. 1...Cooped by Mike A. Smith | USA | 9:00 A housebound dog is eager to embark upon adventure — just as soon as he get can get past one obstacle: the front door. . |
. 2...The Missing Scarf by Eoin Duffy | Canada | 6:35 A black comedy exploring some of life’s common fears: fear of the unknown, of failure, rejection, and finally the fear of death. Narrated by George Takei. . |
. 3...Virtuos Virtuell (Virtuoso Virtual) by Thomas Stellmach & Maja Oschmann | Germany | 7:29 Abstract ink drawings appear out of nowhere. In synchrony with the music they ‘grow’, evolving from curiosity to timid encounters, dynamic pursuits and confrontation. This stimulates many different emotions and crarries us off on an exciting, poetic journey into a musical world of pictures. . |
. 4...A Different Perspective by Chris O’Hara | USA | 1:55 A visit from an alien life form results in a change of perspective — in more ways than one. . |
. 5...The Beards: Got Me A Beard by Chris Edser | Australia | 3:53 In this music video we learn that stifling men’s beards may have profound social consequences. . |
. 6...Premier Automne by Carlos De Carvalho & Aude Danset | France | 10:31 Two children meet in a magical wood: one a child of summer, the other of winter. 2014 NW Animation Fest – BEST OF FEST . |
. 7...Fallin’ Floyd by Albert ‘t Hooft & Paco Vink | Netherlands | 8:53 Dumped by his fiancée, jazz trumpeter Floyd can’t reclaim his groove until he loses the monkey on his back. . |
. 8...Marilyn Myller by Mikey Please | United Kingdom | 6:07 An aspiring artist generates whole galaxies from nothing, then smashes her work to bits for an elite audience of hipster fans. . |
. 9...Velo Hoot by Mary J. Lai | USA | 3:35 A fuzzy owl has a grand day planned for the apple of his eye. But when he discovers her still soundly at sleep at home, those plans are thwarted. Or are they? . |
. 10...Boles by Spela Cadez | Slovenia | 12:17 Filip dreams of a writer’s glory and living in the more prosperous part of town. He avoids his neighbor Tereza, an older prostitute, at all costs — until the day she asks him to write a letter for her fiancé. Filip agrees. A week later she shows up at his doorstep again, asking him to write an answer to that letter. . |
. 11...El Empleo (The Employment) by Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso & Patricio Plaza | Argentina | 6:20 A man makes his usual trip to work in a world where using people is an everyday thing. . |
. 12...Love The Way You Move by Oh Yeah Wow | Australia | 3:41 President Vladimir Putin gets hilariously funky wearing his new pair of nuclear-powered sneakers. . |
. 13...Borrowed Light by Olivia Huynh | USA | 4:14 The last keeper of an abandoned observatory blacks out the city lights to reveal an astonishing celestial event. 2014 NW Animation Fest – BEST STUDENT FILM . |
. 14...Rabbit and Deer by Péter Vácz | France | 16:15 The friendship of Rabbit and Deer is put to the test by Deer’s new obsession with finding the formula for the 3rd dimension. 2014 NW Animation Fest – AUDIENCE CHOICE . |