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Directed by: Diana Reichenbach, USA, 3 minutes, Rating: MT

An experimental, immersive fulldome animated film that explores the evolution of human perception.  This new film from a third-time RiverRun alum fuses digital media with nature to show how our way of experiencing nature has shifted.

Animated Shorts

Animated shorts are always a favorite to program because there is such a wide variety of styles to choose from and such an amazing world of stories, from true, serious stories to the wildly imaginative and otherworldly. 

Bottle

Directed by: Kirsten Lepore, USA, 5 minutes, Rating: MT

Created entirely on-location using stop-motion animation, this ingenious film tells the story of two characters, one made of snow and one made of sand, who meet and become friends via objects in a bottle.  But, when they try to meet underwater, things don’t work out exactly as they planned.

Dripped

Directed by: Leo Verrier, France, 9 minutes, Rating: MT

The idea of feeding your soul with art takes on drastic new meaning in this short film where Jack, an art enthusiast, literally eats up the art.  But, when he has overdone his gorging, he must begin to paint for himself, just to survive.

Hellville

Directed by: Rémy Busson, Yann Drevon, Aurélien Duhayon, Laurent Durieux, Maxime Mege-Ythier, Florian Pichon, Julien Soler, Raphaël Tillie and Gonglin Wang, France, 4 minutes, Rating: MT

In a city where all vehicles are powered only by the humans frantically pedaling them along, one woman changes the entire balance of the city by roaring in on a motorbike and showing the rest of the citizens just what they could have too.

Here Be Dragons

Directed by: Manuel Barenboim, USA, 7 minutes, Rating: MT

Part of the experimental animation showcase for CalArts, this fascinating short uses light to dazzling and mesmerizing effect.  Done fully in-camera without any post-effects, this film brings the Dinosaurs back to life – at least for a short visit.

Junk

Directed by: Kirk Hendry, UK, 7 minutes, Rating: MT

Using wonderfully vivid animation this short tells a tale of how an obsession with junk food takes one child on a wild journey from which he just may not come back.  In this film, junk food proves hard to swallow!

La Detente

Directed by: Pierre Ducos and Bertrand Bey, France, 9 minutes, Rating: MT

War can be a desensitizing experience and sometimes soldiers have to find imaginative ways to deal with the horrors around them.  In this stunningly animated short, a French soldier in WWI, paralyzed with fear, disconnects from reality and envisions a world fought by toys.

Luminaris

Directed by: Juan Pablo Zaramella, Argentina, 6 minutes, Rating: MT

One man, bored with his routine job in a light bulb factory, decides that he has a way out and in the process, changes the natural order of things.  Using the pixellation technique, time-lapse sequences and real actors mixed with animation objects, this film certainly gives audiences a uniquely new perspective.

Multiply

Directed by: Emily Henricks, USA, 3 minutes, Rating: MT

In an effort to explore motion, Henricks combines design, composition, music and a minimal amount of cycling frames to create a variety of different kinds of motion.  This fascinating film was nominated for a 2010 Student Academy Award.

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