After
Dark
Toons

This carefully curated programme is not for the faint hearted and includes monsters, terror and surprises!

PIT STOP

3 minutes, 55 seconds/2019/USA/Colour/Stop Motion

Director // Mikail Ekiz

Producer // Madeleine Arana

A Stop-Motion/3D Hybrid Short about a gas station convenience store clerk who has a Magic 8 Ball for a head that can predict the future, he lives in a constant state of paranoia due to the fear that others will discover his secret.

Home Away 3000

11 minutes, 17 seconds/2019/France/Colour/Stop Motion

Director/Writer // Héloïse Pétel, Philippe Baranzini

Producer //Les Films du Pingouin, ENSAD

After crashing on an unknown planet, a space traveler begins repairing his spaceship. Little does he know he is before a special and surprising encounter…

The Weighing of the Heart

6 minutes, 15 seconds/2019//Switzerland/Colour/Digital

Directors // Rosemarie E. Benson and Laura M. Weber

College // University of Lucerne

For thousands of years Anubis, the ancient Egyptian Guardian of the Underworld, has performed the Weighing of the Heart. Once however the Scales of Justice cannot decide whether the heart is good or bad. In the following confrontation Anubis must prove himself against Ammit, a crocodilian goddess, thereby becoming the true God of the Dead.

Don’t Croak

1 minutes 40 seconds/2019/United States/Colour/Digital

Director // Daun Kim

College // Ringling College of Art and Design

An agile long-legged frog escapes from being dissected by a frenzied determined 12 years old girl.

The Freeway Man

2 minutes 26 seconds/USA/Colour/Stop Motion

Director // Paige Hurd

Producer // Sofia Perez

A stop motion film about a demon who feeds off fear running into a kid who’s indifferent to the demon’s scare tactics and is only concerned about his music.

Hounds

5 minutes 47 seconds/2019/Israel/Black and White/Digital

Director/Writer // Ido Shapira, Amit Cohen

College // Bezalel Academy of Art

The life of a dog, trained to act as human, changes when a pack of Hounds gathers around his house.

Agony Ant

2 minutes 58 seconds/2019/Ireland/Colour/Digital

Director/Writer // Sean Cunningham

Producers // Stephen Fagan

Some said it would never happen, but now the giant foot has come. Under pressure, one brave ant in her workshop uses all her smithing skills to craft the only weapon that can fend off the legendary giant foot.

Horror

2 minutes, 10 seconds/2019//Ireland/Colour/3D

Director/Writer // Jordan Beatty

College // Colaiste Dhúlaigh

Jamie wakes up to a banging at the door while home alone as something looms outside.

Monsters in the Dark

6 minutes 02 seconds/2019/USA/Colour/Digital

Director/Writer // Apollonia Thomaier

Producer // Apollonia Thomaier, Aizen Chiu, Tina Huang

Monsters In The Dark is a 3D/2D animated short film about a young boy haunted by his abused past fears the love of his new family and runs away into a dark forest where he meets a monster that will change his life forever. A thesis by MFA student Apollonia Thomaier.

Terror Fervor

6 minutes/2019/Canada/Colour/Digital

Director/Writer // Phoebe Parsons

Informed by experimental films from the 1960s and 70s, Terror Fervor takes the viewer on a psychedelic non-linear journey through the vices of seven characters. The wordless journey of Terror Fervor plunges the viewer into an experience that is hard to classify and hard to forget.

Happy Hob Kabob

8 minutes 48 seconds/2019/USA/Colour/Mixed Media

Director // Austin Frick

A crazed old man recounts the steps he took to celebrate the biggest holiday of the year, Hob Kabob.