Brent Green: Animated Films and Live Music
with Brent Green, Howe Gelb and Brendan Canty
An animated-film maker, Brent Green uses the beauty of detritus and the hand-made to create dystopic worlds inspired by his own family history. Reminiscent of early Walt Disney or work by the Brothers Quay, Green’s films progress anxiously from one scene to the next with a melancholy that is brought forth from fantasy and human pathos. Kate Strassman writes: “With his lunatic preacher voice, Green prefers to narrate his films live with [his] band and instruments like the saw and banjo. Green is inventing his own form of live performance animation. This new breed of folk tales that hover between life and death, melancholy and joy, mesmerize the audience.” (Kate Strassman, Whitehot Magazine).
