For three days on two screens, Bay Area Film Events presented 10 great fantasy films from the master stop-motion animator and special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen at the Balboa Theater in San Francisco.

For the three-day film festival, in between the screenings, there were presentations made by Connor Heaney, the Collections Manager for The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation, and Ray and Diana’s daughter, Vanessa Harryhausen.

Vanessa and Connor spoke on many topics related to Vanessa’s father’s life and work. The talks, with audience question and answer sessions following, included a wide range of topics, including Vanessa’s experiences at home and on set with her father and his film work.

Mark Redfield was able to steal Vanessa and Connor away for a few minutes during the weekend festival to dig a little deeper into what the duo were up to in making preparations for Ray Harryhausen’s cenntenial in 2020. Including a grand museum exhibition planned to celebrate the life and legacy of the brilliant animator.

Here’s Mark Redfield, in conversation with Connor Heaney and Vanessa Harryhausen.

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Mark Redfield performs Edgar Allan Poe’s famous tale of madness and murder THE TELL-TALE HEART.

THE TELL-TALE HEART was published in Boston in January, 1843, in the premiere issue of James Russell Lowell’s journal THE PIONEER: A LITERARY AND CRITICAL MAGAZINE. The story concerns an unnamed narrator who tries to convince the reader/listener of his sanity, while describing a gruesome murder he committed. (The victim was an old man with a filmy "vulture eye", as the narrator calls it.) The murder is carefully calculated, and the killer hides the body by dismembering it and hiding it under the floorboards. Ultimately the narrator's guilt manifests itself in the form of the sound of the old man's heart still beating under the floorboards. From beyond?? Or from the killer’s guilty imagination? Poe’s immortal story has been adapted into countless films and stage adaptations.

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