BELLWETHER is proud to present Brent Green’s first solo exhibition in New York. An animated-film maker, Green’s work uses the beauty of detritus and the hand-made to create Brothers Quay, Green's films progress anxiously f dystopic worlds inspired by his own family history. Reminiscent of early Walt Disney or work by therom one scene to the next with a melancholy that is brought forth from fantasy and human pathos.

At Bellwether, Green will exhibit three short films, animated drawings, and a hand carved grandfather clock sculpture whose physicality brings the viewer closer to imagining themselves in his unique world. The exhibition begins with Green’s 2005 film Hadacol Christmas (11 min), the story of a disenchanted existentialist Mr. Claus busy inventing Christmas. Claus prepares for his crazy sleigh ride, fueled by an addiction to Hadacol cough syrup. It is a story of Claus’ everyday activities and hallucinations come to life. The exhibition culminates in Green’s longest film to date, Paulina Hollers (17 min), a modern Appalachian folk tale of empathy, tragedy, and hope.

Paulina Hollers follows the story of a disagreeable boy’s death and banishment to Hell, his distraught mother’s suicide, and their bid for escape from the underworld. The film alternates between the three dimensional living world where Paulina, a hand carved wooden figure in a skeletal dress, lives amongst crooked homes and spinning birds, and a hand-drawn Hell populated by spindly Giacometti-like characters. His creative process is exposed with visibly numbered drawings and scotch tape revealed on screen.

Additionally, the gallery will be screening Carlin, (7 minutes 30 seconds) shot in Green’s childhood home. Haunted by a human sized wooden skeleton, a raffia haired figure—Green’s dying aunt Carlin--in a wheelchair, taxidermied chickens, and live bees, the film is narrated by the artist’s quivering voice with a caedence reminiscent of Beat poetry. The film moves through the unfurnished run down home to provide a telling glimpse of the space which inspired Green’s present work and aesthetic.