Shorts program, 60 min, Not rated
This program is a mix of music videos and short animations from around the world. Come downtown to the Soo Theatre and help us kick off Day 5 of the festival!
Director: Tony Wolski, Trevor Naud
Music Video, United States, 2017, 5 min, English, Color
The music video for Protomartyrʼs "A Private Understanding".
Great Lakes Connection: Personnel and location.
Audience Choice Award - Best Music Video
Director: Patrick Moug
Music Video, United States, 2015, 3 min, English, Color
The music video for Sarah Lenore's "If We Try."
Great Lakes Connection: Both singer Sarah Lenore and director Patrick Moug (as well as most of the crew) are Michigan natives.
Director: Adam Grannick
Narrative Short, United States, 2016, 13 min, English, Color
La Folía is a visual anthology of twenty-four short stories from the imaginations of over a dozen different people and all inspired by variations on the same ancient melody. The thematic story that links La Folíaʼs stories begins and ends the film, returning its protagonist full circle, yet changed.
The story follows the pain, loss, joy and redemption of a young ballet student whose body type excludes her from being considered for a role for which she is eminently qualified in skill and passion.
Great Lakes Connection: The director and producer, Adam Grannick, originally hails from Illinois.
Trailer Website Facebook TwitterDirector: Elif Boyacioglu
Animation, Ireland, 2015, 5 min, English, Color, Student Project (Irish School of Animation, BCFE)
Once there was a man who was afraid to go out...
Great Lakes Connection: None.
Director: Thierry Garance, Juan Rodriguez
Animation, France, 2016, 2 min, French, Color
The last 1600 surviving pandas are fighting, in their very own special way, for the perpetuation of their species.
Great Lakes Connection: None.
Director: Aaron Weinstein
Animation, United States, 2017, 2 min, English, Color
When you next hear of a standing ovation, donʼt just assume the show was a sensation.
Great Lakes Connection: We were born and raised in the Chicagoland area.
Director: Radheya Jegatheva
Animation, Australia, 2016, 7 min, English, Color, Student Project (Perth Modern)
Alone in space, an astronaut drifts through the empty void, but then finds another astronaut in the same predicament. She gives him a Polaroid image of the Earth and they team up to go on an epic journey across the universe to return to their planet. Will these star-crossed lovers find home?
Great Lakes Connection: None
Director: Panos Koutivas
Animation, Greece, 2016, 8 min, English, Black & White, Student Project (Ionian University)
This animated short film tells the story of an adult man who found himself in an awkward situation. The reason could be the radiophone, his mind, or something even stranger. The story is based on the live broadcast of the Orson Welles radio play "War of the Worlds" in October of 1938.
Great Lakes Connection: None.
Director: Deb Ethier
Animation, Canada, 2017, 10 min, English, Color
When a summons crash-lands on their ship, Yorick (a clever and inventive skull) and his unusual crew leap, roll, and spin into action to help a visitor from afar return home. Quirky, off-centre animated humour on a non-budget from one-person Seat of the Pants Film Lab. Find out if there really is a flag on the moon!
Great Lakes Connection: The film is entirely the work of one person living in Ontario near the Michigan border.
Director: Eileen OʼMeara
Animation, United States, 2016, 3 min, English, Color
You know the nagging thoughts that start with "Did I leave the coffee on?" and turn in to "Am I pregnant with a devil-baby?" This hand-drawn animation explores anxiety, obsession, and one womanʼs slippery hold on reality.
Great Lakes Connection: Iʼm originally from South Bend, IN.
Director: James Hughes
Animation, United Kingdom, 2017, 7 min, English, Black & White and Color
A short film about the Environmental Age from a team spanning six continents.
Great Lakes Connection: The associate producer is from Illinois and one of the sequences was designed in Ohio.
Saturday, September 16, 10:15am
Soo Theatre
Shorts program
Not rated
60 min
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