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film and video art
Duration: 00:06:40
Originally conceived as a toy theater performance piece, Storybook Apocalypse (or, The Ship’s Cat) takes its cues from Robert Louis Stevenson-style “boys’ adventure” stories. The piece aims to turn this template inside-out, building an introspective story focused on the interior life of a runaway child who tries to stow away on a merchant ship. Part bedtime story, part melodrama, all told with found objects and images.
DIRECTOR, ANIMATOR : Gina Marie Napolitan
VOICE : Moira MacDonald
MUSIC : Beaux Mingus
CONTACTS / LINKS : gina-napolitan.com @alreadyhomesick_studio
Bio
Gina Marie Napolitan is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work encompasses animation, experimental film practices, painting, collage, and printmaking. Raised in the Boston area and currently living in Los Angeles, Gina draws inspiration from the collective cultural memory of America and the unreliability of our perception of the past. Her work is populated by distorted miniatures, found objects, dusty houses, and nameless ghosts. She’s won awards, received artist residencies, shown work in galleries, and screened at film festivals, but she spends most of her free time working as an art educator with Echo Park Film Center Collective and lecturer at CSU Long Beach. Gina received her BFA in Film from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and her MFA in Experimental Animation at the California Institute of the Arts.
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Pebbles Underground is focused on showcasing and promoting experimental, avant-garde, underground, and no-to-low budget projects by artist-humans from all over the world. Absurd, uncanny, witty, humorous, slow-video – all are welcomed, and loved. Pebbles Underground is an independent project not funded by any government or corporation, and we intend to keep it that way. Main source of funding is personal donations from humans organizing the project, who are artists themselves, and the main drive of the project is formed by the energy and involvement of the organizers, and the public.