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.

Um corretor de ações e sua esposa acabam de se mudar para uma mansão e recebem a visita indesejada de um primo desempregado e sua esposa grávida. Isso coloca muita pressão sob o casal, que tem que fechar um negócio milionário ou pode perder tudo.

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.

Um universitário, Randy Bodek, não assume para seus pais, Diane e Joe Bodek, que está tendo um relacionamento sério com uma colega de faculdade, Jenny Gordon. Como precisa de dinheiro, ele arruma um emprego como entregador de pizzas mas muda de "profissão" ao conhecer uma empresária, Alexandra 'Alex' Barnett, com quem se envolve rapidamente. Assim se envolve com mulheres mais velhas, que se sentem sexualmente frustradas.

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.

Jovem empregado de uma loja de departamentos se apaixona por uma manequim, que adquire vida fora do expediente. A manequim é na verdade uma deusa egípcia que agora auxilia seu pretendente na confecção de maravilhosas vitrines.

Sam Stone odeia tanto a esposa Barbara que não vê a hora de se livrar dela. Quando descobre que a mulher foi sequestrada, ele simplesmente ignora todas as exigências dos sequestradores, inclusive o pedido de resgate de quinhentos mil dólares. Confusos, os sequestradores tentam encontrar uma forma de colocar a mão no dinheiro, enquanto lidam com o autoritarismo de sua vítima.

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!"