Penelope Gazin

Playing a version of himself, director Whitmer (aka Whit) Thomas drifts through L.A. meeting up with a series of friends and alienating them in various ways.

Little girl asks uncooperative fireman for help rescuing her beloved pet.

It's a beautiful morning in the middle of nowhere. Four best friends/bandmates are packed and ready to make their long-anticipated road-trip move to Los Angeles, but their hometown keeps getting in the way.

A young woman is on her way home from the city on a night bus. Soon she notices a man in the back of the bus whose face is covered by a hood. The more people get off the bus, the closer he gets to her. Fearfully, she finally gets off the bus in an abandoned part of the city where she hopes to shake off her pursuer. But as soon as she leaves the bus she realizes she did not get off alone...

Inspired by Bettie Page and Tempest Storm's Teaserama. With dancers from the LA City Municipal Dance Squad.

"This was my frirst year character animation film at Calarts. It premiered on CartoonBrew.com and is currently in "Spike and Mike's sick and twisted animation" film festival and will be on the DVD coming out in December."

Spectacle is proud to present HEAD SPACE, a showcase of animated works exploring dimensions both interior and outlying. Featuring an extremely talented and creative group working in a diverse array of styles, the shorts wander through strange and sometimes sketchy landscapes, including alternate-universe appliance stores, the ramblings of Charles Manson, environmental catastrophes in the Dutch style of painting, and a houseplant’s musings. Some, like Sally Cruikshank’s Make Me Psychic, are established classics; others feature newer animators working in looping GIF format, presented away from the small screen’s momentary pleasures to fully appreciate the art that it is. Occasionally gross, often beautiful, and always interesting, HEAD SPACE is a sampler of the thoughts happening inside and out of each frame.