The Animation Show, Volume I - 2005 - Don Hertzfeldt torrent

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The Animation Show is an international collection of the world's best animated short films, programmed by co-producers Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt. The Show's annual goal is to bring animated shorts into more proper theaters than any other program in American history.





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THE CATHEDRAL (2002)
Technique: 3D Animation
Country: Poland

Based on the novel by Jacek Dukaj, the Cathedral is the story of a pilgrim who arrives at the edge of the world at the end of a long journey. Here he finds the Cathedral, a place full of secrets. The Cathedral is not just a building, and the pilgrim is not just a man.

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EARLY PENCIL TESTS AND OTHER EXPERIMENTS BY MIKE JUDGE (CIRCA 1990)
Technique: Traditional 2D Animation
Country: USA

A collection of never-before-seen character animation and experiments 'from the archives' of Mike Judge, plus the very rare early short film, Huh? and the first Office Space animated short with Milton - later to become the inspiration for the live action feature film.

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FIFTY PERCENT GREY (2001)
2002 Academy Award Nominee - Best Animated Short Film
Technique: 3D Animation
Country: Ireland


A dead solider wakes up to find himself with his gun, a widescreen TV, and a whole lot of time...

The director comments... "My idea was to make a story where the character starts out a hero, turns into a coward and ends up a fool. It's basically a big cruel trick played on him by whoever controls the afterlife... It's nice to be able to make a movie that has a really unhappy ending, and yet people still seem to enjoy it. I know it's potentially controversial subject matter - there were complaints on Irish Radio after its run in the cinema... but at least I didn't try to tack on an upbeat ending, which I believe is a way of taking it more seriously."

PRODUCTION CREDITS
a Zanita Films Production
a Short animated film by Ruairi Robinson
Produced by Seamus Byrne
Edited, Written and Directed by Ruairi Robinson
Music by Autechre

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LA COURSE À L'ABÎME (1992)
Technique: Acrylic paint on cel
Country: Switzerland

"The Ride to the Abyss"... Two riders on galloping horses disappear and reappear, alternating with other animated images moving to the same rhythm...

Georges Schwizgebel has directed 15 animated films during the last three decades, while also creating theatre sets, designing murals and participating in numerous exhibitions. His films reveal a plastic universe, one that surprises us with its efficient and economical use of lines while demonstrating a real sense of animated motion - all this accompanied by surprising musical twists and turns.

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Animated and Directed by Georges Schwizgebel
Music: "La Damnation de Faust", by Hector Berloiz

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MT. HEAD (ATAMA YAMA) (2002)
2003 Academy Award Nominee - Best Animated Short Film
Technique: Traditional 2D Animation combined with CGI
Country: Japan

After a stingy man eats some cherry seeds, a cherry tree grows on his head. A modern interpretation of the traditional Japanese Rakugo story, "Atama-yama", set in contemporary Tokyo.

The director comments... "Through the nonsense Japanese old comic story Atama-yama, I wanted to express a mixed theme - a connection between one's identity and the public, and an everlasting idea such as the wonder of world being. This work is a completely independent project and took six years from planning to finish."

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Animated, Directed, and Edited by Koji Yamamura
Screenplay by Shoji Yonemura
Narration and Shamisen by Takeharu Kunimoto
Music by Takeharu Kunimoto Syzygys
Sound Design by Koji Kasamatsu
Based on the Original Story (rakugo), "Atama-yama"

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PARKING (2003)
Technique: Traditional 2D Animation
Country: USA

A single blade of grass in an otherwise pristine parking lot sparks an escalating war of wills.

The director comments... "My apartment in New York City overlooks a parking lot, and I've often wondered about what kind of character lives and works in the tiny booth on the lot. I imagined the attendant as an egotistical, territorial megalomaniac who rules his domain with an iron foot and immediately disposing of any uninvited trespasser, like a blade of grass. But, this is not your normal blade of grass as their duel of wits escalates, it becomes a Road Runner vs. Wile E. Coyote type of battle, with the final victory going to nature. I made the film in about two months and people enjoy its kinetic energy, good vs. evil theme, and the ending, in which nature survives over all."

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Written, Directed and Animated by Bill Plympton

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THE ROCKS (DAS RAD) (2001)
2003 Academy Award Nominee - Best Animated Short Film
Technique: Stop Motion Animation combined with CGI
Country: Germany

The stone people have seen a lot in their everlasting lives atop their mountain, so they're only mildly amazed by the comings and goings inside the valley below. But when Mankind begins to progress and grow, this new behavior threatens the rocks' serenity..

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WELCOME TO THE SHOW/ INTERMISSION IN THE THIRD DIMENSION/ THE END OF THE SHOW (2003)
Technique: Traditional 2D Animation combined with Stop-Motion and Experimental Animation
Country: USA

Produced exclusively for the first year of the Animation Show, this "trilogy" of shorts was animated, photographed, and completed in nine months (Oct 2002 to June 2003), during the off-hours of work on Hertzfeldt's new film, which was at the time three years into production. Shifting gears in the midst of such a difficult and relatively somber project to simultaneously animate something fun and silly again proved to be a welcome and much needed change. What was originally meant to be a very short trilogy to book-end the Show quickly ballooned into a much wilder and more experimental set of cartoons totalling eight minutes.

Collectively, the three films are actually among Bitter Films' most expensive productions, due in large part to the multitude of special effects and trial and error experimentation required in photography. In addition to several optical effects shots - a backlight process developed for the new film but used for the first time here - there was a wealth of experimental animation: double exposures, shadow and lighting effects, stop motion hybrids, and more. The optical backlight effects (fire, lasers, etc) were all achieved traditionally and in-camera, via a process similar in theory to how the optical effects of the original 1977 Star Wars were created. As Hertzfeldt figured out how to pull more of these effects shots off, the metaphorical dam of additional ideas broke and the three pieces grew.

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Camera, Writing, Animation, Sound, Production, and Direction by Don Hertzfeldt
Editing by Rebecca Moline
Voices by Robert May and Don Hertzfeldt
Sound Production by Tim Kehl
A Bitter Films Production

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The Adventures of Ricardo (1996)
Technique: Claymation
Country: USA

Three shorts from the wild mind of Corky Quakenbush introduce us to the misguided world of Ricardo and his adventures.

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Directed and animated by Corky Quakenbush
Voiced by Corky Quakenbush
Produced by Space Bass Films

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BILLY'S BALLOON (1998)
Technique: Traditional 2D Animation
Country: USA

A boy and his balloon.

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Writing, Animation, Sound, and Direction by Don Hertzfeldt
Editing and Direction Of Photography by Rebecca Moline
Sound Production by Tim Kehl
A Bitter Films Production

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BROTHER (1999)
Technique: Claymation
Country: Australia

BROTHER - The childhood memory of a brother, his cigarette butts, asthma and head lice.

UNCLE, COUSIN and BROTHER, (THE TRILOGY) have all screened at over 300 festivals throughout the world and have won over fifty awards, including 4 Australian Film Institute Awards (Oz Oscars), 3 Aspen Shortfest Awards, 2 Dendy Awards amongst others and these are not only in the animation category, but also for script and direction.

Adam has become one of Australia's most celebrated filmmakers, his short film trilogy, Uncle, Cousin and Brother, is one of the countries most highly awarded and successful collection of short films. It has participated in over two hundred film festivals and has won over fifty awards. The films have won four AFI Awards from five nominations, and each has been shortlisted for Academy Award consideration. Adam's latest film HARVIE KRUMPET has also been nomiated for an academy award. For more info on HARVIE KRUMPET you can click here. To catch this short before the awards please visit our forum for a complete list of screenings near you.

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Written, directed and animated by Adam Elliot
Produced by Adam Elliot Pictures
Narrated by William McInnes

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COUSIN (1998)
Technique: Claymation
Country: Australia

COUSIN - The childhood remembrance of a cousin, his special arm, pet rocks and shopping trolley.

UNCLE, COUSIN and BROTHER, (THE TRILOGY) have all screened at over 300 festivals throughout the world and have won over fifty awards, including 4 Australian Film Institute Awards (Oz Oscars), 3 Aspen Shortfest Awards, 2 Dendy Awards amongst others and these are not only in the animation category, but also for script and direction.

Adam has become one of Australia's most celebrated filmmakers, his short film trilogy, Uncle, Cousin and Brother, is one of the countries most highly awarded and successful collection of short films. It has participated in over two hundred film festivals and has won over fifty awards. The films have won four AFI Awards from five nominations, and each has been shortlisted for Academy Award consideration. Adam's latest film HARVIE KRUMPET has also been nomiated for an academy award. For more info on HARVIE KRUMPET you can click here. To catch this short before the awards please visit our forum for a complete list of screenings near you.

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Written, directed and animated by Adam Elliot
Produced by Adam Elliot Pictures
Narrated by William McInnes

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ARIA (2001)
Technique: Stop Motion Animation
Country: Canada

An animated short inspired by Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly. The puppet Butterfly lives alone on an island, until a white ship brings the handsome sailor Pinkerton. Their love affair grows until Pinkerton has to leave with his ship. The Butterfly gives birth and waits for her sailor to return. Years later when her prayers are answered her world is torn to pieces when he returns.

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Production by National Film Board of Canada
Direction by Pjotr Sapegin
Script by Berit Reiss-Andersen
Direction of Photography by Janne Hansen
Animation by Pjotr Sapegin, Ronald Kubicek Hansen
Puppets Made by Eugenia Bogolubova
Models by Ronald Kubicek Hansen
Editing by Pal Gengenbach
Production by David Reiss-Andersen (Pravada), Marcel Jean (ONF/NFB
Music: Excerpts from Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini

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BATHTIME IN CLERKENWELL (2002)
Technique: Computer Animation
Country: USA


The cuckoos have taken over London and no one is safe! These Little Napoleons and Kaisers get a whimsical Metropolis-type assembly line going that will have you tapping your toes to the beat. This Vaudeville inspired tune is brought to us by “The Real Tuesday Weld’s".

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Animation by Alex Budovsky
Music by “(The Real) Tuesday Weld”
Film Copyright: Alex Budovsky
Music Copyright: Stephen Coates

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UNCLE (1996)
Technique: Claymation
Country: Australia

UNCLE - The biography of a humble man, his lemon tree, chihuahua and crumpets.

UNCLE, COUSIN and BROTHER, (THE TRILOGY) have all screened at over 300 festivals throughout the world and have won over fifty awards, including 4 Australian Film Institute Awards (Oz Oscars), 3 Aspen Shortfest Awards, 2 Dendy Awards amongst others and these are not only in the animation category, but also for script and direction.

Adam has become one of Australia's most celebrated filmmakers, his short film trilogy, Uncle, Cousin and Brother, is one of the countries most highly awarded and successful collection of short films. It has participated in over two hundred film festivals and has won over fifty awards. The films have won four AFI Awards from five nominations, and each has been shortlisted for Academy Award consideration. Adam's latest film HARVIE KRUMPET has also been nomiated for an academy award. For more info on HARVIE KRUMPET you can click here. To catch this short before the awards please visit our forum for a complete list of screenings near you.

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Written, directed and animated by Adam Elliot
Produced by the Victorian College of the Arts, School of Film and Television, Melbourne University.
Narrated by William McInnes

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MOVING ILLUSTRATIONS OF MACHINES (2000)
Technique: Computer Animation
Country: USA

Inspired by the cloning and birth of Dolly the Sheep, Moving Illustrations of Machines is a painstakingly detailed animated film. It consists of hand drawn ink artwork completed over a span of nearly four years. Describing the convergence of man and technology, it is a surreal look at a mechanical world where human eggs are genetically reprogrammed by ominous machines.

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Direction, Animation, Story by Jeremy Solterbeck
Transfer by DV Film Digital Transfers
Supported by the Film Arts Foundation Grants Program


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