Hugo is going to be screened in a revival-type theatre on Friday 7th May 2010, at Cinefamily in Los Angeles. It's being hosted by the guys behind kids show Yo Gabba Gabba! (Lance Robertson and Kevin Sukho Lee).
5/7 @ 8:00pm / SERIES: THE BIG BLUE MARBLE
Animation Night: European Stop-Motion Favorites shown with Hugo The Hippo
One of the many multi-colored joys of the "Yo Gabba Gabba!" universe is its top-notch animation segments, supervised and collected by animation producer Kevin Sukho Lee. On this special Friday, Kevin showcases his expertise in a two-part show. First, he'll serve up a program of rarely shown stop-motion animated shorts from the Czech Republic, France, and Russia; these hand-made worlds are some of cinema's greatest treasures, ones which are criminally unknown on this side of the pond.
Then, onto the kaleidoscopic and exquisitely detailed Hugo The Hippo, one of the few true psychedelic progenies of Yellow Submarine, and one of the greatest animated films you've never seen. This beautiful film, directed in the U.S. but animated in Hungary, never achieved the success it rightfully deserved, despite featuring the voice talents of Burl Ives and Paul Lynde and funky tunes sung by Marie and Jimmy Osmond. Initially derided as too frightening and "trippy" for young American audiences, this phantasmagoric fable manages to be cute but not cutesy, pulling no punches with its heavy message about mankind's responsibility to respect all living things - a quality that only makes it all the more unique and enduring. Join us as we celebrate the resurrection of this lost jewel!
Hugo The Hippo: Dir. Bill Feigenbaum, 1975, 35mm, 90 min.
Meanwhile Bill Feigenbaum has updated the gallery on his official website www.billfeigenbaumpaintings.com with some beautful 3-D paintings (you'll need a pair of red and blue glasses to experience the full effect). Bill will be having a solo show in New York featuring all his "16 Candles" paintings
If you are interested in getting hold of a DVD copy of Hugo The Hippo, you can email the director of the film Bill Feigenbaum via wfeigenbaum@nyc.rr.com for more details
The screengrabs that I've posted up on this site were created from a DVD copy Bill sent me :)
