Experimental Animations by Jane Aaron

(1974-1989 / 2019, 28 minutes)
Music & sound design by Donald Fagen; Larry Packer, Richard Grando & Steve Silverstein; Lee Dichter; & Andy Aaron. Digital restorations from 16mm film with thanks to New York Women in Film & Television, DuArt Media Services, Linda Young and Irwin Young. © 2019 In ...

(by Jane Aaron and Skip Blumberg, 1975, 3 min)

Alice Wexler, Skip Blumberg and Jane Aaron (in order of appearance) perform impossible choreography, antic stunts and magical tricks for a pixilating 16mm Bolex camera on location at Stony Clove Notch Pond in the heart of the Catskill Mountains.
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(1989, 4:50 min) Music: Donald Fagen
Screenings: Whitney Biennial, Annecy Animation Festival, New York & USA Film Festivals, PBS’s “Alive From Off Center.”+
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The camera breathlessly traverses landscapes and whirls into abstraction, a...

(1986, 3:55 min) Music: Donald Fagen
Screenings: Whitney Biennial, Annecy Animation Festival, New York & USA Film Festivals, PBS’s “Alive From Off Center.”

The camera breathlessly traverses landscapes and whirls into abstraction, all the while eye-ing fanciful foreground objects of domestic lif...

(1985, 2 min) Music: Donald Fagen
Awards: Stuttgart Animation Festival, Marin County & Sinking Creek Film Festivals.
Screenings: Whitney Biennial, Hirshhorn Museum, Annecy Animation Festival, New York, London, Sydney, & Oberhausen Film Festivals.

Taking weeks of frame-by-frame filming, the movi...

(1981, 6:15 min) Sound mix: Lee Dichter
Awards: American, Atlanta, Ann Arbor, Baltimore, Sinking Creek Film Festivals.
Screenings: Annecy Animation Festival, Edinburgh, Telluride, San Francisco, & Filmex Film Festivals, WNET, PBS’s ”Declaration of Independents.”

Aaron’s drawn imaginary world is...

(1980, 4:25 min)
Awards: Atlanta & Ann Arbor Film Festivals.
Screenings: Annecy and Ottawa Animation Festivals, Short Film Showcase, WNET.

A journey through the filmmaker's world (and imagination), from the intimacy of her bedroom and studio to the southern California desert and Adirondack moun...

(1977, 3 min) Music: Richard Grando, Larry Packer, & Steve Silverstein
Awards: Zagreb Animation Festival, Chicago & Marin County Film Festivals, ASIFA (international animation society).
Screenings: New York Film Festival, Filmex.

A collection of Aaron's early experiments combining live-acti...

(1974, 3 min) Music: Larry Packer & Richard Grando
Awards: Sinking Creek Film Festival.
Screenings: Zagreb Animation Festival, Films in the Park (NYC).

Annie Mae starts her day with fanciful looks out her window, and then reality sets in. The artist’s first film animation was drawn with col...