Directed by Suzan Pitt • 2006 • United States
This visual animated poem travels between desperation and dark comedy. EL DOCTOR takes place in a crumbling Mexican hospital at the turn of the century. Inhabited by surreal characters—including a man shot with one hundred holes, a girl who has sprouted morning glories, and a woman who thinks she is a horse—the hospital is tended by a doctor who prefers to drink. The Saint of Holes and a mysterious gargoyle rearrange the Doctor’s fated demise and send him on a journey of altered perspective. More than five years in the making, the film was entirely hand painted by a small group of artists in Los Angeles and Mexico. The screenplay was written by Blue Kraning, and the voices for the film were recorded by nonprofessionals in Morelia, Mexico.
Up Next in 7 Films by Suzan Pitt
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Visitation
Directed by Suzan Pitt • 2011 • United States
Surrealistic and strange, cast in grainy 16 mm images, VISITATION allows an imaginary glimpse into the aura of “an outer-world night.” The visions in the film are summoned from the filmmaker’s imagining of a mythical eternity that is beautiful but fr...
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Pinball
Directed by Suzan Pitt • 2013 • United States
“PINBALL is an experimental animated film of moving abstract paintings which I painted and animated during the past year with a digital camera. The film visualizes my interpretation of George Antheil’s 1952 revision of ‘Ballet Mecanique’ using trigge...
