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1. TEN FOR GRANDPA
Director/Writer: Doug Karr
Cast: David Alpay, David Huband, Catherine Black
USA/Narrative/2008/Color/7 minutes
A dynamic reverie of grandfather as a reporter, producer, millionaire, defense contractor, and Soviet agent.
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2. ABUELO
Director/Co-writer: Mary Ann Kellogg
Co-writer: Doug Cooney
Cast: Greg Baglia, Britt Flatmo, Castulo Guerra, Norma Maldonado
USA/Narrative/2009/Color/15 minutes
Emily's grandfather from Argentina isn't quite what she expected.
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3. YOU WON'T REMEMBER THIS EITHER
Director/Animator: Jeff Scher
USA/Animation/2009/2 minutes
A beautiful portrait of the artist's sons as toddlers, dancing with gravity in a suspenseful ballet as they learn to walk.
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4. LITTLE CANYON
Director/Writer: Olivia Silver
Cast: Tessa Allen, Kevin Jacobsen, Kendall Toole, Aaron Refvem
USA/Narrative/2008/Color/20 minutes
Greta, her dad, and her siblings are moving cross-country to California...all that's missing is her mom.
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5. THE JACOBSONS
Director/Writer: Jeff Scher
USA/Narrative/2008/3 minutes
Inspired by early silent films, this goofball vaudevillian contest between a father and son is told purely in music and pictures.
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6. THE WORKOUT
Director: Sami Khan
CANADA, USA/2008/Narrative
Color/11 minutes
Earving coaxes his teenage Terry into a workout session. But can their shaky bond survive Earving's even shakier weight bench?
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7. THE FIRE, THE BLOOD, THE STARS
Director/Writer: Caroline Deruas
Cast: Léna Garrel, Maurice Garrel
FRANCE/Experimental/2008/Black and White/15 minutes
Caroline Deruas, her daughter, and her father-in-law (actor Maurice Garrel) explore themes of motherhood, cinema, and politics.
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8. THE NEISTAT BROTHERS
Directors/Writers: Van and Casey Neistat
USA/Narrative/2009/Color/22 minutes
In this world premiere, art-world provocateurs Van and Casey Neistat explore science, stop-motion animation, demolition, sea monsters, and home movies. |
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1. L'EAU LIFE
Director/Animator: Jeff Scher
USA/Animation/2007/Color/3 minutes
This lyrical watercolor film celebrates the giddy experience of playing in water.
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2. LAPSUS
Director/Writer/Animator: Juan Pablo Zaramella
ARGENTINA/Animation/2007/Black and White/4 minutes
A curious nun ventures toward the darker side of an animated world in a mischievous dance between positive and negative space.
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3. PERFECT
Director/Writer/Animator: Sally Arthur
UK/Animation/2004/Color/3 minutes
In this visually stunning short, the trappings of bourgeoisie domesticity are playfully exploited and then literally exploded.
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4. THE TRUE STORY OF THE 3 LITTLE PIGS!
Director: Konstantin Bronzit
Writer: Jon Scieszka
USA/Animation/2008/Color/8 minutes
When the classic fairy tale is retold from the wolf's point of view--and narrated by Paul Giamatti--can he really be all bad?
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5. RELEVÉ
Directors: Bastian Caspar, Sebastian Natto, Denis Trümbach
GERMANY/Narrative/2007/Color/9 minutes
A misfit's Polaroid snapshots break down dance into its simplest elements.
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6. THE GO-CART
Directors: Wendy-Snyder Macneil and Jeremy Leach; Writer: Wendy-Snyder Macneil; Cast: Emmett Snyder, Judy Patton, Chris Sharrock, Ted Lenk, Colin Kennard, Chris Schmidt
USA/2008/Color/22 minutes
In this touching film, a boy's lively grandmother suffers a stroke.
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7. INTERSECTION
Director/Writer: Shivani Khattar
SINGAPORE/Documentary/2008
Color/8 minutes
A group of street kids create an impromptu circus at a traffic island in New Delhi.
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8. LILIUM URBANUS
Directors/Animators: Anca Risca and Joji Tsuruga
USA/Animation/2009/Color/2 minutes
With lightening-quick speed and stunningly organic movements, a city literally grows from a grassy field.
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9. SATISFACTORY
Director/Writer/Animator: Felix Massie and Joe Paine
UK/2006/Animation/Color/6 minutes
A worker in a hard hat sets a ball rolling in the most magical, musical factory imaginable.
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10. DIVERS
Director/Animator: Paris Mavroidis
USA/2009/Animation/Color/3 minutes
A group of divers descend through the clouds, performing patterns inspired by Esther Williams and Busby Berkeley.
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11. CHARLIE THISTLE
Director/Writer/Animator: Bragi Schut Jr.
Voices: Jon Keel, Leslie Steves
USA/2008/Animation/Color/15 minutes
At the Department of Normality, change isn't tolerated...until Charlie Thistle dreams of a world in color.
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12. WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
Director/Writer: Jeff Scher
USA/2008/Experimental/Black and white/15 minutes
A beautiful and contemplative study of the rain.
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13. THROUGH
Directors: Guillaume Cailleau and Benjamin Krieg
GERMANY, FRANCE/2008
Experimental/Color/3 minutes
Reflected light glistens on the surface of a river in this elegant short artwork, here making its North American debut.
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