Personal Cinema: Lisa Crafts
Fri, Sep 12
|Millennium Film Workshop
Time & Location
Sep 12, 2025, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Millennium Film Workshop, 167 Wilson Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11237, USA
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About the event
Desire & Dystopia: The Personal Cinema of Lisa Crafts
Curated by Michèle Saint-Michel
September 12, 2025, 7:30PM
Millennium Film Workshop, Brooklyn, NY
Millennium Film Workshop is proud to present Desire & Dystopia: The Personal Cinema of Lisa Crafts, a rare evening devoted to the films and animated works of visionary artist Lisa Crafts. Curated by Michèle Saint-Michel, the program surveys nearly five decades of groundbreaking work that spans erotic cel animation, ecological poetics, and multidisciplinary experiments in moving image.
From her infamous 1979 debut Desire Pie, a bold erotic cartoon seized by Cambridge police the very day it opened, now housed in the Museum of Modern Art, to her most recent animated installations exploring environmental precarity, Crafts has continually redefined the very language of animation. Her practice refuses boundaries: cel and cut-out animation, live performance collaborations, installations, and hybrid works that blur still life, landscape, and dream worlds. The result…