- Animator John Goras received his MFA from the School of Visual Arts and his BFA from Syracuse University. Goras caused quite a stir in the underground independent cinema community with his incredibly warped and perverse, yet utterly hilarious and unforgettable 12 minute cartoon porno short feature "Chirpy." This truly startling and often sidesplitting one-of-a-kind oddball marvel graphically depicts the unlikely, yet passionate romance between a cute little yellow bird and a huge horse. "Chirpy" won the Best Animation Award at the 9th Annual New York Underground Film Festival in 2002. Moreover, "Chirpy" was featured in Spike and Mike's Festival of Sick and Twisted Animation in 2006 and was banned from a 2002 screening in the United Kingdom by the Westminster Council on charges that it was obscene. John claims "Chirpy" is his statement on modern pornography. Among the other festivals that Goras' work has been shown at are the International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Netherlands, the San Francisco Independent Film Festival, and the Z Film Festival in London. John followed "Chirpy" with "Ghost Tank," which are a series of animated short movies that take barbed, berserk and violent satiric potshots at such worthy topics as war and religion. Goras was interviewed in the excellent documentary "Horror Business." More recently John Goras has made a sequel to "Chirpy."- IMDb Mini Biography By: woodyanders
- [on his cartoon short 'Chirpy (2001)'] 'Chirpy (2001)' is a seriously funny comment on the current mainstreaming of traditionally pornographic fixations, imagery and themes. It's also my 12 minute classically animated (i.e., acetate, paper and film) film about a very small bird's irrepressible love for a very large horse.
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