Animated Short Film Program
Saturday, November 14, 2009
7:30 pm at Organico:
The Cage That is My Beauty
Directed by: Ileana Daniela Darie - 3 min. - Canada
A cinematographic allegory to freedom.
The Creation
Directed by: Joan C. Gratz - 8 min. - USA
Academy Award Nominee 1982, The Creation is based on a poem by James Weldon Johnson and narrated by James Earl Jones.
Ceci n'est pas une mouche (This is not a Fly)
Directed by: Carlos Fraiha N. de A. Barbosa - 2 min. - UK
A story about a man in an art gallery, a painted fly that seems to be playing mind games on him, and an angry security camera.
From a Cow
Directed by: Danny Madden 5 min. - USA
A cow's peaceful dawn is cut short by the scuffling planes above.
Fruitless Efforts - Fruit of the Womb
submitted by: Oren Robashkin - 5 min. - USA
Apple is trying to lead a normal life, but is being held back by his friends.
Gul
Directed by: Adnan Hussain - 9 min. - USA
Gul, a young girl, is awakened by her mother's dying breath. She struggles to recall her past. A child's view illustrates conflicts between abuse, self determination, human rights, and the environment. Her world manifests through visual poetry. Raw, expressive, painted style computer animation is scored with masterful Sindhi Folk music from the villages of Pakistan. With all that she finds, can love create hope in the face of oppression?
Last Supper
Directed by: kishore vijay - 1 min. - USA
The dessert was to die for!
Milbe (Mite)
Directed by: Karl Tebbe - 6 min. - Germany
A grandmother's gigantic dust mites threaten to destroy the world.
Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase
Directed by: Joan C. Gratz - 7 min. - USA
Academy Award Best Animated Short Film 1992
Pie of the Day
Directed by: Victoria Cook - 2 min. - USA
In a greasy diner, a cat and rabbit declare war over a slice of pie.
Puffer Girl
Directed by: Joan Gratz - 5 min. - USA
The perplexing adventures of a puffer fish who pushes the boundaries of her world.
Tin Can Heart
Directed by: Rod March - 8 min. - Australia
A lonely tin puppy is looking for a master to love and serve, but is it worth the cost?
WSIM: What Suffered Inside Me
Directed by: Jennifer Hardy - 3 min. - USA
The main character sees himself as an incomplete stick figure with a crossed line on his face. He visualizes simple figures wearing horizontal lines on their faces as unable to see his inner self. The feeling of loneliness, unhappiness and falling into darkness create clinical depression.
