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IFCT Schedule Los Angeles Shorts
Toumai, Directed by: Carlos Stevens The earth was a vastly different place before Man was born. Toumai is the story of Mankinds destructive battle against nature in his attempt to build the ultimate machine. This machine is the culmination of Mankind's greatest creations and most horrific inventions. In the end, Mankind's delinquency ultimately leads to his demise as his machine sends him to a watery grave. toumaifilm.com Grime Shoe Diaries, Directed by Mike Wellins, US, Los Angeles Premiere In this noir send up, Detective Panama Taft haunts the streets of his faceless city in search of a case or a clue, but when a job comes along, it might be more than he bargained for. One Dollar, Directed by: Kuan Leong Low (Vincent) Singapore/ UK World Premiere "One Dollar" is a stylised short animation about two guys bumping into each other on the street which leads to an epic fight over a coin that has fallen. The story is a spoof of japanese anime where exaggerated fights happen over trivial matters. The aim of the animation is to achieve a unique style that blends the aesthetics of 2D anime with the fluidity of 3D animation, to create a new visual experience for the audience. www.vincentlow.com
Spayeti and Meatball, Directed by Davis Vu World Premiere Director in Attendance A yeti's materialistic and non-caring ways come to an end as he meets a boy that will show him what really matters in life. www.davisnvu.blogspot.com The Love Letter, Directed by Hedwig Maria Zeitler, Germany World Premiere Chasen, a high sprited frog is in love with Lulu, but he lives in Royal Frogland, which is a marvelous little island. But the bullfrogs, a species of gigantic frogs, are disturbing the paradise. Chasen sets out to fight for freedom and justinc with courage. From Left to Right, Directed by Aram balakjian, UK Los Angeles Premiere Presenting the cycle of growth, "From Left to Right" follows a seed in it's journey through life. A process which exists all around us both in tangible and more abstract forms. In Your Eyes, Directed by Gregory McKneally, UK, US Premiere In a grafitti-inspired vision of the not-so distant future, two young people head out into a world of influences and opportunities, hoping to find each other. A 3D animated film commissioned by the NHS, Options and Spirited Fusion to provoke discussion among young people around subjects of sex, relationships, influences and the construction of gender. The film will be used as part of a UK-wide campaign organized by Spirited Fusion. To have maximum impact across so many different cultures, languages, accents and backgrounds, the film uses no dialogue - the story is told visually - through body language, gesture, and eye contact, and through music and sound.The purpose of the film is not to provide answers, but to raise questions. www.photonshepherds.com Calamaris, Directed by Markus Huber, Austria, World Premiere The base and main idea behind the film "calamaris" is the examination of power, misuse of power, manipulation and crowd phenomena in relationship to the dictatorship in times of the national socialism. www.mareone.at The Red Kite, Directed by: Peter Lacalamita, Canada Los Angeles Premiere A boy flies his kite amidst a dangerous climate of war. http://www.magneticstudio.com Kunoichi, Belgium, Directed by: Jonathan Moulin World Premiere A domestic fight in an unusual couple... http://www.toaster.be/ The Cave: An adaptation of Plato's Allegory in Clay, Written and Directed by: Michael Ramsey An excerpt from Plato's Republic, the 'Allegory of the Cave' is a classic commentary on the human condition. We have adapted and brought it to life by shooting over 4,000 still photographs of John Grigsby's wonderful claymation. The look was achieved by use of candlelight in a real fire that burned at the back of the set.twww.platosallegory.com Duke Baa, Directed by: Shu-Han Yang Taiwan/ USA Duke Baa is an 3D animation based on a quirky, arrogant goat. One day, he gets an invitation and wants to change his clothes. He grabs the remote and walk to his ' magical mirror system'. He tries on clothes and switches the clothe on his body. However, the reflection in the mirror wakes up..... Impact, Directed by: Alexander Sherman, USA World Premiere Impact is a film that follows an elk assaulted by a distant industrial terror. Oksi, Directed by: Ville Westerlund, Finland, World Premiere Oksi is story about a bear who goes to prison and his memories starts haunting him. In the Moood Directed by Ave Pluum, USA Los Angeles Premiere An old woman enters into the world of dreams while milking her cow. Stay Cool Directed by Ziv Ariely, Israel, World Premiere This one minute comedy shows what happens when an anger management teacher loses his cool. The Brain, Directed by Jan Erik Olsen, Los Angeles Premiere "The Brain" is a short story about a programmer who works with a team on a biological neural computer. The computer is a woman who has lived all her life in a tank. Most of her enlarged brain is used for running software. Over time, our programmer has fallen in love with her. He's desperate for some time alone with her, and has prepared a virus that will send the other workers away. 28800, Directed by Miquel Gelabert, Spain, World Premiere Living inside a senseless life beyond the effort for organizing the daily chaos, an executive feeds himself of a last cigarette, while he counts the seconds that separate him and his escape from the swarm of sounds dilapidating him. Beyond the Window, Directed by: Marissa Delbressine, The Netherlands, Los Angeles Premiere Beyond the Window is a poetic animated short, telling the story of a young boy dreaming away in front of his bedside window, free in mind but bound to his wheelchair in body. When his imagination offers him a way out in the shape of a jester, he realises that true freedom lies beyond the window. Separate Vacations, Directed, Written and Produced by : Anne Lewis A dog owner, boarding her dog before leaving on vacation, is thrown a curve by a form required by the kennel. The Bus Stop, Directed by: Tim King, US Premiere My aim in this film was to depict the interesting variety of moods, atmospheres and characters that can be found within a location that some may label as 'boring'. I created the film when on my art foundation year at college. It was a response to the title 'The Place' where the challenge was to try and create a 'sense of place' within a short film. I decided to use a bus stop as my setting, a very ordinary, mundane and often ignored loacation, and studied the cycle and contrast of events, moods and atmospheres that occour at this location, however often go unnoticed. If Only, Directed by Charley JULIEN Jean-François TREHARD and Paul-Emmanuel DORNE World Premiere A girl comes to hospital to see her little brother who is in a coma... An Animated Short Film Directed by: Thomas Grootoonk US Premiere A stop-motion animation about a boy who longs for a more vivid and brighter world. www.thomasgrootoonk.com Krijt, Directed by: Klaas Lageveen, The Netherlands Los Angeles Premiere A souvenir of a crime, unsure of why it is still here, goes searching for what it lost. |
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