1986- new to Boston from Arkansas, I saw my first ever animation festival at Off the Wall in its Cambridge location. The festival included a claymation of “Vincent” about a kid who wants to be Vincent Price, “Agatha Makes Soup” (or something like that) also a claymation, and a beautifully haunting story called something like “Skywhales”. Sitting on a car seat, drinking hot tea, thinking I was in the coolest place in all of the USA!
I fell in love with independent film that night, and over the past 18 years have been a regular at the West Newton, the Boston Library series, the Somerville, the Coolidge,(including 10 years straight at the SF Marathon’s at Somerville and Coolidge) the Brattle, and more recently the Embassy and Kendall Square theaters.
There are still great theaters out there, but not any quite as quirky as this one was…
1986- new to Boston from Arkansas, I saw my first ever animation festival at Off the Wall in its Cambridge location. The festival included a claymation of “Vincent” about a kid who wants to be Vincent Price, “Agatha Makes Soup” (or something like that) also a claymation, and a beautifully haunting story called something like “Skywhales”. Sitting on a car seat, drinking hot tea, thinking I was in the coolest place in all of the USA!
I fell in love with independent film that night, and over the past 18 years have been a regular at the West Newton, the Boston Library series, the Somerville, the Coolidge,(including 10 years straight at the SF Marathon’s at Somerville and Coolidge) the Brattle, and more recently the Embassy and Kendall Square theaters.
There are still great theaters out there, but not any quite as quirky as this one was…