Animation
Shorts
Student 3

In Passing

4 minutes 08 seconds/2019/Canada/Colour/Digital

Director // Esther Cheung

A portrait of seventies Hong Kong as my parents remember it.

2.3 x2.6 x 3.2

3 minutes, 47 seconds/2019/UK/Colour/Digital

Director // Jiaqi Wang

This project is based on the Welcome Collection Museum. A filmmaker needs to choose an object from the museum and make a film based on it. Kareau is a wooden figure from the Nicobar Islands. It was set up, put outside a sick person’s house to scare and drive away from the bad spirits thought to be causing the disease.

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.

Flap

3 minutes, 15 seconds/2019/USA/Colour/Digital

Director // Jessica Gallaher

Producer // Shannon Parayil

Flap is 2D short about a girl named Harper who twitches and shakes her hands in order to engage with her big imagination. For the first time, Harper comes to understand how her hand flapping is seen in the eyes of others.

Balance

7 minutes 02 seconds/2019/Belgium/Colour/Stop Motion

Director/Writer/Producer // Timothée Crabbé

Partners on stage and in life, acrobats Alec and Theo find each other in a perfect balance between lifting and flying, between leading and following, until this fragile balance is turned upside down by an accident. While Alec has to understand his physical situation, Theo climbs into the depths of his being, looking for the strength to deal with reality.

The Hidden River of My Life: A Sufjan Stevens Music Video

4 minutes, 34 seconds/2019/Canada/Colour/Digital

Director //Kate Woodward

College // Emily Carr University of Art + Design

A multimedia music video set to Sufjan Stevens’ “The Hidden River of My Life” illustrates a cosmic, yet deeply intimate exploration of humanity: our past, our present, and the places we might go.

Wolfrid’s Wish

2 minutes, 40 seconds/2019/Canada/Colour/Stop Motion

Director // Anna Ryzhkova

A wolf hosts his birthday party.

Hungry

2 minutes 39 seconds/2019/USA/Colour/Digital

Director // Yaou Chen

A film about a T-rex, who is starving in the desert and looking for food. It is a film about his adventure with meeting with other wild animals.

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.

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.

Petty Thing

3 minutes 46 seconds/2019/China/Colour/3D

Director/Writer/Producer // Li zexi

The summer afternoon was no special, until the kids, also gun fight lovers, hung around in the village and found a replica pistol. As the trigger was pulled, the whole wood was awakened.

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.

The Bear Hunter

7 minutes 27 seconds/UK/Colour/Digital

Director // Sayaka Hara

Writer // Kenji Miyazawa

A hunter who lives in the mountain knows the bears well. She apologizes to each bear every time she kills one, but she has to, for it is how she makes her living. One evening, she comes across a bear and when she is about to kill it, the bear speaks to her.