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SFFILM Festival

Shorts 3: Animation

3 May
Sun, May 3, 2015 at 1:30 pm PT
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Description

This collection of short, adult-oriented animated films includes CGI, cel, hand-drawn and stop-motion techniques and presents the hilarious, strange and touching visions of artists from around the world. In a program that includes new works by Don Hertzfeldt, David OReilly, Kelly Sears and Bill Plympton, viewers will experience the psychological frailty of an insecure horse, the emptiness of deep space and receive paranoid tips on what to do in case of emergency.

Bang Bang!
An auto accident leads to a chance encounter in the woods in this moody suspense tale. (Julien Bisaro, France 2014, 12 min)

The Box
Created as part of a journalistic story by the Center for Investigative Reporting, this story centers on juvenile imprisonment in New York’s Rikers Island jail. (Michael I Schiller, USA 2014, 6 min)
This is a Cinema by the Bay film.

Faded Finery
Feral people and feral animals make for feral times. (Sonia Gerbeaud, Mathias de Panafieu, France 2014, 10 min)

Footprints
When the gullible go on quests, they can turn up the darnedest things. (Bill Plympton, USA 2014, 4 min)

Horse Raised by Spheres
The spheres that raised this horse would have plenty to say if they could only see him now. Or can they? (David OReilly, USA 2014, 4 min)

One Night in Hell
A skeleton takes his turn through the seven circles of you know where. (James Hall, Jason Jameson, UK 2014, 8 min)

A Pattern for Survival
Listen up if you want to make it out of here alive or at least with clean teeth. (Kelly Sears, USA 2015, 6 min)

A Single Life
This Academy Award nominee presents a woman controlling her environment through turntablism. (Marieke Blaauw, Joris Oprins, Job Roggeveen, Netherlands 2014, 3 min)

We Can’t Live Without Cosmos
A touching tale of two overachieving cosmonauts and the farthest reaches of space. (Konstantin Bronzit, Russia 2014, 16 min)

World of Tomorrow
This winner of the Sundance Grand Jury prize will not disappoint Don Hertzfeldt’s justifiably ardent fans. With this first foray into computer animation, Hertzfeldt focuses his considerable talents and humor on the futures of human and robot kind. (Don Hertzfeldt, USA 2015, 17 min)

—Sean Uyehara