"Here it is the middle of August and the coldest day of the year, it's simply freezing. The dogs are sticking to the sidewalks!" So complains Sabina, the housemaid in The Skin of Our Teeth, Thornton Wilder's surreal 1942 comedy about mankind's heroism and folly as embodied by the immortal family of George (inventor of the wheel, lever, and multiplication tables) and Maggie (inventor of sewing and cooking) Antrobus, married 5,000 years, of Excelsior, New Jersey. A new ice age is heading south from Canada, refugees like Moses and the Muses are at the door, and the family pets, mammoth and dinosaur, huddle by the fire.
Reviews
January 19, 2008
Variety Review of "Ballast" by Lance Hammer - Robert Koehler
"Exquisite soundtrack should be studied by American filmmakers of all types..."
April 23, 2010
review by Anneliese Vobis
"Exciting drawing collages activate the gray painted narrow entrance of Rausch 31. Every little collage deserves our full attention. Strong drawing talent mixed with powerful, symbol-rich imagery carry you away to a different world..."
