington
ANIMATION MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL, Bendigo, Australia
KROK INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL, Ukraine
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS FESTIVAL OF FILM AND MEDIA ARTS, Washington DC
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