David Sullivan

gary michael smith wrote a nice article about my screening at a studio in the woods for Louisiana film & video magazine.

here is the link: http://www.louisianafilmandvideo.com/LM_Update.jpg

“Al over but to cry”, which i did the animation for won 2010 Humanities Documentary Film of the Year from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Board of Directors. As Times-Picayune Movie Critic Mike Scott described in his review, “Their words are enhanced by eerily convincing dramatic re-enactments, archival footage and an impressive dash of computer animation.”

In his year-end movie rankings, Scott included All Over But To Cry among the “10 Great Docs from 2009,” which included national and international documentary films, as well as among “Top 10 New Orleans Films,” which included feature films and documentaries.

Karl Volkmar has written a thorough review of Hot Up Here in the winter issue of The New Orleans Art Review. His description of my work is as poetic as the work itself. Interestingly, he draws comparisons with the work of Robert Warrens, my painting instructor at LSU.

Eric bookhardt has added his viewpoint to the reviews of “Hot Up Here” at the CAC. Read the review here.

Doug MacCash has written a review of the all city faculty show at universal. Read what he has to say here.

Eirk Wenzel has written a review for ArtSlant of the “Hot Up Here” show that Dan Cameron curated for the CAC in New Orleans. He included a few words about my animations:

David Sullivan’s looping HD animations, Sunset Refinery, 2008, and Swamp Gas, 2009, are pretty in a garish way, they face each other in a darkened gallery, hissing, whirring and churning away a perfect mixture of beauty and decay. The color schemes combining black blobs with blues and wispy neon greens and yellows vibrate and glow. The two animations trade on the notion of how the sensation of something ominous and gloomy can be a deeply satisfying aesthetic experience.

Read the full review here.