Robert Ascher Villanueva

Robert Ascher Villanueva

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Necropolis, Ashes to Ashes 2016

Andrés, a young man, devastated because of the death of his beloved Eva, makes a gamble with a ghost. If he wins, Eva will arise, if he doesn't he has to give the ghost one of his eyes.
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My Neon Girl, I Massively Love You 2018

A girl abused by his dj boyfriend re-encounters his father at a rave.
Robert Ascher

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Blue: A Tlingit Odyssey 1991

Anthropologist Robert Ascher depicts a myth of the Pacific Northwest Coast Tlingit using the purely symbolic, visual language of direct, cameraless animation. Positing an enchanting, engaging, non-Western alternative to verbal, analytical methods of documentation, he also considered this approach a noninvasive method of portraying an indigenous culture.
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Cycle 1986

An animated film based on a non-sacred myth of the Wulamba, a native people of northeastern Australia.
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Bar Yohai 1987

Shimon Bar Yohai was a second century visionary who, according to popular belief, wrote the Zohar, the main Kabbalah text of the Jewish mystical tradition. The film's images -- tree, mirror, candelabra and the ten dots with which each is constructed -- are Kaballah figures for how the world got started and keeps going. Once every year there is a celebration honoring Bar Yohai at his tomb in Meron, Israel. The last scene is composed from photographs taken on the roof of the tomb during the celebration. The soundtrack, a song praising Bar Yohai, was also recorded during the celebration in a town (Safed) a few miles from the tomb. Support for the film's production came from a fellowship Award in Film, New York Foundation for the Arts; funds for participation in the celebration were from a Humanities Faculty Grant, Cornell University.