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Close Encounters of the animated Kind
Whether drawn by hand or machine, this collection of ingenious stories is guaranteed to captivate.
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Canada / 2008 / 5 min. USA / 2009 / 4 min. Canada / 2008 / 5 min.
Based on a melancholy song of No one sees the foibles of our This imaginative documentary
love in Newfoundland, Vive la world quite like Oscar-winning captures the passion and offbeat
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paint animation as well as still them so memorably. A longtime John Murrell.
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photography to create a mood SDFF favorite, Plympton returns
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that matches – and even surpasses with the latest in his series of
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– the music’s rough-voiced, tragic canine charmers.
Director: Cédric Louis, Claude Barras
tone.
Canada / 2009 / 6 min.
LooPloop
Using stop-action puppetry, this
The Stressful adventures
Director: Patrick Bergeron
macabre tale follows a vampire
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of Boxhead & roundhead:
Canada / 2008 / 5 min.
who must seek out more and
BroThErS in arMS
On a train ride through Vietnam, more victims so that his wife can
Directer: Elliot Cowan
Patrick Bergeron filmed the build- continue to have a young, pretty
USA/UK / 2009 / 4 min.
ings, fences, people, vehicles, and head to call her own.
Boxhead and Roundhead have
goings on he glimpsed in passing –
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exploded onto the international
then used skillful editing, anima-
The necktie (le noued cravate)
scene with appearances in music
tion, and sound warping to create
Director: Jean-François Lévesque
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videos and, of course, their own
a dazzling piece of storytelling.
Canada / 2008 / 12 min.
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series of stressful adventures,
Wearing a snazzy new yellow h
illustrated with an arresting
Jelly Fishers
bowtie and playing the accordion,
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expressionistic palette of black,
Director: Steven Subotnick
Valentin makes working at Life
USA / 2009 / 5 min.
white, and gray to provide equal
Inc. more, well, lively.
parts Seusslike whimsy and
The dreamy saga of a family of
ominous darkness.
molelike creatures whose lives are
Twist of Fate
saved, believe it or not, by a team
Director: Karen Aqua
runaway (train en folie)
of jellyfish.
USA / 2009 / 9 min.
Directer: Cordell Barker
One of the festival’s favorite
THE INTERNATIONAL VOICE
Canada / 2009 / 9 min. The Man Who Slept (l’homme
animators returns with a colorful,
qui dort)
OF THE FILM BUSINESS
Delightfully absurd animation, almost playful meditation on
surprisingly accurate social
Director: Inés Sedan
the nature of the human body,
Canada / 2009 / 12 min.
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Belleville) vividly mark the journey woman who escapes the suf-
of award winner Cordell Barker’s focating memory of a lost love by
runaway train. embarking on a new adventure
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