Product Details

• Actors: -
• Directors: Suzan Pitt
• Format: Animated, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: FIRST RUN FEATURES
• DVD Release Date: November 21, 2006
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000HXDENU
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #26,978 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "El Doctor, Joy Street & Asparagus" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

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Rare, gorgeous emotional power. --The New York Times

Product Description

For over three decades, Suzan Pitt has been an internationally renowned creator of beautiful, strange and fiercely original animation. Collected here for the first time are three of Pitt's pioneering and unforgettable masterworks. Also included is a new documentary, Suzan Pitt: Persistence of Vision, which explores Pitt's inspirations, animation techniques, and more.

Asparagus
This candy colored, sexually charged nightmare rocked audiences upon its release and catapulted Pitt to the front ranks of indie animation. (1979)

"One of the most lavish and wondrous animated shorts ever made . . . an overwhelming visual experience." - Oscar-winning Animator John Canemaker

Joy Street
A "vivid, intriguing, and bizarre" (The New York Times) masterpiece, Joy Street captures a woman's journey from suicidal despair to personal renewal, with the help of an unlikely spirit guide. (1995)

El Doctor
Inspired by the art of Mexico, El Doctor follows a melancholic physician in a Mexican hospital who prefers drinking to doctoring. Transformed by the visit of a psychedelic saint, he begins to perform miracles on an odd assortment of hospital patients. (2006)

"Delightful, visual ecstasy!" - LA Weekly

Suzan Pitt is a multi-faceted artist whose paintings and animated films have won numerous prizes worldwide. Her film Asparagus played with David Lynch's Eraserhead for two years on the Midnight Movie circuit, while Joy Street premiered at the New York Film Festival.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Most Important DVD Release Ever, April 28, 2007

By	The Black Swan "Burning" (In The Highlands) - See all my reviews

Calling all weirdies, prepare to go to weirdie heaven. This is the DVD you have been waiting for your entire twisted little lives. Finally, the collected works of the Suzan Pitt, the greatest animator on Earth, are available for you to blow your mind apart and put it back together again with brand new custom chrome weird pipes protruding from your weird engine. If you've never seen Pitt's work, then prepare to have you inner caterpillar changed into a sabre tooth butterfly. Take ever scene that made you stomach drop in a David Lynch movie, add to that every time you've lost your breath in a Alejandro Jodorowsky film, sprinkle with essence of David Cronenberg, mix them with Gerald Scarfe's animated sequences from Pink Floyd the Wall, bake well in Salvador Dali's melting oven, garnish with the collected videos of Tool and then stick in your DVD player. These animated masterpieces far outdistance any animation made for adults ever. Imagine you are trapped in a spaceship and the Captain's gone insane; taking you light years beyond Heavy Metal the Movie, past The Fantastic Planet, even further than the Ralph Bakshi nebula. The colors alone makes the Yellow Submarine look like a broken down school bus. And if unusual depictions of sexuality are your bag, then know that these cartoons make the films of Rinse Dream look like a pile of Care Bear TV specials. Don't think this is merely for cult movie fanatics or animation junkies, either. All you out there who devote yourselves to high art, both film and painting, Suzan Pitt is the name you should have been dropping in wine and cheese land for the past 30 years. Her work makes Dali's and Luis Bunuel's Un chein andalou look like the Taco Bell Chihuahua. Even Matthew Barney's Cremaster series looks like the first season of Full House next to the legendary Asparagus, the transcendental Joy Street and Pitt's latest masterpiece, El Doctor. There are more metaphors to describe this incredible DVD than there are stars in the sky, and all of them mashed together still won't give you an idea of the impact Pitt's work will have on your psyche. Brace yourself; like in Videodrome, you will evolve after viewing, as will your idea notion of reality. If you've ever dreamed of leaving the planet, here's your chance at last.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Remarkable Animation, March 18, 2007

By	Martin Shackelford (Saginaw, MI USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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Suzann Pitt is primarily an artist, who occasionally does an animated film. The three she has produced, all presented here along with a good profile of the artist, are quite remarkable.
"Asparagus," with its surreal and sexual imagery, made a major impact on its appearance in 1979, and toured midnight shows with David Lynch's film "Eraserhead."
"Joy Street" is an emotional roller-coaster ride with a woman in crisis--an unusually sophisticated presentation for animation.
"El Doctor" is her first "story" animation--an elderly doctor flashes back to what he could have done differently--also very unusual for animation.

5.0 out of 5 stars for lovers of surrealism, July 31, 2009

By	alxflp (gent belgium) - See all my reviews

Great diversity of animation techniques that work surprisingly well together. As in Lynch's films, don't look for a straight story line but sit back and let yourself be drawn into this new world, sometimes dark and filled with desperation (Joy Street), other times hilarious (El Doctor) and finally, erotic and lavish (Asparagus) Every frame is a feast to the eye.