Movie Details
Original Language:English
Short Circuit
12 min
Wise began experimenting with animation and liveaction film at the age of seven under the tutelage of several artists and experimental filmmakers including Len Lye Francis Lee and Stan VanDerBeek Wise created dozens of brief animations using cutouts scratchonfilm techniques as well as conventional cel animation In 1963 at the age of eight Wise released a compilation of his experiments titled Short Circuit Distributed by the Filmmakers Cooperative Short Circuit was shown throughout the world won several awards and was the US entry in the Child the World festival in Czechoslovakia Writing in the Village Voice filmmaker and critic Jonas Mekas called Wise the Mozart of Cinema
DirectorDavid Wise
