Head (1975)

The most elaborate of his anticartoons as he calls them is HEAD 1975 an ingenious witty essay on making filmed photographed drawn painted and Xeroxed images move Reverberating between multimedia versions of the same events playing with disjunctions between figure and ground HEAD is a trickfilm meditation on portraiture the animator as actor lives through his drawings which in turn become actors who influence his own selfimage An insiders diary on the process of creation HEAD is a brilliant encyclopedic exploration of the circular relationship between the animator and his creation of the nature of animated illusion itself Thelma Schenkel Millimeter