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“Working-class Latino hood, crossed with crazy artist, crossed with left-wing radical,” so the legendary underground cartoonist Spain Rodriguez is described in this intimate portrait by his wife, Emmy-nominated filmmaker Susan Stern.
Cut paper animation, draws on an audio interview with the director's Aunt Cynthia, as a strategy to explore storytelling passed on between generations, especially as inflected by assimilation.
Animation of an animation that makes a sculpture.
Angels Going to Work is built from audio of my mother and grandmother discussing anxiety in the night. I’m interested in stories that take the shape of a spiral, routines—like the return to bed—that begin to outline larger stories. They are often about the ways loss finds form in the grooves worn into daily life. Like a hole thrown on a cartoon wall, they make physical what is only an absence.