Sita Sings the Blues

Could not sleep last night for some reason (I know?! Those of you who know me know...I SLEEP)...So, I put on channel Thirteen/WNET New York - our trusty public television station and I was entranced by this magical, animated, visual feast - SITA SINGS THE BLUES.

I can't believe how incredible these images are?! LOVE THEM.

This is from the New York Times last month ...

"WHAT do a 3,000-year-old Sanskrit epic, a ’20s-era jazz singer and Indonesian shadow puppets have in common? They’re all part of the eclectic cultural tapestry that is “Sita Sings the Blues,” an 82-minute animated feature that combines autobiography with a retelling of the classic Indian myth the Ramayana, and that required its creator, the syndicated comic-strip artist Nina Paley, to spend three years transforming herself into a one-woman moving-picture studio...{more}"