Chicago animator Chris Sullivan brings his work to Cornell Cinema

Chris Sullivan will present his acclaimed short film "Consuming Spirits," as well as a program of his other work, Thursday, March 29, at 7:15 p.m. in Willard Straight Theatre.

Cornell Cinema welcomes Chicago-based film animator Chris Sullivan at a screening of his film "Consuming Spirits" as well as other short films tonight, March 29, at 7:15 in Willard Straight Theatre. Admission is $4.50 general/$4 students and seniors.

"Consuming Spirits" (30 minutes) is "a creepily effective video animation which appears to be an outlandishly ghoulish cartoon fairy tale but is based on aspects of the artist's life," according to The New York Times. Sullivan, who does hand-drawn cell animations using thousands of drawings, says his films "are more moving drawings than dimensional spaces [and] often deal with the family as social unit, a social unit that is the real microcosmic reality that we wrestle with on a daily basis."

Sullivan also will introduce the short 16 mm films "Ain't Misbehavin'," "Master of Ceremonies" and "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus."

A recent recipient of both a Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundation fellowship, Sullivan was a featured artist at last year's Flaherty Film Seminar. His work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and as part of the Whitney Biennial program. He teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and his visit to Cornell Cinema is co-sponsored with the Central New York Programmer's Group, a program of the New York State Council on the Arts and Cornell Cinema.