3:00pm – 6:00pm
 Ruby Rocket, Private Detective by Sam Niemann & Stacey Hallal It had been a long night and Ruby Rocket, Private Detective needed a stiff one. Then HE walked in… |
 The Quiet Life by Timothy Hittle Jay Clay and Blue have built a home and Jay is content to live a quiet life. Yet trouble is never far away, and soon chaos is at his door. He encounters two visitors amid the mayhem, and his life is forever changed. Sequel to the Oscar-nominated film, CanHead |
 Cheez…z by Arut Tantasirin This story is about Yamazaki, an old man who tries to take a picture of Warbie, a little bird. The problem is that Yamazaki is too slow for this tricky bird. |
 Man Drawing a Reclining Woman by Grant Goans The stop-motion short, Man Drawing a Reclining Woman, brings to life the characters represented in Albrecht Dürer’s 16th century woodcut. A draughtsman persuades a woman to be the subject of his artistic studies. She soon discovers the specialized tools and methods he utilizes to render the human figure on paper. |
 Solstice by Caroline de Coninck This legend tells of a huntress who would influence the origin of day and night. |
 Marauder’s Mistake by Christina Beard Two gangs of pirates fight over a precious jewel. |
 Courageous Crustaceans by Dayan Paul Over 250 million years ago, the ocean is a wild place where we can see the first game of cat and mouse take place amongst primeval predator and prey. Theo the lobster and Verm the crab, two streetwise shellfish, use a defense technique very different from other survivors of the sea… Their specialty is the use of practical jokes. It’s their twisted sense of humor that keeps them alive! |
 Pirate Scum by Patrick Lake Cap’n Crusty and his pirate crew are bent on pillaging, staying up past midnight, and doing what they please. Having tied up heroic Admiral Peacock, nothing can stop their dirty deeds… Except perhaps a trip to the Pirate Spa? |
 The Rising Path by Ian Pilger Two farmers stuck in heavy traffic are suddenly whished away by their magic truck. The polluted environment transforms around them into a cleaner more energy-efficient world. |
 Missionary by Mike A. Smith Geopolitical allegory as cartoon slapstick, featuring eggs and fearsome hand-on-stick technology. |
 The Nose by Neil Burns & Dean Holmes Based on the Nikolai Gogol story of the same name, The Nose uses stop-motion animation to tell the strange tale of a vain and ambitious civil servant who wakes up one morning to find that his nose has disappeared. |
 Sorry Film Not Ready by Janet Perlman This film was made by accident using experimental animation invisible to the naked eye. The story involves the dramatic interplay between an ear of corn, a space monster, a hammer and a platypus. |
 Breath by Kartika Mediani Metaphors of various matters that happen in life, and how different circumstances affect them in relation to our memories, which give impact to the emotions we feel. |
 Ruby Rocket, Private Detective Web Series by Sam Niemann & Stacey Hallal The continuing mis-adventures of Ruby Rocket, Private Detective. |
 The Thought by Britain Cramer A man tortured by a thought seeks to destroy it—only to destroy himself. |
 Landscape with Duck by Patrick Neary A wayward duck tries to catch up with his companions on their migration south. |
 Roundabout by Peter Byrne & Carole Woodlock Roundabout is an inquiry into landscape and memory, movement and flow. A cascade of imagery interweaves and sweeps on a circuitous journey interrupting one’s sense of balance and location. The visual imagery employs gesture, layering, randomness, pattern and color to evoke a sense of becoming. Live action footage, with hand-drawn and computer generated composite animation sequences come together in order to establish a shifting and layered sense of time and place. |
 Brushstrokes by Ken Kimmelman Produced for the United Nations, this film shows through humor how ridiculous prejudice looks when it’s made to walk the floor. |
 Light by Emily Baxter An elderly artist’s frustration results in the pursuit of a fleeting dream. |
 The Thin Gray Line by Paul Brown An army of unlikely heroes defends against a marauding robot. |
 Gerald’s Last Day by Justin & Shel Rasch Gerald the dog is scheduled for termination at the dog pound at 5:00 today. Can he seduce an adopter before his time runs out? |
 The Box Game group project by students from The Art Institute of Portland Kevin’s sister is too grown up for the make-believe games that he and his friends like to play. When she tries to stop their cardboard box game, she discovers that the vital worlds of imagination have their own reality and are available to all ages. |
 Moon Diary by Curtis Randolph A lonely, childlike moon keeps a diary of his depression, boredom, and recurring nightmares. His daily realities seem to be based on dream logic: clouds with bovine personalities, teeth with eyes and mailmen who fly in balloons. |