IT’LL HAVE BLINKING EYES AND A MOVING MOUTH U.S. Independents - Documentaries

“If it ain’t fun, don’t do it,” says artist Hobart Brown. His credo couldn’t be more evident in It’ll Have Blinking Eyes and a Moving Mouth, a documentary about Brown and the kinetic sculpture race he founded twenty-four years ago. From its modest beginnings as a whimsical parade of “Dr. Seuss” contraptions, the race has grown to become the Triathlon of the Art World. Racer-artists turn tricycles into giant lobsters, 20-foot long crawfish, and nine-foot tall high-heeled pumps for a 38-mile test of strength, endurance and sheer indomitability. But filmmakers Jeb Bergh and Edward Jordan wisely focus on the wacky and colorful free-spirits who spend their time on such inventions. Part character study and part road rally, this film is a kinetic “slice of life” about love, art, machines, and the artists who pedal them.