London International Animation Festival/Consuming Spirits FEATURE

0	LONDON: The Horse Hospital
P	Sunday 27th October, 2013
N	1:00am

LONDON: The Horse Hospital

Sunday 27th October, 2013

1:00am

Event information

Consuming Spirits
Director: Chris Sullivan
USA, 136’00, 2012

Over a decade in the making, CONSUMING SPIRITS is the hypnotic and elegiac first feature by award-winning animator Chris Sullivan. Set in a dreary Rustbelt town, the film follows late-night radio host Earl Gray, wilting violet Jenny, who cares for her foul-mouthed, Alzheimer's-stricken mother and Jenny’s sometime boyfriend Victor Blue, whose days teeter at the edge of sobriety. One evening while driving home, Jenny hits a nun in full habit on the highway, setting off a string of events that reveal a long and twisty history among Jenny, Earl, and Victor, involving family dysfunction, foster care, and old wounds longing to heal. Sullivan’s intricate hand-drawn and cut-out animations telegraph his characters’ conflicting and complicated emotions while depicting the minute tragedies and triumphs that make up a life.