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Your Band Sucks! (12:00)
By Bryan O'Sullivan
IRL
This a short film about a failed television pilot involving a garage band. Joined by their slacker friend they go on a search for a singer but end up being rejected by a lot of people, threatened by a robot zombie and abused by Bruce Campbell. If only the band realised their show was not going to be a hit. |
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Blood on the Tracks (01:00)
Leon Butler
IRL
A mix of 3D animation and hand drawing are used to create a very short very moving piece called "Blood on the Tracks". Nice camera moves and a simple story are used to create a simple uncluttered story backed by an original score. Made on a home computer quickly as the director suspects he may have ADD. |
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Djamel's Eyes (11:00)
By David Casals
ENG
IP
Recovering in an Italian hospital, Djamel and Paco share the same room. Both are very different from each other, with a completely opposite view of the world. Paco is bedridden so Djamel describes to him all the beautiful things he sees through the window. With time they both realise that they are not so different, until destiny knocks on the door... |
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Crooked Mick of the Speewah (10:40)
By Philip Smith
AUS
IP
Tired of hearing about how much stronger Crooked Mick is, Sam, a strong man at an 1890 Australian country fair and his promoter Gus, decide to find the Speewah and challenge Crooked Mick. Crooked Mick is a big hearted journey film based on traditional Australian folklore and myth; made by students at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS). |
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13 instances (15:00)
By David Poolman
USA
Using a variety of found video and sound footage, 13 Instances investigates teenage rebellion and isolation through the online diaries of Death Metal enthusiasts.
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Washing Up Liturgy (2:16)
By Leo Earle
ENG
IP
Two Carmelite nuns inspired "Washing Up Liturgy". St Thérèse of Lisieux whose spirituality centred around doing the 'little things' and St Teresa of Avila who found God in the 'pots and pans'. |
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Tyttönen -The Young Girl (5:00)
By Fabian Giessler
DEU
A young girl is sitting in a room. While she walks on the floor she asks who wants to play with her and recognizes only old people hanging around the tables. Suddenly a man arrives and calls her "mother"... This is a short movie inspired by the fate of the filmmaker's grandmother who got ill with Alzheimers. This little movie tells the story of how different we can see old people and the handling of their illness. |
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Pro Radii (2:44)
By Stefan Ringelschwandtner
DEU
IP
"Pro Radii" tells a story of a birth of a hybrid creature |
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On Hold (2:16)
By Leo Earle
ENG
WP
Ever got irate through being kept on hold?
The aim of this college project was to complain effectively about being put on hold by the telecommunications giant NTL. The animation is based on Nokia's 3310 phone screen.
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Training Wheels (02:08)
Ramsey Beyer
USA
A true story of a young kindergarden girl who loves her bicycle but is pressured by her competitive friend to take the training wheels off, leaving her unable to ride and vowing to never ride bikes again. |
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Don't Try This At Home (5:00)
Daniel O'Neill
IRL
This is short video piece made about domestic abuse. The filmmaker has approached the subject matter in an unorthodox manner, using no dialogue or people, only objects located inside around home ( Waterford crystal, plates, cooker, worms, salt, computer music etc.) |
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Sleepless (10:00)
By Laura Ellis
IRL
Insomnia touches many lives, insidiously creeping up on its victims when all is quiet and dark. For some, it engulfs their lives; the thought of another sleepless night fills them with dread. This is a documentary about three long-term insomniacs, who tell their stories as time ticks by on another sleepless night. |
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Andy's Promise (3:00)
By Darragh Shanahan
IRL
"Andy's Promise" is a stop animation piece using appropriated stills to create a narrative arc from Paparazzi beginnings to its ultimate tragedy. This tragedy subsequently brought the occupation of the Paparazzo to being known worldwide and the film succinctly shows an effect it has on the human landscape, especially in our present celebrity soaked society. |
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Marian 98 Cork St (02:45)
By Bohoe
IRL
"Marian" is a short street interview with one of the Rumanian neighbours of Cork Street , in Dublin 8. Through the interview, his words allow us to understand how he fits in a multicultural Dublin . This is part of a series of interviews from an ongoing project, to be complete in 2007, on the community around Cork Street , which is suffering enormous changes in the last years. |
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Fractured (05:40)
By Sean Hunt
IRL
A visual and aural abstraction that explores the effects of a dancer's motions as she interacts with a strobing light. Time is reduced to stuttering instances. Light explodes and absorbs, lingers and encroaches shapelessly around her as she finds herself within it. |
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My Life At 40
By Laurie Hill
I'm not 40 yet but I'm forward-thinking. A special collaboration between the director, aged 12 years, and his present 34 year old self, both looking forward to a glorious future as a 40 year old conservation hero and Lamborghini owner.
Made with six years to go! |
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Lab Rats
By Naomi Fox
Following a grotesque experiment, a young lab rat is forced to share a cage with an unfriendly veteran of the laboratory. Refusing to share his food, the veteran rat humiliates and ridicules his cage mate, setting the stage for murderous revenge and an eventual, though surreal, reconciliation. |
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Elucayali
By Che Hargreaves
One night, a young boy hears his mother singing and dreams of a past life in a strange land.
This is a sand-on-lightbox, stop motion animation inspired by the work of Canadian animator, Caroline Leaf, and an old Peruvian river song I once heard my mother sing when I was very young. The song is a love song about a man's journey along the river Ucayali to find his true love |
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