Starting Wednesday, August 26th, ASIFA-Atlanta, in conjunction with the Atlanta Underground Film Festival, will be putting on Animation Attack! 2009 . Most screenings will be at the Midtown Art Cinema, in addition to a special screening of Bruce Bickford’s 47-minute, psychedelic clay animated Cas’l (see excerpt below), accompanied by a live soundtrack performed by Omelet, at Eyedrum on at 11:00pm. There will be screenings of selected short films at the Midtown on August 26th at 8:30pm and Thursday, August 27th at 9:30 pm, as well as a showing of Nina Paley’s Sita Sings the Blues at The Five Spot. A full schedule can be found here.
Bruce Bickford’s Cas’l (excerpt)
On Wednesday night, make sure you check out the “Max the Hero” cartoon, which was produced & directed by Mike Salva; written & performed by Bill Corbett, Kevin Murphy, and Michael J. Nelson. (You might know them from Rifftrax or Mystery Science Theater 3000.)