In the last eight years, independent film artist Susan Pitt has earned the reputation of being “one of this country's leading film animators” (Whitney Museum of American Art). Robert Stewart, writing for Boston's The Real Paper, describes her newest work, Asparagus, as “a major achievement of the New Feminist Cinema.” Chuck Kraemer, in an earlier article for The Real Paper sums up Susan Pitt's original and distinctive style of animation: “(She) puts the hand-made quality back into animation, accepting and then exploiting all the rudeness and primitivism such an approach brings. She plays jubilantly within that primitivism, stretching narrative rules in favor of visual experimentation and variety, studying a motion or a color or an object longer than ‘good' comic timing would dictate, and flying in the face of animating rules of thumb - by drawing with chiaroscuro and letting the soft edges fall where they may from frame to frame. The result is a phantasmagoria that grows directly out of the medium, rather than being imposed literally upon the medium from other forms, as Disney imposed fantasy from literature.”