Consuming Spirits

Consuming Spirits is an Animated Feature Film about three characters who live in a rustbelt town called Magguson,. All three work at its local newspaper The Daily Suggested . At first they appear to be acquaintances. But as the film unfolds, we find they have a long diabolical history, revolving around social service intervention, and foster care, romance and hatred. Each character has family secrets to hide, and family secrets to discover, skeletons in the closet, in the museum, and in the earth.
Reviews and profiles of consuming spirits, Tribeca Premiere, and Film Forum
Theatrical run.
“Critic’s Pick. Entirely original. . .an inquiry into the darkest zones of the human heart. . .Weaves a complicated, intoxicating spell…a wonder.” – A.O. Scott, New York Times FULL REVIEW: movies.nytimes.com/2012/12/12/movies/consuming-spirits-an- animated-film-by-chris-sullivan.html
“****[Four Stars!] A monstrous visual achievement… one of the most uniquely humanistic animated features of all time.” -Joseph Jon Lanthier, Slant
FULL REVIEW: slantmagazine.com/film/review/consuming-spirits/6737
“Recommended! An emotionally raw, thoroughly original film, a labor of painstaking love 15 years in the making….a haunted reverie…constructed of ugliness shot through with moments of unexpected beauty” — Ian Buckwalter, NPR
FULL REVIEW: npr.org/2012/12/11/166681140/a-consuming-portrait-of- appalachian-life
Watching Consuming Spirits is like surrendering to hypnosis, or to a particularly haunting dream… And the whole movie follows suit, presenting seemingly disconnected images that turn out to have deep and painful significance in an elaborately woven, powerful story. Like the punny title, whoch refers both to drinking alcohol and to the secret history that controls and constrains each of the characters,
Consuming Spirits has hidden depths.
Tasha Robinson The Onion AV club.
avclub.com/articles/consuming-spirits,89819/