Highlights from Selected Events
Animated Curiosities
Our recurring series of mind-bending short films from our film curator, Bryan Parcival! Bryan lectures on animation and film at RISD and Harvard when he’s not spending time in Detroit or attending animation festivals around the world. For our summer screenings, he sources short films from diverse countries and presents them with entertaining introductions. Please check back for our next show!
Meatball in Repose
Who knew Mary Poppins drifted through the Renaissance? Or that ancient tombs can magically turn into aquariums filled with cows and crabs? The world is full of surprises, and some of them were on display in the beautiful Whitney Building in downtown Detroit. Designed by Bryan Parcival as part of CultureSource’s “Random Acts of Culture” series, our exhibition consisted of short animations of familiar paintings, projected on monitors inside lavish frames to catch the eyes of passersby. From floating fish to mythical apparitions, each painting revealed a hidden meaning – which occasionally came in the form of a meatball. Many people stopped to take a closer look, discovering something delightful and unexpected in each scene.
Islands of the Hollow Earth
Our aquatic performance floated up an eastside canal in Detroit as part of the Totems Arts Festival, merging local plane crash history, outlandish terrestrial lore, warring cargo cults and an appearance from the Hollow Earth Queen and her cohort of mystical underwater creatures – all steeped in a crackpot of absurdity.
Photos by Tod Seelie
