Shorts 3: Animation

Description

A retirement home resident attempts to woo with music. A participant in a primal scream class gets more than he bargained for. And a child is made to drink blood from deer antlers. These imaginative, often hilarious, story-based animations mingle with non-narrative works that ply their magic with light and sophisticated processing techniques in this wide-ranging program. —Rod Armstrong

Total running time 70 min

All Rot
Using photographic reanimation, a decaying crazy golf course becomes a mesmerizing split-screen rapture.
(Max Hattler, Germany/Hong Kong 2015, 4 min)

Bob Dylan Hates Me
Director Caveh Zahedi (The Sheik and I, SFIFF 2012) has a couple of awkward encounters with one of his idols.
(Caveh Zahedi, USA 2016, 6 min)

Deer Flower
This is what happens when your parents make you drink blood from deer antlers.
(Kangmin Kim, USA/South Korea 2015, 8 min)

Edmond
Edmond’s urge to love is a little too consuming, as this series of reflections reveals.
(Nina Gantz, UK 2015, 9 min)

Glove
The haunting true story of a glove that’s been floating in space since 1968.
(Alexa Lim Haas, Bernardo Britto, USA 2016, 6 min)

Life Smartphone
Stop looking down at your phone or there will be major consequences, as this uproarious short shows.
(Chenglin Xie, China 2015, 3 min)

Manoman
A class on the primal scream unleashes something rather unexpected for Glen in this imaginatively rendered work.
(Simon Cartwright, UK 2015, 11 min)

The Orchestra
Shy retirement home resident Vernon hopes a miniature orchestra can help express his feelings to his female neighbor.
(Mikey Hill, Australia 2015, 15 min)

Splotch
For all of the java junkies out there, watch as a coffee spill becomes a visual reverie.
(Dan McHale, USA 2015, 4 min)
This is a Cinema by the Bay film.

Track
Light and music weave a trippy tapestry.
(Kazue Monno, Takeshi Nagata, Japan 2015, 4 min)