Panic Button Pictures is the preoccupied world of award winning Animator Webster Crowell; Tactile, obsessive films about things sentimental and politely bombastic.

Here at Panic Button rising water has cut off the trade routes - there's black market gin and kerosene, gangs of liberated golden retrievers menace the alleys and what with the curfew in place it's not safe to leave the studio.   With wire, a bicycle and enough detritus to furnish an avenue of 1940's row houses, we set to manufacturing our own industrial age.

News:
        Parasol opens! - Parasol – is coming to a park near you! After a frighteningly good preview at Zeitgeist coffee a few months back, the completed film wiill screen twice in July, at Annex Theatres spin the bottle July 11, and the Bike-in at Cal Anderson Park July 20!.

        Two and 1/2 years in the making - Parasol – got amazing support from Artist Trust, 4-Culture and Seattle Arts commission!   Composer Jason Staczek is racing away at the final score and I am re-learning life without a heap of animation to complete at night - with mixed results. Please come witnes Parasol in all it's whirring glory; I'm an awful judge, but others tell me it's a very pretty film.