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How to Play Checkers The Incident at Tower 37
8 minutes ■ 2008 ■ USA ■ In Competition 11 minutes ■ 2009 ■ USA ■ In Competition
Thursday 6:40p
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Friday 9:40p
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Saturday 10:10a
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Sunday 12:40p Thursday 6:40p
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Friday 9:40p
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Sunday 3:40p
Sunday 3:40p
Plays in: Animation Shorts (p50)
Plays in: Animation Shorts (p50), Family Shorts (p13)
shorts
Director/Screenwriter/Animator: Chris Perry ■ Producers: Jeanine Dargis, Daniel Inkeles ■
Directors/Animators: Damon Wolf, Lee Wolochuk ■ Music/Composer: Mike Krum
Editors: Andrew Flanagan, Tyler Gorman, Daniel Inkeles, Brendan Toller ■ Music/Composer:
Evan Viera ■ bitfilms.com
A moosehead looks on as a competitive game of checkers morphs
into so much more.
In the middle of a dry, desolate landscape stands Tower 37: a
shimmering water processing station siphoning every last drop
Damon Wolf, Lee Wolochuk
of moisture from a once pristine lake. Day in and day out, the
station’s lone steward monitors the tower’s activities, never
Director’s Statement (Lee Wolochuk)
realizing that Tower 37 is slowly destroying an entire
As a kid, I made claymation movies with
ecosystem. But when two unexpected guests arrive, the tower’s
my mom’s Super 8 movie camera. Now I
operator learns the high cost of his ignorance.
use a digital camera and software to
convert stills into a movie. When I met
Chris Perry
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Damon three years ago, he convinced me to
Damon Wolf
Director’s Statement
work on a movie together. Our plan was to
come up with something simple that we
My own interest as a writer and director is
could film in a couple of months. Although
to create stories that don’t fit the existing
we had a general outline, we filled in the
templates for computer animation (the
details as we went along. I like to think of
family-oriented “cartoon” and the VFX
our little clay men as actors and give them
blockbuster), and to combat those factors
freedom as to how a scene evolves. Damon
that make computer animation so costly to
and I just help them move. Near the end,
produce. It is my hope that this film will not only contribute to
we had only five seconds until the music
the ongoing discussion about the environment (and our abuse
ended, and we were shocked at how our
of it), but that it will also stand as evidence supporting the
little men decided to finish the scene. Lee Wolochuk
viability of lower-cost alternatives to the current modes of
computer animation production.
Filmography: Have a Ball! (2010 AIFF)
Filmography: Catch, Displacement
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