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Alley Dog Axioms of a Dishwasher
6 minutes ■ 2008 ■ USA ■ In Competition 7 minutes ■ 2009 ■ USA ■ In Competition
Thursday 6:40p
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Friday 9:40p
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Sunday 9:30a
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Sunday 3:40p Friday 12:40p
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Saturday 6:40p
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Sunday 9:40p
Plays in: Animation Shorts (p50), Locals Only 1 (p51) Plays in: Short Stories (p50)
shorts
Directors/Animators: Trisha Johansen, Casey Pyke ■ Music/Composer: Andrew Hathon Director: Vance Malone ■ Producers: David Allen Cress, Sarah McMurray ■ Screenwriter:
Charles Augustus Steen III ■ Cinematographer: Marc Greenfield ■ Editor: Slater Dixon ■
Flying robots lead a curious robotic canine on an exciting chase
Music/Composer: Ethan Rose ■ Narrator: Robert Blanche ■ Principal Cast: Zack Bainter,
through a futuristic, abandoned city.
Sarah McMurray ■ axiomsofadishwasher.com
Trisha Johansen, Casey Pyke
This satirical meditation examines the art of finding, keeping
and coping with one of the world’s necessary but thankless
Students: Southern Oregon University
jobs. Part instructional video, part philosophical treatise, the
film beautifully explores the subjective nature of self-worth and
Directors’ Statement (Casey Pyke)
poses the question: can you take pride in any job well done? See
The film was conceptualized when Trisha director Vance Malone’s other film The Poodle Trainer (p34).
gave a character she had created with a 3-D
computer program to me to animate and
Vance Malone
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have fun with. About a year of hard work Trisha Johansen
Director’s Statement
and creative collaboration later, we had
made this fully original animated short. A friend of mine stopped by to tell me
With the help of our friend, Andrew Hathon, about his terrible day at work. He had just
the film was completed with music and finished a miserable week of working as a
ready for the theater. dishwasher and started ranting that he
wasn’t respected for his position. In his
Filmography: Johansen: Deepsong (2008 AIFF), Southern moment of frustration, he wrote down
Oregon Meth Project PSA; Pyke: Beautiful, Elpie Blue, MIC about 25 “axioms of a dishwasher” and I wondered, does this
(2008 AIFF), Southern Oregon Meth Project PSA feeling translate to something more universal? How does one
find self-worth for doing something so thankless?
Casey Pyke
Filmography: Losing Lusk (2006 AIFF), Ocularist, The Poodle Trainer (2010 AIFF)
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