Lisa Crafts

Lisa Crafts is an American animator and moving image artist whose interdisciplinary work has addressed issues of environmental uncertainty, sexuality, creativity and chaos.^[1]

Practice

Her current body of work focuses on a series of short moving image pieces about the Anthropocene, revealing the horror, beauty, humor and loss of the epoch.^[2]

Crafts' work blends animation, video, photography, drawing, painting and sculpture. It has been exhibited in galleries, museums, theaters and film festivals including the Museum of Modern Art,

erotic animation which screened widely; was "banned in Boston"; was lost, found, and restored; and ended up in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.^[6]

Crafts teaches in the film-video department of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.

Crafts has collaborated with documentary filmmakers to create animation of dreams, memories and hallucinations. Notable work includes Michel Negroponte's Methodonia and I'm Dangerous With Love,

American Movie Classics, MTV and VH1.^[8] One of her Sesame Street animations, done solo, features the voice of the then-unknown anime voice actor Steve Blum

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Selected Animation and Moving Image Works

Season of Wonder[9]^[10], 2015
Still Life with Golden Apple, 2014
Spitopia, 2014
Oil Spill With Bird, 2013
3 Natures Mortes, 2010
Overgrowth, 2009
The Flooded Playground, 2005.^[11]^[12]
Shout!, 1985
The Octopus's Exultation, 1984
Glass Gardens, 1982
Pituitary, 1979
Desire Pie, 1976

References

^ ^a ^b "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Lisa Crafts". www.gf.org. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
^ AN EVENING WITH LISA CRAFTS on Vimeo
^ "Museum of Modern Art".
^ "Film Forum · Film Sources - F". filmforum.org. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
^ "Independent Women: 15 Years Of NYWIFT-Funded Film Preservation | Tribeca Film Festival". Tribeca. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
^ "The Collection | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
^ "Michel Negroponte: Filmography". www.michelnegroponte.com. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
^ "Michael Sporn Animation – Splog » Lisa Crafts – Independent Animator". www.michaelspornanimation.com. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
^ "Season of Wonder at Imagine Science, Paris". Archived from the original on 2016-06-04.
^ "Season of Wonder at Athens Film Festival". Archived from the original on 2016-04-11.
^ "Film Forum ·".
^ The Flooded Playground awards, Internet Movie Database

External links

[gf_lisa-crafts-1] "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Lisa Crafts". www.gf.org. Retrieved 2016-05-16.

[2] AN EVENING WITH LISA CRAFTS on Vimeo

[3] "Museum of Modern Art".

[4] "Film Forum · Film Sources - F". filmforum.org. Retrieved 2016-05-16.

[5] "Independent Women: 15 Years Of NYWIFT-Funded Film Preservation | Tribeca Film Festival". Tribeca. Retrieved 2016-05-16.

[6] "The Collection | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2016-05-16.

[7] "Michel Negroponte: Filmography". www.michelnegroponte.com. Retrieved 2016-05-16.

[8] "Michael Sporn Animation – Splog » Lisa Crafts – Independent Animator". www.michaelspornanimation.com. Retrieved 2016-05-16.

[9] "Season of Wonder at Imagine Science, Paris". Archived from the original on 2016-06-04.

[10] "Season of Wonder at Athens Film Festival". Archived from the original on 2016-04-11.

[11] "Film Forum ·".

[12] The Flooded Playground awards, Internet Movie Database

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