Perhaps, but the unsparing power of Stapp's images is something you've never seen in this kind of message film. Stapp's animation uses a transfer process, embossing images of colored chalk onto white-charcoal covered paper. It's hard to imagine a more obsessive or unforgiving medium, but Stapp's cartoons have the advantage of snowflakelike delicacy. Stapp's last film, made for the American Heart Association, is A Game of Chance , a calm sort of warning about too many cigarettes, too much steak and eggs, made by doctors from 1979 who didn't feel the need to scare the bejesus out of the public. Unfortunately, Stapp won't be in attendance at this impromptu film festival.
Admission is free.
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