Films for Friends 4: Hedgehog in the Fog and other animations

Hedgehog in the Fog, 1973, Yuriy Norshteyn, 9 min
The Jon Bon Trilogy, 2020, John Hiltunen, 8 min 40 sec
Plus a small selection of other animated shorts TBA

Thursday, February 9th
Doors 6:00, show 6:30

Hedgehog in the Fog

This is a story about a little hedgehog (voiced by Mariya Vinogradova) and his friend bear cub (voiced by Vyacheslav Nevinniy). The two would meet every evening to drink tea from the cub's samovar, which was heated on a fire of juniper twigs. As they drank their tea, the hedgehog and the bear would converse and count the stars together. One day, the hedgehog decides to bring the bear cub some raspberry jam. On his way to meet the bear to count the stars, he passes through the woods and encounters a beautiful, white horse standing in a fog so thick that the hedgehog can't even see his own pink paw. He is curious as to whether the horse would drown if it went to sleep in the fog. The hedgehog decides to explore the fog for himself.

The Jon Bon Trilogy

Our slick animal-headed hero Jon Bon evades his enemies time and time again, and drinks a couple mai tais on the beach while he's at it.

John Hiltunen (1949-2020) was a beloved artist at Creative Growth Art Center. In his early years in the studio, he focused primarily on rug making, wood work, and ceramics. Hiltunen’s iconic collage work became a consistent artistic pursuit after participating in Paul Butler’s “Collage Party” in 2007. His clever juxtapositions, which combine animal and human subjects derived from fashion and natural history magazines, are provocative in their humor and yet earnest in intention. Hiltunen enjoyed wide-spread recognition for his collages, and developed a large body of work.

Hiltunen created these animations with the support of Michael Hall at Creative Growth.