So far, Carson Mell is just that guy whose clever, weird, hilarious, rude, richly literary short animated films have been justification enough for your subscription to Wholphin, the McSweeney’s DVD magazine.
Very soon, however, he may become a household name — even beyond the hipster-thicketed cores of major American metropolises. He may become a cult of personality.
Mell writes with such surety of voice, and such imaginatively odd imagery, that his prose alone would beguile. But he has visions too, which add a whole other(worldly) layer of surreal, sometimes slowly creeping irony to whatever he creates.
So you’ll want to see Mell and his work at the SF360 Film + Club event at Mezzanine on Thursday, August 28, if for no other reason than to later boast to your slower-uptake friends that you were there when word of his genius finally, fully broke.
Also, to possibly get a sense of what he’s actually like.