Steven Lapcevic
A warm, familiar friend.
Steven Lapcevic is an independent animator who specializes in creating shorts that are surreal in nature. His films eschew a narrative approach and are experimental in their structure and execution, creating a dreamlike visual progression of ideas.
His animated short "IDIOT KING" was awarded "Best Animation" at the 2017 Coney Island Film Festival.
His animation has been featured in the film, “Disaster 501: What Happened to Man?”, conceptualized by Lars von Trier and directed by Jenle Hallund featured at The 2012 Copenhagen Art Festival as well as on an episode of "Off the Air" on Adult Swim.
Mr. Lapcevic has been awarded the 2010 Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island Art Fund Grant, the 2010 Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island Excellence in the Arts Award, the 2010 Experimental Television Center Grant, the 2013 New York State Council on the Arts Original Work Grant, and the 2016 Staten Island Arts Excellence in the Arts Award.
Wednesday Kim
Mothers. I am quivering, my hands tightened fearfully upon the one I am holding.
At night time lots of thoughts came to me, mostly intrusive thoughts. Sometimes they are too loud. Repetitive and monotonous voices (in your mind). These monotonous noises are repeated and transforme...
By New Bevel / Yusef Najafi
The wheel of dick shows up in the "manly" of places. Animation and music by Yusef Najafi.
Faiyaz Jafri
In Requiem pour les Twin Towers (2002), Jean Baudrillard states that the Twin Towers cannot be replaced because one can imagine nothing equivalent that would be worthy of being destroyed.
This a Post-ironic solution for Baudrillard’s problem of the irreplaceability of the Twin Towe...
