The Children's Cinema, Presented by Dash Shaw

Crac!, Frédéric Back, 1981, digital projection, 15 mins
I’m Curious, Sally Cruikshank, 1992, digital projection, 2 mins
Face Like a Frog, Sally Cruikshank, 1987, digital projection, 5 mins
Flatland, Eric Martin, 1965, digital projection, 11 mins

The Children’s Cinema, Light Industry’s ongoing program for the junior moviegoer, returns with a special afternoon organized by cartoonist and animator Dash Shaw. The program begins with Frédéric Back’s Crac!, a movie that glides dreamily, wordlessly around a rocking chair as a century of history and industrialization unfolds around it. (The film was much admired by Hayao Miyazaki, who joked to Isao Takahata after they first saw it: “So, I guess we’re failures, aren’t we?”) From Back’s Quebec we proceed to the liquid realities of Sally Cruikshank—the Max Fleischer of the 80s—represented here with an old Sesame Street spot and her nuttiest outing, Face Like a Frog. Flatland keeps things brain-bendingly multi-dimensional, adapting Edwin A. Abbott’s mathematical romance about A. Square, rather fittingly, as a cartoon.

Expect all this plus a special, surprise film. And we encourage everyone to stick around after the screening for a drawing workshop led by Shaw (complimentary art materials will be available at the box office).

Please note: seating is limited. Box office opens at 1:30pm. No entry 10 minutes after start of show.

Host or Publisher Light Industry