苏赞·佩蒂是上世纪后四十最著名的独立实验动画艺术家，荒诞、超现实、性心理探求和突破传统都她作品被贴上的标签。她的《芦苇》在奥伯豪森短片电影节上获奖，而另一部《欢乐街》又在圣丹斯电影节，纽约电影节获最佳动画短片奖，她曾在德国工作，制作动画和支持着一家动画网络公司，又在1986年至1992年在美国哈佛大学教授动画等等。2006年也是在《欢乐街》11年之后她才推出了23分钟的新作讲述一位年老丑陋的医生走向死亡的故事，根据佩蒂在墨西哥创作的一组画作改编，剧本出自她的儿子之手。《医生》也是她第一次同专业配音演员合作。

中文名：苏赞·佩蒂

外文名：Suzan Pitt

职业：独立实验动画艺术家

主要成就：芦苇》在奥伯豪森短片电影节获奖

代表作品：《芦苇》《欢乐街》《医生》

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部分作品年表(Animated Films: Expanded Film and Installations:)

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苏赞·佩蒂是上世纪后四十最著名的独立实验动画艺术家之一，荒诞、超现实、性心理探求和突破传统都她作品被贴上的标签。她的《芦苇》曾和大卫·林奇的《橡皮头》同时在奥伯豪森短片电影节上获奖，而另一部《欢乐街》又在圣丹斯电影节，纽约电影节获最佳动画短片奖，她曾在德国工作，制作动画和支持着一家动画网络公司，又在1986年至1992年在美国哈佛大学教授动画等等。2006年也是在《欢乐街》11年之后她才推出了23分钟的新作讲述一位年老丑陋的医生走向死亡的故事，根据佩蒂在墨西哥创作的一组画作改编，剧本出自她的儿子之手。《医生》也是她第一次同专业配音演员合作。

Suzan Pitt自1970至今创造了15部动画作品，常常与音乐家合作，其中包括“碗（Bowl ）”(1970)、“芦笋（Asparagus ）”(1979)和“欢乐街（Joy Street ）”(1995)等。她的作品在全世界众多的电影节和、沙龙展、大学和博物馆播放，包括芝加哥艺术学会、徒步者艺术中心和耶鲁大学等地。她曾经获得包括洛克菲勒基金会合作基金（一个专为公共艺术作品所设立的奖项），富步莱特法案基金学者奖和哈福大学研究基金等。同时，她也任教于许多大学，近来在加利福利亚艺术学会执教。

部分作品年表

Animated Films:

EL DOCTOR (2006) - Director, Producer, Designer. 23 min., 35mm color. This hand-painted animated tale tells the story of the drunken EL DOCTOR and his surreal experiences in a crumbling Mexican hospital. The Saint of Holes rearranges the doctor’s perspective and leads him on a sad and funny journey through the miraculous.

2006 Best Short Film Award, Sin Fronteras Film Festival, Albuquerque, N.M.

Chicago Latino Film Festival

San Diego Latino Film Festival

Special Jury Prize, Huesca International Film Festival, Huesca, Spain

Cinema Pochote, Oaxaca, Mexico

Hiroshima International Festival of Animated Films, Japan

Taiwan International Festival of Animated films, Taipei “The Films

of Suzan Pitt”

New Jersey Film Festival “Suzan Pitt Retrospective”

Dallas Video Festival

Ottawa International Animation Festival, Ottawa, Ontario

Cinesol, Harlingen, Texas

Palm Springs International Short Film Festival, Palm Springs, Ca.

Estenest, Bucarest, Romania

theatrical engagements: May 10-23, 2006 The Film Forum, NY, NY

“Cartoons: No Laughing Matter”

May 25, 2006 Los Angeles Filmforum

“The Films of Suzan Pitt”

August 15-30, 2006 Mary Riepma Ross Media

Arts Center

“Suzan Pitt Animation”

Troubles The Cat (1996) – Director. Twelve 6 min. sequences, video, color. Airing on the Cartoon Network, produced at The Ink Tank, N.Y.C. for the Children’s Television Workshop. An educational television series for pre-school children, which explores issues of ethnicity and self-awareness. The first totally original cartoon based on Latino characters to air in the United States.

Joy Street (1995) – Director, Designer and Producer. 24 min., 35 mm, color. A visual poem with music by the Jazz Passengers about our psychological and spiritual need to preserve nature. Aired on PBS in 1996 and Channel Four in England in 1997.

1998 NEMN Gold Apple Award

1997 Merit Award, International Wildlife Film Festival, Montana

First Place for Short Film, Naples International Film Festival, Italy

1996 London Film Festival, England

Sundance Film Festival

Hiroshima International Animation Film Festival, Japan

Cardiff International Festival of Film Animation, England

Oslo International Animation Festival, Norway

Festival due Noveau Cinéma, Montreal

24th Wellington Film Festival, New Zealand

Jerusalem International Film Festival, Israel

First Prize, Black Maria Film Festival

Portland International Film Festival

Golden Gate Award, San Francisco International Film Festival

Cleveland International Film Festival

South by Southwest Film Festival

Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema

Arizona International Film Festival

Bumbershoot Film Festival, Seattle

1995 New York Film Festival

Colors/Colores (1995) – Director, Designer and Producer. 1 min. 15 sec. video, color. For the Public Broadcasting System. Five 15 sec. interstitial “spots” featuring bilingual characters (Spanish and English) for pre-school children aimed at increasing positive identity for children of Hispanic families.

Bam Video (1990) – Director, Designer and Producer. 3 min. video, color. Commissioned as a limited edition to raise funds for the Brooklyn Academy of Music. An animated mouse dance to “What A Wonderful World.” Also appeared on Showtime and MTV.

The Damnation Of Faust (1988) – Director and Designer. An opera by Hector Berlioz. One hour, 35 mm, color. For the Hamburg State Opera. The first “animation opera” in the history of opera design. Films were projected on front and rear screens built into the stage. These films became the psychological “under story” of the narrative development of Berlioz’s opera. Some were tightly synchronized to the orchestra (conducted by Gerd Albrecht) and some were used as backdrops. These were interspersed with large scenic paintings. 1988 Silver Mask Award, Friends of German Opera.

Surf Or Die (1987) – Director and Designer. 3 min. 35 mm, color. A music video for Profile Records, music by “The Surf M.C.’s.” A music video, which combined animation and live action. Aired on MTV.

Big Time (1986) – Storyboard and Animation. 3 min., 35 mm, color. For Warner Records, music by Peter Gabriel. A music video using elaborate model animation and starring Peter Gabriel. 1986 Best Music Video, MTV Music Awards.

The Magic Flute (1983-93) – Stage Design. Wiesbaden State Opera Theatre. Painted sets, costumes and animated films created for the Baroque Opera Stage in Wiesbaden, Germany. This production of The Magic Flute by Amadeus Mozart was in repertoire from 1983 through 1993. 1983 Production of the Year Award, Opera World Annual Award, Germany

Asparagus (1979) – Director, Designer and Producer. 20 min., 35 mm, color. An animated poem about the creative process. This short is one of the very few to move into theatrical distribution. Asparagus ran the midnight show circuit with David Lynch’s Eraserhead. The films played for two years at the Waverly Theatre in New York and the Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles.

1979 Main Prize and International Critics Prize, Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany

Best Film of 1978, International Association of Film Animation, ASIFA East Annual Awards

First Prize, Ann Arbor Film Festival

First Prize, Kenyon Film Festival

First Prize, Baltimore Film Festival

First Prize, Atlanta Independent Film and Video Festival

Jefferson Circus Songs (1973) – Director, Designer and Producer. 20 min., 16 mm, color. A pixilated fantasy starring Minneapolis school children in a painted environment. Music by the Minneapolis Children’s Orchestra. 1974 First Prize, Ann Arbor Film Festival.

Whitney Commercial (1973) – Director, Designer and Producer. 3 min., 16 mm, color. For the Whitney Museum of American Art. Commissioned by the Whitney Museum to raise money for their independent filmmaker program. A cutout animation featuring mini-movies in a coin operated box. This commercial ran with every screening at the Whitney for two years.

Cels (1972) 6 min., 16 mm, color

A City Trip (1972) 3 min., 16 mm, color

Crocus (1971) 7 min., 16 mm, color

Bowl, Theatre, Garden, Marble (1970) 7 min., 16 mm, color. The above films are early-animated films produced by Suzan Pitt and distributed by the American Federation of Arts, The Netherlands Film Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Expanded Film and Installations:

Suone E. Immagine (1980), Venice Biennale. Film performance with composer Richard Teitelbaum, Venice, Italy.

Window (1980). A three dimensional interior and film installation commissioned and exhibited by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Asparagus (1979), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Film installation and exhibition of drawings.

Loops (1976). A multi-dimensional, live film theatre performance combining film on several screens, actors and music by the Harvard Composers Ensemble, 2-1/2 hours in length, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

评论

(1)Suzan Pitt 的独立动画。一场有着糖果色的噩梦。一张空白的女人的脸。一个“芦笋”象征的“阴茎（phallus）”的世界。排泄和清刷……

《欢乐街》Joy Street(24 min. 35mm film and video) 1995

(2)一个封闭的绝望的女人，在一个象征精神向导的“精灵”的指引下，由自杀到重生的令人惊异的故事。“稀罕的，华丽的情绪，充满力量！”

--《NEW YORK TIME》

(3)“……片长越短，越「可怕」也越具挑战性，很可能种种深奥、复杂意涵全部都压缩其中，让你目不暇接、来不及仔细思考，稍纵即逝。Suzan Pitt的《芦吮》(Asparagus)的芦笋只是男孩阴茎的意象吗？可以手握，可以吸吮，十足情色。「18禁」的珍奇可贵正是一般自以为「规矩」、「正派」的电影不敢碰的，它们为你另辟一扇窗。可是，也可以由口中吐出既似珠宝又像芦笋的东西，甚至从女性肛门排出芦笋般的秽物，而且就算芦笋象徵男孩阴茎却从不见男孩现身，显然是女性自给自足的世界，既不打压女性情欲，又不必依赖迁就男性，你能说不是顶尖的女性主义思维吗？你能说不是为你开拓宽广视野吗？……”

——《第四届台湾国际动画影展》

(4)第一次看到〈Joy Street〉是在一张Cartoon Noir的选集，无疑它是这里面最惊艳的一部！

观看Suzan Pitt的作品是一种非常令人激动的视觉体验，尤其〈Joy Street〉里，这种体验还是不断变化的，Suzan她有很奇怪的空间感，所创造出来的一个又一个的梦寐般的奇幻景观，简直犹如来自外星球！

片中女主角在房间里自杀的压抑气氛非常虐心；欢腾的"What A Wonderful world"（你肯定会忍不住去想到底那个烟灰缸上的老鼠是什么材质的？）随后,哭泣的鼠娃娃又领观众进入了一个奇异的世界末日；而影片的高潮是出人意料的叮叮当当和五彩缤纷！

Suzan Pitt的动画片中常常会出现一种拉丁的热带雨林风情：

毛茸茸的嘉年华，

黏乎乎的草地，不断生长蔓延鲜艳的牵牛花，

野猴子，各种各样的水果，昆虫与蝴蝶...

这些浓丽的富有生命力的东东总是让人看了觉得浑身痒滋滋。

一部关于Suzan Pitt创作的记录短片〈Persistence of vision〉（影象的执着）里。可以看到这女人在工作室里认真的移动固定一张一张的图画；她说“动画片每秒十二张画，而我认为每一张画都至少需要好几小时来画成！”

这部24分钟〈Joy Street〉，制作花了5年。