Rocks in My Pockets

Tuesday, April 21 @ 8pm
The BeBe Theatre
20 Commerce St., Asheville, NC
$5 suggested donation

Rocks in My Pockets (2014, 88 min.)
Dir. Signe Baumane

Presented in partnership with the Asheville Radical Mental Health Collective!

In the new animated gem Rocks in My Pockets, Latvian-born artist and filmmaker Signe Baumane tells five fantastical tales based on the courageous women in her family and their battles with madness. With boundless imagination and a twisted sense of humor, she has created daring stories of art, romance, marriage, nature, business, and Eastern European upheaval—all in the fight for her own sanity.

Employing a unique, beautifully textured combination of papier-mâché stop-motion and classic hand-drawn animation (with inspiration from Jan Svankmajer and Bill Plympton), Baumane has produced a poignant and often hilarious tale of mystery, mental health, redemption and survival.

We will have a Skype Q & A with filmmaker Signe Baummane following the film!