Adult Animated Revolutions
The Anti-Disney. Season 1: The Ralph Bakshi Season
Ralph Bakshi is the godfather of adult animation, the man who began it all and who paved the way for future animators to break away from the cosy child centred world of Disney animated films. His work not only broke new ground in terms of style and content, but also in his willingness to confront issues such as black exploitation in films. However Bakshi was not without controversey, his attempts at radical political satire would often be met by hostility by the people he was aiming to help and would see him cast out of the major film producing houses who were far to conservative to stomach his content and yet his films were huge successes not just critically and not just within a cult market but in the popular mainstream with Fritz the Cat grossing over 90 Million Dollars at the box office. We hope that by showing his work here in the UK we can remind everyone that the likes of South Park, Beavis and Butt Head and many of todays more anarchic animated works, began with this man, Ralph Bakshi.
Fritz The Cat x
Friday 23 October, 8pm - £7.00
Based on the character of Fritz by R Crumb, this is a film which explores Frat house lfestyles, drugs, sex and violence and was the first X-rated full lengh film to grace our screens. Ground breaking.
See the 1972 theatrical release trailer

American Pop pg
Sunday 25 October, 4pm - £6.00
American Pop, tells the story of four generations of a Russian Jewish immigrant family of musicians, whose careers parallel the history of American popular music and contains a blistering soundtrack of popular music.
See the 1981 theatrical release trailer.

Wizards pg
Saturday 24 October, 4pm - £6.00
Bakshi's first fantasy epic, a post-apocalyptic science fantasy film which centres around the battle between two wizards Avatar and Blackwolf, representing the forces of magic and industrial might.
See the 1977 theatrical release trailer.
Heavy Traffic x
Sunday 25 October, 8pm - £7.00
Heavy Traffic explores the surreal life of young New York cartoonist Michael Corleone and combes live action sequences, rotoscoping and animation and was Bakshi's biggest critical success.
See the 1973 theatrical release trailer.

Coonskin x
Saturday 24 October, 8pm - £7.00
Made as a satire of Disney's ‘Song of the South’ and as an attack against blaxploitation films. Coonskin the film set out to explore racial and social stereotypes. Spike Lee, Tarantino and The Wu Tang Clan are fans of this undoubdetly controversial film.
Tim and Susan of Wow and Flutter will be supporting the event with an exhibition of adult comic books and art which can be seen prior to the weekend at their shop at
19 Claremont St-Hastings and then at the Electric Palace Cinema.

Tickets for Ralph Bakshi films available from The Electric Palace Cinema, all in weekend ticket - £25 for all five films
We'd like to say a big thank you to Ralph Bakshi for allowing us to show his films, if you want to know more about Ralph Baksi and his work visit: http://www.ralphbakshi.com/
We would also like to thank Rebecca Mason and all the vounteers at The Electic Palace Cinema, Tim and Susan at Wow and Flutter, Mark Fuga for design of our logo and our early fliers, John Knowles for the website and a huge thank you to Film Hub South East who have generously given us funds towards this season.
