2006 Films

Arrest Assured

Arrest Assured is the comical story of a sad, poor, and simple-minded man who can't get any sleep.  He sits restlessly in his loft above a sleeping city, and wonders how he can get some rest.  A not so-brilliant solution occurs to him when he sees the sign for a local jewelry store across from his lonely bedroom window.

Northeast Premiere,  Year: 2004, Length: 3 min, Format: HD, Origin: California,USA
Producer: Robert Taylor, Director: Robert Taylor, Michael McCormick

Behind the Mask

With loping sketches and a Jazzy bass line our clown-masked dancer takes a transformative traipse to the seaside.

Year: 2005, Length: 3 min., Format: DV, Origin: California, U.S.A.
Producer/Director/Animator: Cathy Karol, Digital Compositing: Cecilia Aranovich, Composer: Bob Maize, Character created by: Stephen Hughs

Between You and Me

This film uses an innovative approach to still photography. The technique utilized the burst mode (a photo camera's ability to record a rapid succession of images) in telling a chance encounter. A young woman, snapping photographs in a big city, is attacked and loses her camera. The assault sparks the attention of a young man whose attempts to save her are in vain. In the end, her lost camera becomes his only clue to finding her.

Year: 2005, Length: 5 min., Format: digital still camera, Origin: New York, USA
Producer: Patryk Rebisz, Lynda Moore, Director/Cinematographer/Editor: Patryk Rebisz, Music: Dawid Zawadzki, Rasko Ristic
Cast: Alexandra Lerman, Rasko Ristic, Oscar Rene Cornejo

Green Umbrella

A film set to music about the love and conflict between a couple who are, in reality,  Barbie dolls being manipulated by an unseen being.

World Premiere, Year: 2006, Length: 4 min., Format: mini-dv, Origin: New York, USA
Filmmaker: Jordan Galland

Guide Dog

Guide Dog is a sequel to the Oscar nominated short Guard Dog. This time our hero dog helps blind people with typical disastrous results.

Year: 2006, Length: 5:15 min., Format: DVD, Origin: New York, USA
Filmmaker: Bill Plympton

Lab Rats

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.

Year: 2005, Length: 6 min., Format: BetaSP, Origin: California, U.S.A.
Director/Animator: Naomi Fox

Let's Collaborate

The sad story of two monkeys in a workshop. Red Skirt Monkey's ambitious plans quickly fall apart once Flat Hat Monkey enters the picture. Why try to work with such a jerk?

Year: 2006, Length: 5 min., Format: DV, Origin: California. U.S.A.
Animator: Christa Conforti, Composer: Vic Conforti

Loose Change

When life hands you change, go get some ice cream.

Year: 2005, Length: 2 min., Format: Digital, Origin: New York, USA
Animator/Director: Lee Rubenstein

Puppet

A young man fabricates a simple sock puppet, not knowing the abuse the entity will soon inflict upon its' creator. Through an escalating series of torture, the possessed puppet  takes on the embodiment of fear, chaos, and willful self-destruction.

Northeast Premiere, Year: 2006, Length: 7 min., Format: 35mm, Beta SP Origin: New York, USA
Filmmaker: Patirck Smith, Composer: Charles Fernandez

Santa's Camels

Caught in a desert sandstorm, Santa must enlist the aid of the camels to deliver toys to the children of the Middle East. "Santa's Camels" is a non-religious holiday tale of cross-cultural cooperation and is sure to be an instant classic.

Year: 2005, Length:  6 min., Format: 3d computer Animation, Origin: California, U.S.A.
Producer/Writer: Rahel Kent, Director: Steve Gray, Animation: Tom Knight,
Music: Heratch Touresian, Editor: Maria I. Villarreal
Narrator: Wesley Staples

The Toll

The Toll is a computer animated mockumentary in the guise of a student project created by the fictional film student Harvey Stevens.  Harvey delves into the realm of a not-so-fantastic myth to interview of  troll who lives under a bridge.  The troll is aggressive, uncouth, tempermental and has a nasty habit of eating people.  Yet, strangely, the troll wants acceptance from the society he preys on, and sees the young filmmaker as an opportunity to clear up the "misunderstandingss that have always plagued him.

Year: 2005, Length:  6 min., Format: Beta SP, Origin: New Hampshire, U.S.A.
Producer/Writer: Marc Dole Director: J. Zachary Pike, Animation: Hatchling Studios