Name: SPX Presents: FUNNY PAGES in 35mm + Q&A w/ filmmaker Owen Kline
Start: 2025-04-13T15:45:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-13T17:45:00-04:00
Location: AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center

$SPX Presents: FUNNY PAGES in 35mm + Q&A w\/ filmmaker Owen Kline$

SPX Presents: FUNNY PAGES in 35mm + Q&A with filmmaker Owen Kline
Owen Kline made an auspicious debut as a filmmaker with this quirky and blackly comic coming-of-age tale. Traumatized by a brush with death and alienated by a brush with the law, New Jersey teenager Robert (Daniel Zolghadri) informs his parents (Josh Pais and Maria Dizzia) that he wants to drop out of school and focus on becoming a great comic artist. He finds a cheap place to live in a frighteningly dank group house in Trenton, part-time employment with his public defender and a problematic mentor in the form of Wallace (Matthew Maher), a prickly crank who once worked as a professional comic artist. Kline's love for comic book art shines through, as does an awareness that genuine underground and outsider art does not come from corporate workplaces or well-adjusted people. Impressively grotesque and subversively comedic, FUNNY PAGES perfectly captures the world it depicts in loving caricature. RATED R
35mm print courtesy of filmmaker Owen Kline.
Presented in partnership with the Small Press Expo
The Small Press Expo (SPX) is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit created in 1994 to promote artists and publishers who produce independent comics. SPX hosts an annual festival that provides a forum for artists, writers and publishers of comic art in its various forms to present to the public comic art not accessible through normal commercial channels. For more info, visit smallpressexpo.com.