Art Film Talk

Colin Owens talks with Jeffu, the director behind the Film "Day of the Cabbage." The film is finishing post-production and will feature an all-vegetable cast, a cabbage villian and bushels of protagonists. Jeff's work is informed by Jet Li, as well as monster movies, William Wegman and others. "Day of the cabbage" will be released shortly and will be available for viewing at a film festival or farm stand near you.

Direct access to interview: artfilmdesign-2005-11-08 (MP3, 12:16, 5.41MB).

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David Tamés talks with Ryan Evans about comics, their language, their recent resurgence, and some aspects of their history. Recently, artists including Chris Ware, Robert Crumb, Dan Clowes, Harvey Pekar, and Joe Sacco have enjoyed a resurgence due to the popularity of adult graphic novels. Some of this has to do with movie adaptations, both superhero (The Incredible Hulk, Spiderman) and non-superhero (American Splendor, Ghost World), and book stores catering to specialized audiences and rise of the internet. Evans has taught film studies at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University and has lectured on the language and history of comics at the Maine College of Art and at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, where he has two upcoming events: a lecture titled "Superheros on the Silver Screen" on February 18, 2006, and "Reading Comics," a course scheduled for the Spring term (March, 2006).

Direct access to interview: artfilmdesign-2005-11-01 (MP3, 13:48, 11.1MB).

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David Tamés talks with artist Bren Bataclan about his Smile Boston Project. Two years ago, Bren began leaving his paintings of happy, whimsical, characters all over the Boston area for people to take with a note that says the painting is free if you promise to smile at strangers more often. Bren regularly exhibits his art work in galleries. Before becoming a painter Bren worked as a graphic designer in the dot-com world and prior to that taught computer graphics and design at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Boston Museum School. Listen to the interview (MP3, 14:50, 6.5MB) and visit his web site to learn more about his work.

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