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Parasites: A User’s Guide will screen at the Cornelia Street Cafe in NYC on February 26th, as part of Observatory’s ‘Body As Funhouse Mirror: Cultural Reflections On the Human Form‘ series.  The screening starts at 6 p.m., and will be followed by a Q&A with director Sharon Shattuck and some friends: Radiolab’s Pat Walters, Scientific American’s Ferris Jabr, helminth researcher Dr. P’ng Loke, and two real life “users” of helminthic therapy.  Please join us for the event, and if there are more questions for the panel than the performance can accommodate, we’ll head upstairs to the café!  Hope to see you there.  And if you cannot make the screening in person, consider hosting your own Parasites viewing party in your city!

Check out the motion typography animation Sharon made for TEDx Manhattan 2012!  Music by the lovely band Palmyra.  [for more information on TEDx Manhattan, go to TEDxManhattan.org]

Whale Fall will screen at Toronto’s Short & Sweet Film Evening on December 12th, 2011!  In case you want to attend in person, here’s their website: shortandsweet.tv.

What happens when a whale dies?

We’re very excited to announce the debut of our newest video, ‘Whale Fall’ on Radiolab’s website.  The video, directed by Sharon Shattuck and Flora Lichtman and shot by Artem Agafonov, was produced as a compliment to Radiolab’s ‘Loops’ episode (in collaboration with producer Lynn Levy).  All puppets and sets were made by Flora and Sharon of high-quality art paper.  We feature the same animals in the video that Lynn includes in the podcast, so a few species are missing, but you’ll get the general idea.  Music by the ever-awesome Rachel’s.

10/14/11 UPDATE: ‘Whale Fall’ is now on boingboing.net as well!

10/17/11 UPDATE:  io9 and Gizmodo, Grist, Treehugger, The Maddow Blog, The Curious Brain, takepart.com, and many more.  Thanks for the love, people!

Parasites: A User’s Guide is now available for purchase!  To buy a DVD, go here.  To read up on hosting a community screening, go here.  Thanks, all!

Check out Sharon’s illustrations on the website of the new national service program FoodCorps [foodcorps.org].  And watch her animation here!  Animation produced with Wicked Delicate Films, LLC.

Check out our new commercial for ax.com (it’s the featured video on their homepage)!  Hopefully that little guy finds his flashlight eventually.

Sharon’s first film, the short ‘Parasites: A User’s Guide‘ and the feature film ‘The City Dark,’ a brand-spanking-new film from ‘King Corn’ co-creator Ian Cheney, about light pollution and our connection to the stars, will screen as a double feature at the University of Michigan Biological Station in beautiful Pellston, MI on August 7th, starting at 4:30 p.m.

The annual International Conference on Biotherapy in Los Angeles, CA, will host a screening of ‘Parasites’ on Thursday, November 11th at 5 p.m., to close its helminthic therapy session.  Check their website for more details!

We’re very pleased to announce the New England premiere of ‘Parasites’ at the Camden International Film Festival in Rockport, Maine.  ’Parasites’ screens on Sunday, October 3rd at 10:30 a.m. in the [free] “Shorts for Lunch” program–one of only 10 short films chosen to screen at this prestigious festival.  And stick around after that if you can–on Sunday night, Wicked Delicate’s new feature documentary, about light pollution, which Sharon animated, will have a special sneak preview screening.  We hope to see you in Maine!