Grand Detour is moving out of the Portland Storage Building, and its first screening as a nomadic entity is a fantastic animation program hosted by Nancy Jean Tucker! This event will take place on April 16, 2011, at The Settlement Galleries at Pioneer Place Mall. Tucker comes to Portland to screen some of her own work, as well as a collection of truly innovative films by various animators. This program explores both the serious and the ridiculous sides of animation, including tales about a pet hamster’s voyage, the collapse of a paper world, what happens when you trade heads with your cat, and a musical homage to the film Willow. The program includes work by Maureen Selwood, Telefantasy Studios, Colin Barton, Al Herrmann, Hsin-I Tseng, Keren Albala, Jed McGowan, Helen Hill, Stefan Gruber, Amy Lockhart, and more! The screening will begin at 8PM.

Tucker is a director and animator based in Los Angeles. She is originally from Louisville, Kentucky, and began making films at the California Institute of the Arts. Her films and music videos have shown around the world in galleries and festivals such as the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, the European Media Arts Festival, and the Nova Scotia Museum of Art.