Last Friday we held our first Sketch Cinema event! Sketch Cinema is a new monthly series of casual movie-and-draw nights. We were very glad to see new and familiar faces alike, and we hope everyone enjoyed our taste in fine films.
Each Sketch Cinema event is a double feature, and this month we showed the 1995 films Hackers and Johnny Mnemonic. People filtered in, bought some snacks, readied their materials, and enjoyed the lighthearted 90's flair of Hackers while they sketched and conversed with the people around them.
During the hard-edged cyberpunk cult classic Johnny Mnemonic, we held a themed drawing challenge called "Help Keanu" in which the participants drew items and ideas that would, as the title suggests, help Keanu's character in the film. Results included a Steve Jobs robot, the classic Matrix character Morpheus being transported into this film to help Johnny just as he helped Neo, and a collection of ideas by artist Iris Monahan that included a Keanu-centric reinvented childhood. Their ideas ultimately won them the prize, including a VHS copy of Mnemonic and the William Gibson classic Neuromancer.
Sketch Cinema will continue in August with Utopia/Dystopia, a screening of the surreal animated features Gandahar and Angel's Egg. You can find the event info HERE.
Hope to see you there!
