Sally Cruikshank

Spectacle is proud to present HEAD SPACE, a showcase of animated works exploring dimensions both interior and outlying. Featuring an extremely talented and creative group working in a diverse array of styles, the shorts wander through strange and sometimes sketchy landscapes, including alternate-universe appliance stores, the ramblings of Charles Manson, environmental catastrophes in the Dutch style of painting, and a houseplant’s musings. Some, like Sally Cruikshank’s Make Me Psychic, are established classics; others feature newer animators working in looping GIF format, presented away from the small screen’s momentary pleasures to fully appreciate the art that it is. Occasionally gross, often beautiful, and always interesting, HEAD SPACE is a sampler of the thoughts happening inside and out of each frame.

I heard this song on Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Show and just had to animate to it. The lyrics were a bit odd when I really listened to them, but the rhythm was a treat. - Sally Cruikshank

I heard this song on Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Show and just had to animate to it. The lyrics were a bit odd when I really listened to them, but the rhythm was a treat. - Sally Cruikshank

The power of imagination.

Day in the life of a shoe salesman.

A lizard's curiosity runs wild.

Everybody who's anyone is invited to a swanky soirée.

The luxurious villa of Mark and Jessie Bannister, a yuppie couple, is overrun by loads of uninvited guests who turn the house up side down.

Happiness, sadness, love, and surprise manifest themselves in various ways.

An animated film compiled by David Ehrlich consisting of 27 animators from different countries all explaining themselves through their animation.

랜디 보덱은 대학가의 말썽 꾸러기이다. 방학하는 날 기숙사에 몰려온 친구들로 인하여 애인 제니에게 절교 선언을 듣고 집으로 돌아오나 그를 기다리고 있는 것은 성적에 대한 부모님의 질책 뿐. 세뇨르 피자집에 아르바이트생으로 취직을 한 랜디는 독특한 의상에 독특한 짚차를 타고 피자 배달을 나가 자신이 비버리힐스의 유부녀들에게 인기가 있다는 걸 알게 된다. 첫 배달에서 만난 유부녀 다이안에게 혼이 빠질 정도의 경험을 한 랜디는 그 뒤로 도맡아서 피자 배달을 한다. 그리고 그는 비버리힐스 프로로 소문이 나고, 비버리힐스의 유부녀들은 피자보다는 랜디의 몸을 노리고 온통 난리를 친다.

Demonstrates how one part of an object can affect the whole thing.

A frog is driving his alligator-shaped car when he is stopped by a shapely she-frog who steps into the road. She tells him that her house is haunted, so he goes along to assist.

The joy of flying.

A trio of picture books explain the structure of stories.

A spoof of "The In Crowd."

Candy commercial. With lyrics like, "chewy, delicious, bigger than your finger," or was it "bigger than you figure"? Anyway, I designed and directed this commercial right after Ruthless People. A number of very talented animators working at Playhouse Pictures did the animation. The product never took off-- it was like chewing gum, but you swallowed it.

밤낮없이 여자 마네킨 조작에만 몰두하던 조나단(Jonathan Switcher: 앤드류 맥카시 분)은, 그것을 이유로 애인 록씨(Roxie: 캐롤 데이비스 분)에게 버림받고 가는 곳마다 해고를 당해 실직자 신세를 면치 못한다. 조나단은 우연히 프린스 백화점의 사장의 생명을 구해준 것이 인연이 되어 백화점의 출고 계원으로 취직이 된다. 어느날 조나단은 온정열을 쏟아 만든 마네킨이 옛날 이집트의 요술장이 에미(Emmy: 킴 캐트랄 분)로 변하는 기적이 일어난다. 죠나단이 있을때만, 아름다운 여인으로 변하는 에미는 그를 도와 기발한 쇼위도우 디스플레이를 창출하여 도산 위기의 프린스 백화점을 재기시킨다. 숙적이던 일러스트 백화점의 부장 비 제이(B.J. Wert: 스티브 비노비치 분)를 비롯, 프린스내에서도 일러스트와 내통하며, 부사장까지 된 조나단의 출세와 사랑을 온갖 수단으로 방해하려 한다. 결국 에미는 20세기의 인간으로 변신하게 되어 에미는 죠나단과 행복한 결혼식을 올린다.

모두가 혐오하는 백만장자 샘 스톤(Sam Stone: 대니 드비토 분)에게는 뚱뚱하고 지긋지긋한 골치덩어리 아내 바바라(Barbara Stone: 베트 미들러 분)가 항상 입안의 가시였지만 단지 그녀의 재산 때문에 살고 있는 남자다. 어느 날 아내를 죽이겠다고 마음 먹자,아내가 유괴당하고 몸값을 요구하는 납치범들의 전화가 걸려오자 샘은 눈물 흘릴정도로 좋아하면 축하연을 하려고 한다.오히려 당황하게 된 납치범들은 사실 샘 스톤의 회사에서 일하던 착한 젊은 부부(Ken Kessler: 저지 레인홀드 분 / Sandy Kessler: 헬렌 슬레이터 분)로 바바라는 인질이 되어 지하실에 묶여있는 동안 다이어트로 살을 빼 기뻐한다. 바바라는 남편이 자신의 몸값이 턱없이 낮아지다가 나중에는 죽이라고까지 말한 것을 알고 격분해 남편을 반격한다. 결국 무정한 백만장자 남편과 골치아픈 그 부인 사이에는 치열한 전쟁이 시작되고 온갖 소동 끝에 그들은 진정 소중한 것이 무엇인가를 깨닫게 된다.

The bizarre adventures of the cartoon character Foska, drawn by 22 animators working in collaboration. Each animator worked on his or her own sequence only and did not know what action preceded or followed his or her sequence, except that the first drawing of a sequence is the last drawing from the previous sequence.

A PBS documentary from around 1982 about San Francisco bay area animators. It features Marcy Page, Jeff Hale, Sally Cruikshank, Bud Luckey, Rudy Zamora, John Korty, Vince Collins, Drew Takahashi

Created and produced as a sample of the proposed (never realized) animated feature. "It was like a 30's musical in which Anita left the alligator farm to pursue her dream of opening the ultimate tropical nightclub. I had a script and storyboard [...] Nightclub of the future with live alligators and a tipsy train that serves drinks." -SC

Anita the duck buys a psychic device at a novelty store in an alternate universe and creates mayhem at a crazy party.

Anita the duck buys a psychic device at a novelty store in an alternate universe and creates mayhem at a crazy party.

This surreal cartoon follows Quasi, Anita and their pet robot Rollo to the Quackadero, a futuristic amusement park where thoughts, time, dreams and memories become playthings for the weird and wacky clientele.

This surreal cartoon follows Quasi, Anita and their pet robot Rollo to the Quackadero, a futuristic amusement park where thoughts, time, dreams and memories become playthings for the weird and wacky clientele.

An early short by Sally Cruikshank. Running through various anthropomorphized creatures, this short lack a real sense of narrative.

An early short film by Sally Cruikshank.

"I made this film when I went to the San Francisco Art Institute, after graduating from Smith a semester early. It was my reaction to California. "Sweeping the Clouds Away" is sung by Charles "Buddy" Rodgers, who was Mary Pickford's husband. huh? who? The doctored photo was of an astronaut on the moon-- I thought he looked like a duck and made him one. From 1971... yikes!"