Film Programme
THE FLOWER
animation
United States, 2010, 4'
Director: Haik Hoisington
Producer: Haik Hoisington
Director of photography: Haik Hoisington
Writer: Haik Hoisington
Animation: Haik Hoisington
Composer: Ion Furjanic
Editor: Haik Hoisington
Synopsis: The Flower contrasts a utopian society that freely farms and consumes a pleasure giving flower with a society where the same flower is illegal and its consumption is prohibited. The animation is a meditation on the social and economic costs of drug prohibition. It also contrasts legal and illegal drug economies.
Director: Haik Hoisington
Haik Hoisington is a Brooklyn-based freelance animator. He strives to use animation to illustrate alternative perspectives of urgent social and political issues. His work has been shown in film festivals, broadcast on television and featured in on-line and print publications. It includes award winning music videos for musical artists Eminem and the Coup, as well as animation for the feature length documentaries American Blackout and Lockdown USA. Haik is a graduate of the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University.