The Yellow Ball Workshop
June 28, 20138 PM
$5
Plum Pudding. A collection of short animated films made by children ages 11-17. (18 minutes)
Pre Teens. Animated stories in cut-outs and clay. (17 minutes)
Teenagers. Animated cut outs, flip books, pixillation. (18 minutes)
Masterpiece. Teenagers animate their favorite painting at the Boston MFA. (14 minutes)
The Trembling Cartoon Band. A collection of animated films made by children age 7-18 (20 minutes)
Amy Kravitz. Five stories made from ages 11-18 by one of the Workshop's star pupils. (10 minutes)
Let's Make A Film. Documentary about Yellow Ball Workshop. (13 minutes)
Yvonne Andersen began making films with children in Massachusets in the early 1960's. The Yellow Ball Workshop became a film studio where kids of all ages could realize their own animated film works from start to finish; creating special effects, operating 16mm cameras and light meters, editing and creating soundtracks. Andersen and her husband Dominic Falcone had run the Sun Gallery in Provincetown from 1955-1959, a progressive space that hosted experimental film screenings and gave Red Grooms his first solo show. They also collaborated with Grooms on his films Fat Feet and Spaghetti Trouble. The style of those films- of a world fully realized with a hand painted, slapdash cardboard esthetic- carried over into the Yellow Ball productions. The id of children is allowed to manifest in colorful and surprising narratives containing collage, stop motion, puppetry, screaming and funny accents, delightful genre exercises, absurd satire, hippies, vampiric romance, and heavy political statements.