Competition 2

Poochini 03:40
USA 2016
Directed by: Max Colson
Screenplay: Max Colson
Animation: Max Colson
Technique: 2D computer
Music: Florian Calmer
Production/School: School of Visual Arts
Dialogue language: English


A man has a mental breakdown in the shower when his deepest fear confronts him.



Solo 05:23
USA 2016
Directed by: Brendan Kirschbaum
Screenplay: Brendan Kirschbaum
Animation: Brendan Kirschbaum
Technique: 3D
Music: Jake Peterson
Production/School: R.I.T. School of Film & Animation


Backstage, a nervous elephant prepares for his trumpet solo.



“Parade” de Satie 14:12
Japan 2016
Directed by: Koji Yamamura
Screenplay: Koji Yamamura
Animation: Koji Yamamura
Technique: 2D
Music: Erik Satie
Production/School: Koji Yamamura
Subtitles language: English


A Parade for 3 managers & 4 performers. Mixing quotes from French composer Erik Satie’s essays with the music Parade, this is an animated re-creation of realist ballet images going beyond reality.



Time Portal Glory Hole 10:07
USA 2016
Directed by: Jason Petrovitch
Screenplay: Jason Petrovitch
Animation: Jason Petrovitch
Technique: 2D
Production/School: Footknuckle Production
Dialogue language: English


Abundance is good for everyone? That theory will be tested in this anti-gentrification manifesto. By way of a faulty phone app, a hipster is transported to Windsor Castle in the year 1840, where he disrupts Queen Victoria's dinner party. A searing indictment of so many things of which only a time traveling penis has the ability to give a poke.



Ron Ford's Nightmare, c. 1966 01:35
USA 2016
Directed by: Ron Ford
Screenplay: Ron Ford
Animation: Ron Ford
Technique: 2D
Production/School: Ron Ford


A nightmare from my childhood in which a boy riding the bus of life encounters his idols and discovers the dread of his own mortality.



Dreamcaught 03:00
United Kingdom 2015
Directed by: Natasza Center
Screenplay: Natasza Cetner
Animation: Natasza Cetner
Technique: 2D
Music: Natasza Cetner
Production/School: University of Westminster
Dialogue language: English


Dreamcaught focuses on relations between seemingly accidental images we come across in our dreams or nightmares. The visions we see in our dreams can tell us some stories with sensible plots and characters. We can replay our memories changed in a way according to our emotions or experiences. But what is the most disturbing and therefore fascinating is the chain of surprising, grotesque dark scenes that are stuck in our subconscious. 



The Scape / A Fuga 10:00
Brazil 2015
Directed by: Douglas Alves Ferreira
Screenplay: Douglas Alves Ferreira
Animation: Douglas Alves Ferreira, Paulo Henrique, Amanda Rovaqon, Leandro Mendes, Paula Urbinatti, Isabela Tamers, Douglas Ayres
Technique: 2D, Cut-outs
Music: Thiago Duar
Production/School: Douglas Alves Ferreira


It’s 50 B.C. in ancient Egypt, the Roman army just invaded the country and it is conducting prisoners through
the desert. Nonconformist a boy tries to scape his captors.