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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