| ANIMATED
SHORTS PROGRAM |
| Friday,
May 7, 9:30 PM, Charles Theatre 4
|
ANANDA
– Mike Smith (6:00)
Dali meets Bollywood in this surreal fantasy of a man wandering
through the bleak industrial wasteland of his own mind. Various
kinds of animation and manipulation are used to display the man’s
search for a colorful lotus flower, the last remaining symbolic
remnant of a bygone magical childhood moment, which ignites in him
the sensation of first love.
| |
BLUDREN
– Jill Johnston-Price (7:00)
Inspired by myths of the mandrake, a female is lured to a strange
plant, which she captures and attempts to transform into a companion,
only to be transformed in the process. The story is rendered in
2D/3D hand painted computer animation. |
|
| DAY OFF
THE DEAD – Lee Lanier & Jeffrey Dates
(6:30)
How the dead spend their day off. |
LIVE
BAIT – Sarah Brown (7:20)
Clay animation is used to tell this tale of a fisherman who comes
close to starvation but is then saved by the appearance of three
bird women and their island of instant gratification.
ON THE ROAD FOR CHRISTMAS
– Daniel M. Kanemoto (4:45)
Joe Pleiman’s song of the same name is interpreted as an animated
tale about a homesick snowman during the holidays.
PAPER CUT -
Eric Towner (5:00)
A twisted clay animated short that goes to great lengths to determine,
once and for all, which is truly mightiest: The pen? The sword?
Or something else…
TEDDY’S END
- Jan Philip Cramer (5:00)
Death visits a site where a war has just taken place. He has visions
of the violence that has just happened, leaving him to (comprehend
means understand)ponder (question) why humans are constantly at
war with each other, causing so much pain and suffering in the world. |
|
| DELIVERY
– Patrick Smith (8:00)
Two friends compete over a delivered package. |
THE
THREE OF US - Benjamin Goldman & Nirvan Mullick
(3:00)
A surreal love triangle inspired by an instrumental Ben Harper song.
Combines traditional 3D and 2D hand-drawn animation, cut-outs, scratch-on-film,
and found objects.
THE FINE ART OF POISONING
- Bill Domonkos (6:00)
A montage of 2D & 3D animation, still photography and hand drawn
images brings an Edward Gorey-esque world to life. Animator Bill
Domonkos (who has made animated videos for The Residents) seduces
the viewer into an elegant netherworld of deceit, plotting, and
secretly served revenge, all played out to siren Jill Tracy’s
song of the same name. |
OVERPASS – Alan
Price (7:00)
In a futuristic society, a boy takes Buckminster Fuller’s
Dymaxion Car for a ride along vast stretches of highways and overpasses.
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THE
BOX MAN - Nirvan Mullick (5:30)
In a cold empty city, a man encounters a cardboard box. The box
has a small rectangular slit that compels him to take a closer look
inside.
THE PICKLE JAR
- Benjamin Goldman (7:30)
The parallel love lives of human and bug intertwine in this live-action/animation
hybrid comedy. |
