Director
Suzan Pitt
83 years · Kansas City, Missouri, USA · 15 films
Suzan Pitt (July 11th, 1943 - June 16th, 2019) was born and grew up in Kansas City, MO. In 1965 she graduated with a BFA in painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art and has lived and worked in Europe, Mexico, New York and Los Angeles. In 1968 she began making animated films which were inspired by her paintings “My painted images seem to have a past and future and through animation I could imagine and dramatize their stories”. Her film "ASPARAGUS"'premiered in an installation at the Whitney Museum in 1979 and ran for two years with David Lynch’s ERASERHEAD in the midnight shows at the Waverly Theater and the NuArt theater in Los Angeles. A retrospective of Suzan Pitt’s prize-winning animated films was presented in 2017 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Her paintings and films are in the permanent collections of the Walker Art Center, The Museum of Modern Art, The Stedeliik Museum Amsterdam and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Los Angeles. Her animated films have been featured at hundreds of prestigious venues around the world, including the Sundance Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, the London Film Festival, the Ottawa International Animated Film Festival, the Morelia International Film Festival, and the Image Forum Film Festival in Tokyo.
Best known for
Filmography 15
SUZAN PITT - ANIMATED FILMS
2017 · Producer
El Diario Cubano
2013 · Director
Pinball
2013 · Director
On Criterion Channel
Visitation
2013 · Director, Writer
On Criterion Channel
Twenty Cigarettes
2011 · Self
Suzan Pitt: Persistence of Vision
2006 · Herself
El Doctor
2006 · Director, Producer
On Criterion Channel
Cartoon Noir
1999 · Director
Joy Street
1995 · Director
On Criterion Channel
Asparagus
1979 · Director
On Criterion Channel
A City Trip
1975 · Director
Jefferson Circus Songs
1974 · Director
On Criterion Channel
Cels
1972 · Director
Crocus
1971 · Director, Producer
On Criterion Channel
Bowl, Garden, Theatre, Marble Game
1970 · Director