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James Sumner
Portland, OR
 Self-taught itinerant animator James Sumner has stunned internets worldwide with his debut film THE GETTY ADDRESS. Expanding on album of the same name by Dirty Projectors, THE GETTY ADDRESS chronicles the wanderings of a mythologized Pre-Eagles Don Henley. As an archetypal wanderer-colonizer figure, Henley voyages through the ultra-American wilderness, encountering kung-fu cranes, Neolithic kangaroos, and horrifying Aztec spider gods. Seamfully mixing high Romantic pathos and violently absurd slapstick, Sumner uses a combination of hand-drawn and computer animation with greenscreen and location live-action that is all homebrew, baby. Internet tastemaker Pitchfork praised it as "sound[ing] better than A Shark's Tale," while Portland Mercury scribe Adam Gnade more relevantly states "I can't recomment this one enough."
James Sumner was born in Mississippi and has spent the past 8 years statistically smeared over various cities in I-95 gorge.
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