Insight programs at Mill Valley Film Festival explore the art and craft of significant filmmakers in depth.
THE ART OF TIMOTHY HITTLE
JAY CLAY TRILOGY
If you've seen Timothy Hittle's Jay Clay shorts, you know these tiny jewels epitomize the animator's art: In these dialogue-free stop motion melodramas, a shrug of clay and the jaunty slur of a sax express pure emotional longing, fear or joy, while a junk pile of everyday objects radiates with hallucinatory life. In this Insight Program, Hittle presents the now completed trilogy, shown together for the first time, including The Potato Hunter (1991), Academy Award-nominated Canhead (1996) and the premiere of The Quiet Life. Hittle will also discuss the animator's life and the painstaking craft that went into such films as Henry Selick's The Nightmare Before Christmas and James & the Giant Peach and Pixar's The Incredibles and Toy Story 2 and 3. Almost by definition, stop motion animation is a labor of love, and Hittle is a supremely dedicated keeper of the flame.
Saturday, October 9
5:00 pm, $12.50 JAYC09T
142 Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley
