Mary: Through Glass
Wyatt Carson
USA| 2023 | 7’05 | Italian Premiere
Busy cars, dotted distant windows and aimless lights make up a city through the whimsical perspective of an indoor cat. “Mary” tells the story of a curious cat who finds the company of an imaginary friend more intriguing than the neighborhood cats, leading her to a new world.
Direction: Wyatt Carson
School: Maryland Institute College of Art
Originally from Lawrence, Kansas, Wyatt Carson (MICA BFA ’23) works in stop-motion animation, printmaking, painting and poetry. Carson’s art practice embraces experimentation, curiosity, and imperfection, and takes inspiration from 1970’s Soviet animation, American folk art, and German expressionism. Entities such as shadows, cars, nature, weather, and Mary (their cat) variously enact Carson’s explorations of mental health, beauty, family, gender, and love. Carson’s work is dedicated to finding the emotional roots of the things that catch their eye.
