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Tales of Mere Existence (2010) Your Lucky Day
17 minutes ■ 2009 ■ USA ■ In Competition 16 minutes ■ 2009 ■ USA ■ In Competition
Thursday 6:40p
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Friday 9:40p
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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) Plays in: Short Stories (p50)
shorts
Director/Producer/Animator/Editor/Narrator: Lev Yilmaz ■ ingredientx.com/main.htm Director/Screenwriter: Dan Brown ■ Producer: Lacey Leavitt ■ Executive Producers: Nathan
F. Barr, Thai Tran ■ Cinematographer: Michael Ragen ■ Principal Cast: Phil Davidson, Tony
A collection of quirky animations about social confusion, sex,
Doupe, Michael Hudson, Sean Nelson, Thomas Ohrstrom, Pisay Pao, Lynn Shelton, Rider
and alienation. Narrated and illustrated in “real time,” this is the
Strong
comedy of self obsession...the stuff people think about but never
say aloud. [adult content]
When an elderly man discovers he’s won $156 million in the
lottery while shopping at a convenience store, a young man
Lev Yilmaz
decides to make his own odds. The store manager and a married
couple are also mixed up in the game. Who will make it out of
Director’s Statement
the store alive? Cast includes the director (Lynn Shelton) and
I started the ultra-low tech film series in
star (Sean Nelson) of My Effortless Brilliance (2008 AIFF).
2003, based on gleefully embarassing
[language, violence]
thoughts and stories from my life. Films
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from the series have shown on Comedy
Dan Brown
Central, Independent Film Channel, and
Director’s Statement
innumerable shows and festivals since and have gathered a
substantial cult audience on the internet, as the Tales series
For me things always start with an image,
YouTube views have recently passed 15,000,000. I continued
something that sparks my imagination. In
the series with the book Sunny Side Down a collection of Tales
this case it was somebody finding a wining
comics, published by Simon & Schuster in 2009.
lottery ticket they didn’t buy. How did it get
there? The film grew out of that basic idea.
Filmography: Hierarchy, Tales of Mere Existence (2007 AIFF)
Another aspect that fascinated me was the idea of fate and
chance, the odds are so staggeringly against the player even the
most hardened cynic has to feel a bit of “why me?” In the end it’s
really a moral question: If you find a lottery ticket worth $156
million do you turn it in or try to keep it?
Filmography: Directorial Debut
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