Animation Attack!
PROGRAM ONE
69 min.
Plaza Theatre
Friday, August 6, 2010
10:30 pm



DemiUrge Emesis
Directed by: Aurelio Voltaire - 3 min. - USA
A mummified cat is tormented by the skeletons of past meals. Directed and animated by MTV and Sy Fy Channel veteran Aurelio Voltaire and narrated by Danny Elfman.

QUA
Directed by: Andres Vidal - 9 min. - Spain
At the beginning of time, our world was a desert illuminated by two suns where the mankind barely could keep alive and the night was unknown. Meanwhile one sun provides life, the other one provides a sure death. Then, the change started…

8bit GHOST HOP!
Directed by: Brian Lonano - 1 min. - USA
A mysterious signal from the moon summons strange ghosts.

Sunday
Directed by: Kris Daw - 12 min. - USA
Sunday is the last day of one man's life and how it was wasted by the mundane routine to which he has become so accustomed.

Homeland
Directed by: Juan de Dios Marfil - 6 min. - Spain
Where there´s a will, there´s a way.

The Magnitude of the Continental Divides
Directed by: Christopher Coleman - 6 min. - USA
Explores the ways we define ourselves and our nations

Anamanaguchi Music Video
Directed by: Jon Clark - 4 min. - USA
A music video for the Nintendocore Band, "Anamanaguchi", the video illustrates how people transcend mundane reality through the things they are passionate about.

Cold Rape
Directed by: Robert Ellmann - 9 min. - Czech/Prague
She's in trouble - but with whom and over what?!

The Sandwich Story
Directed by: Sean Christensen - 4 min. - USA
A sandwich travels around the world in this animated documentary based on a true story.

Sleep Deprived
Directed by: Scott Vollmar and Kevin Lam - 2 min. - USA
A man tries to sleep, but can't do to cricket noises throughout the night.

Froggy went a courting
Directed by: Gary Lund - 4 min. - USA
Based on the traditional ballad that recounts the adventures of Froggy in his courting of Miss Mouse.

Taste
Submitted by: Yvonne Grzenkowicz - 1 min. - USA
A man and a woman are having dinner in a restaurant.

Prayers for Peace
Directed by: Dustin Grella - 8 min. - USA
A narrative stop-motion animation confronting the memory of the artist's younger brother killed in the current conflict in Iraq. Drawn entirely with pastels on a slate chalkboard, the materials used to create the animation become a metaphor for the impermanence of life.