Animation Shorts Suite 2010
All Summer Long!
In July and August 2010, we continue our summertime tradition of showing a different animated short before a first-run feature every week. Enjoy this sampling of great animation, both new and old. Each week's short film will be listed with its first-run film in our weekly E-Bulletin.
POSTALOLIO Hundreds of individual drawings were traced onto blank postcards that were then painted, stamped, and mailed before becoming stills in this clever, surprising film.
• Marv Newland. 2009. 6 m. NR. Canada.
MAGIC CUBE AND PING PONG A ping-pong ball combines with quirky figures whose heads resemble Rubik’s cubes to create an abstract love story.
• Lei Lei. 2009. 4 m. China.
TULIPS A gorgeous, up-close, hand-drawn ode to the kiss. “With the taboo of voyeurism lifted,” says filmmaker Jeff Scher, “we are drawn in to participate vicariously.”
• Jeff Scher. 2008. 2 m. US. Fez Films.
THE ART OF DROWNING Based on a poem by Billy Collins, The Art of Drowning uses stunning black-and-white animated drawings to examine the possibilities of what awaits us at the end of the line.
• Diego MacLean. 2009. 2 m. Canada.
SWING YOU SINNERS! A classic. Starring Bimbo the dog, this is simply one of the most imaginative cartoons ever made.
• Max Fleischer/Dave Fleischer. 1930. 8 m. US. UCLA Film & Television Archive.
GALILEO Living in a gentle world of soft color and flat backgrounds, a boy pursues his dream of flight, returning to the drawing board again and again for each gravity-defying feat.
• Avrillon Ghislain. 2009. 5 m. US.
TACHAAAN! In this hilarious 3D animation, we see what happens to The Human Cannonball when he mistreats his fellow carnival performers. The moral: Don’t mess with pink elephants.
• Rafael Cano/Carlos del Olmo/Miguel A. Bellot. 2010. 5 m. Spain.
ANDALUZ The Boston Globe says that this colorful homage to the culture, landscape, and architecture of southern Spain “is just six minutes long, but the tale spans centuries.”
• Karen Aqua/Joanna Priestley. 2004. 6 m. US.
