Animated Shorts
(recommended for all ages)

El Viaje de Said (Said's Journey)
Coke Rioboo - Spain - 12 min.
Said, a Moroccan boy, crosses the straits to the land of opportunity, but soon discovers the world is not as beautiful as they told him it would be.

Captain Old's Adventures in Mumbleland
Fran Krause - NYC, US - 4 min.
The Captain can't seem to find his connecting bus and gets sidetracked. Fran Krause's junior-year film from the Rhode Island School of design in 1998. It was animated on paper and shot with High-Con 16mm film and has only been screened about three times in the past nine years.

God of Tears
Max Margulies, Naoko Masuda  -  USA  - 22 min.
A God lives by himself on a desolate planet. He is lonely. Everyday he cries tears that transform into rain for the planet below him. This rain brings rainbows. The people of this planet live happily, consuming only rainbows. One day, the God meets a cat. His loneliness fades away and the flow of tears ends. The rainbows stop growing, and people start starving to death.  The God must do something about it....Sacrificial death, bloodflow, and fountains of milk abound in this live-action and stop-motion animation hybrid.

Marvelous, Keen, Loony Bin
Lizzi Akana - NYC, US - 6 min.
Balloon headed monkeys mingle with faceless children, talking loaves of bread, and limbless Christmas shoppers.

Moonraker
Fran Krause - NYC, US - 3 min.
An explorer stranded on a lonely planet sends messages home. An independent animation made with Flash in 2004 which played at the Ottawa Animation Festival, the Annecy Animation Festival, and won a prize for writing from ASIFA East.

MUTO
BLU - Buenos Aries, Argentina - 7 min.
An ambiguous (but breathtaking) animation painted on public walls in Buenos Aires and Baden.

Orgesticulanismus
Mathieu Labaye - Belgium - 9 min.
Mathieu Labaye's animated tribute to his father who suffered from multiple sclerosis since he was 29. In this film, his father's voice speaks of handicap, freedom, and understanding while Mathieu's breathtakingly beautiful animation explores these concepts.

Soccer Time
Edmond Hawkins - NYC, US - 1 min.
Two friends are kicking a soccer ball around in this film, but they get an odd surprise!

Upstate Four
Dir. Fan Krause -  USA -  11 min.
Fast-paced Cartoon Network pilot by Fran and Will Krause.

Thursday November 13, 2008
8:00 pm at Luz de Mono