<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%> 2006 Maryland Film Festival
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ANIMATED SHORTS  

At the Quinte Hotel
Director: Bruce Alcock
4:00 minutes, DVD, Canada

DESCRIPTION: An animation using a variety of techniques (oil paint, charcoal drawings, linoleum, bottle caps, flowers, a neon sign) brings to life Al Purdy’s poem about beer and flowers in a small-town basement tavern.

Blowin'
Director: BenniiD.
5:00 minutes, DVD, USA

DESCRIPTION: Sometimes noses just run.

The Boy With No Name
Director: Adam Smith
5:36 minutes, DVD, UK

DESCRIPTION: A tale of the loneliness and exclusion of a troubled soul, lost and trapped in a world that he feels he does not belong to. Through a series of events he is led on a fantastical journey on which he discovers his purpose, his place and his destiny.

Dragin' On
Director: Katie Hirsch
1:59 minutes, DVD, USA

DESCRIPTION: A small creature gets more then it bargains for while searching for something to eat.

Dragon
Director: Troy Morgan
7:35 minutes, BetaSP, USA

DESCRIPTION: An orphaned girl develops the ability to bring the darkest visions of her subconscious to life simply by drawing them. When her miserly ward attempts to exploit this unique gift for profit, the girl unleashes the malevolent title creature of her nightmares for revenge.

Fumi and the Bad Luck Foot
Director: David Chai
7:00 minutes, video, USA

DESCRIPTION: No matter what she does, Fumi simply cannot keep her foot from being the center of disaster. Eventually she learns to use her bad luck for good, and becomes an unlucky hero.

King Baby
Director: Shaun Martin
7:15 minutes, DVD, USA

DESCRIPTION: Meet King Baby as he comes into existence and tries to figure out what it all means before moving on to the next stage.

Prickle Britches
Director: Jill Johnston-Price
6:01 minutes, BetaSP, USA

DESCRIPTION: Prickly roses, entangling barbs, zigzagging webs, exotic spinsters, capricious pussies, counterfeit mothers, babbling battologists all conspire to seduce a young girl.

PUPPET
Director: Patrick Smith
6:20 minutes, BetaSP, USA

A young man fabricates a simple sock puppet, not knowing the abuse the entity will soon inflict upon its creator. Through an escalating series of torture, the possessed puppet takes on the embodiment of fear, chaos, and willful self-destruction.

To A Man With A Big Nose
Director: Cecilia Aranovich
3:12 minutes, BetaSP, USA

DESCRIPTION: A frustrated little man is unable to get rid of his disproportionately big nose, which comes to life and decides to go on a strange journey, dragging the poor little man along.

Training Wheels
Director: Ramsey Beyer
2:10 minutes, DVD, USA

DESCRIPTION: A young girl is pressured by her competitive friend to take the training wheels off her bicycle.

When We Were Young
Director: Ramsey Beyer
2:00 minutes, DVD, USA

DESCRIPTION: A story about a family's goal to travel to all 50 states in their private airplane.

The Wraith Of Cobble Hill
Director: Adam Parrish King
15:33 minutes, BetaSP, USA

DESCRIPTION: When teenage Felix, from a poor Brooklyn home, is asked by Mr. H, the kindly corner store owner, to mind his dog while he's away, it's up to Felix to either reciprocate the benevolence Mr. H has always shown him, or perpetuate the neglect handed down as a family legacy.

   

 

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