Lisa Crafts
2021Desire Pie
Lisa Crafts
Explicitly and unabashedly erotic, this humorous, fantasy-filled animation is a celebration of the joys of sex, set to a magnetic jazz score. Just under 5 minutes in length, this jubilant artefact from the sexually liberated '70s portrays a couple aided by additional lips, tongues, imaginings, and positions, featuring points of view rarely seen. Desire Pie is utilized in college courses on sexuality, women's studies, gender studies and for sex therapy. Desire Pie is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Desire Pie
Head Space
Lisa Crafts, Leah Shore
Spectacle is proud to present HEAD SPACE, a showcase of animated works exploring dimensions both interior and outlying. Featuring an extremely talented and creative group working in a diverse array of styles, the shorts wander through strange and sometimes sketchy landscapes, including alternate-universe appliance stores, the ramblings of Charles Manson, environmental catastrophes in the Dutch style of painting, and a houseplant’s musings. Some, like Sally Cruikshank’s Make Me Psychic, are established classics; others feature newer animators working in looping GIF format, presented away from the small screen’s momentary pleasures to fully appreciate the art that it is. Occasionally gross, often beautiful, and always interesting, HEAD SPACE is a sampler of the thoughts happening inside and out of each frame.
Head Space
4 Natures Mortes
Lisa Crafts
Dutch Golden Age still life paintings depict seductive wonders brought back by European explorers, traders and exploiters at a tremendous cost. The era was characterized by an explosive expansion of globalization, colonialism, the dawn of merchant capitalism and consumerist addiction. These animated paintings draw a line from that moment to the environmental crisis of our time.
4 Natures Mortes
Pituitary
Lisa Crafts
“It came from 1979! A paranoid tale of the myths and misconceptions surrounding body changes in adolescence. Found footage with hand drawn flourishes. In full 16mm punk-era unrestored decrepitude! Made in one week. Sound by Ground Zero, Boston.” —Lisa Crafts
Pituitary
