Dir: Various

February 20, 2007 · 9:00pm - 10:00pm

SXSW Presents is excited to present a new program dedicated specifically to animated shorts. This collection features work from award winning artists from Austin and beyond.

• Pilgrim’s Progress
  Dir: James Dingle
  Dorchester, Massachusetts
  When MS-DOS is loaded, insert the PILGRIMS_PROGRESS program disk into the drive. Follow the instructions.
• Magda
  Dir: Chel White
  Portland, Oregon
  In this stop motion animation of wooden mannequins, a man recalls his tormented affair with a beautiful circus contortionist.
• Filmstrip
  Dir: Peggy Nelson
  Somerville, Massachusetts
  Filmstrip is an educational filmstrip for young adults about the perils of modern relationships.  It combines found footage with original artwork and dialogue.  Filmstrip is digital and concerns contemporary issues, but its form mimics the filmstrips used in elementary schools from the 1960s and 1970s.
• Heart Collector
  Dir: Michael Fallik
  Vancouver Film School
  Vancouver, Canada
  A man with no heart rips out the hearts of lovers in order to make himself one of his own.
• Grasshopper
  Dir: Bob Sabiston
  Austin, Texas
  In Grasshopper, park-bench philosopher AJ Vadehra expounds on astrology and more productive avenues of contemplation.  Done all in green, this animated but otherwise unedited fifteen minute interview film is a good example of what happen when you approach the right stranger with a camera.
• Pilotdrift "Bubblecraft"
  Dir: Geoff Marslett
  Austin, Texas
  Bubblecraft is a story of everyday people. Workdays are okay. School is so-so. Life isn’t bad, but it isn’t that good either. What does it take to pull them out of their humdrum day-to-day worlds? In this case an extra-terrestrial water sphere widens the horizons for a businessman, an office worker, and a fourth grade public school student.
• Mural
  Dir: Jose Luis Osorio
  Vancouver Film School
  Vancouver, Canada
  This film is about a painter that is haunted by his own mind, which is represented by his painting.
• Famous: The Night Asher the Clown Forgot to Wear his Pants
  Dir: Adam Parish King
  Los Angeles, California
  Asher the clown is serious about performing.  He concentrates, he
  focuses, he prepares, but unfortunately he forgets one thing.
• The Astronomer
  Dir: Lance Myers
  Austin, Texas
  Stellar constellations are likened to bittersweet memories in this
  three-minute animated short.  We follow an aging astronomer through his
  homemade observatory as he peers at the night sky and backwards through
  his life.