Frank & Caroline Mouris
1973
Frank and Caroline Mouris are independent filmmakers who specialize in animation and collage. They have selected several examples of their work and the work of other independent makers to present a celebration of short films. They will provide film commentary and answer questions immediately following the screenings. The couple's 1973 classic short, Frank Film, an animated autobiography of Frank Mouris, received an Academy Award and was selected in 1996 for inclusion in the National Film Registry, which preserves films deemed to be "culturally, historically and esthetically important." Frank Film, because of its innovative and energetic use of collage, has exerted an influence on succeeding generations of animators. The couple's 1999 short, Frankly Caroline, is a deliberately comic and self-conscious attempt to create a film about Caroline Mouris analogous to Frank Film. The film is as much about the couple's collaborative process, and the squabbles inevitable in a working relationship, as it is about Caroline herself. Other short films by the Mouris's to be shown include Coney (1975), a stop-motion documentary, Screentest (1975), an experimental documentary funded by an America…
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