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AUTONOMOUSLESS (2)
Country: USA Year: 2004
Dir:
Mark Landry Rt: 9mins
LES has just discovered that he is the product of a government experiment producing
the first human clone. On the run from government agents and public outrage, LES
must struggle with questions of his own identity. |
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BLINDED
(2)
Country: Canada Year: 2004
Dir:
Jeff Wastila Rt: 5mins
Having suffered a mental breakdown, John rests comfortably within his home, surrounded
by the loving care of his wife and son. After an intruder breaks into John’s
house, he is forced to defend himself and his family. |
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BUSINESS
AS USUAL (1)
Country: Germany Year: 2004
Dir: Tom Zenker Rt: 5mins
Downtown, where the corporations live, business is handled man-to-man. The
company’s seasoned negotiators meet to really ‘thrash out’ the
details of the deal. |
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CLEANING UP
YOUR WORLD (2)
Country: Germany Year: 2004
Dir:
Emre Koca Rt: 12mins
Skinheads start picking on a black guy at the station. He runs and seeks refuge
in the first open shop he finds – a launderette. The skinheads find him
but get a little more resistance than they bargained on from the occupants of
the laundry. |
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THE CARPENTER
& HIS
CLUMSY WIFE (2)
Country: Ireland Year: 2004
Dir: Peter Foott Rt: 14mins
A black comedy about a carpenter who uses his skills to repair what he believes
to be his wife's inadequacies. |
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CODENAME:SIMON
(1)
Country: USA Year: 2004
Dir:
Graham Tallman Rt: 10mins
Simon is a seven year old undercover space agent. His new mission finds him at
his eccentric Aunt Petronella’s house where he waits to be picked by his
parents’ spaceship. |
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CONVERSATIONS
(2)
Country: USA Year: 2004
Dir:
Ben Rock Rt: 17mins
Josh, a small-town mortician, just wants to talk. He finds, however, that his
most meaningful interactions take place with the people he's preparing for burial.
When he's starved for conversation, he's not above bringing new 'friends' back
to the slab. |
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DEATH AWAITS
(2)
Country: USA Year: 2000
Dir:
Brent Peterson Rt: 3mins
A young man dreams of Death one night. Then, on his way to work the next morning
he sees Death following him. Unnerved, he tries to evade the dark figure, but
is eventually forced to confront his fears "face to face" |
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DETECTIVE Q
(1)
Country: Japan Year: 2004
Dir:
Norihiro Koizumi Rt: 10mins
'Detective Q' is a cop who has a strange characteristic - people just love to
‘queue’ behind him. Obviously this can impede a policeman’s
work.
A comedic look at the Japanese habit to join any queue they find.
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DUEL
(2)
Country: USA Year: 2003
Dir:
Colin Elliot Rt: 4mins
Duel is a traditionally hand-drawn animated film about two wizards who duel for
the possession of a powerful book of spells. |
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ECHO
(1)
Country: USA Year: 2004
Dir:
Steve Wood Rt: 4mins
A film created from NASA and The Atomic Energy Commission stock footage, combined
with original animations. Elements were also taken from the 1977 ”Golden
Record,” a metal LP containing sounds, images, and greetings from Earth,
sent into space with the Voyager Spacecraft. |
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GONE
(F)
Country: USA Year: 2004
Dir:
Steve Peterson Rt: 15mins
In the sprit of the Twilight Zone, an average working man experiences the most
mystifying day of his life. He becomes the unwitting victim of the bizarre connection:
one that links two children playing in a cross-town park to his own disappearing
body parts. |
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HIDE AND SEEK
(1)
Country: USA Year: 2004
Dir:
Chris Romana Rt: 5mins
Little bots 'NUTS' and 'BOLTS' agree to play another game of hide and seek. But
perhaps they should’ve taken a moment to figure out the rules, first. When
Bolts suspects cheating, he lets his temper get the best of him. Instead of being
found, he has a “better” idea. |
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THE HITCH HIKER
(F)
Country: USA Year: 2004
Dir:
M. Anthony Jackson Rt: 29mins
Orson Welles in a unique animated film of 'The Mercury Theater on the Air.' In
this haunting visual adaptation, we are introduced to Ronald Adams. A man who,
during a cross country trip, is slowly driven to question his own sanity.
Originally broadcast on US radio in 1941
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IOTA
(2)
Country: UK Year: 2004
Dir:
Simon Dennis Rt: 11mins
Sam, a 5-year-old mute, whose twin sister April disappears one Christmas eve and
on the anniversary of April's disappearance, Sam starts to speak again. A story
about the loss of communication between family members".
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LAS VIANDES
(F)
Country: Spain Year: 2004
Dir:
Jose Antonio Bonet Rt: 20mins
In a restaurant lost in the middle of the mountains, a new guest arrives. He doesn't
want to eat much, but Papandreu, the chef, insists he tastes all his best dishes. |
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LA VIE D'UN
CHEIN (1)
SFL BEST SHORT FILM 2005
Country: USA Year: 2004
Dir:
John Harden Rt: 13mins
A scientist invents a serum that changes him into a dog. Transformed and running
through Parisian streets, it is the most exciting and satisfying night of his
life. By morning, he is human again. Government agents seek control of the serum:
The scientist's future looks bleak, can he again run with the pack? |
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LITTLE DOG
TURPIE (1)
Country: UK Year: 2004
Dir:
Ben Mars Rt: 5mins
At the edge of the deep, dark woods, is a little old house. Inside, Little Dog
Turpie barks to scare off the evil Hobyahs who come to eat up the little old man
and the little old woman who live there. Inspired by German woodcuts and
the drawings of H J Ford in Joseph Jacobs' Fairy Books. |
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'M'
(2)
Country: Mexico Year: 2004
Dir:
Everado Gout Rt: 8mins
A girl called ‘M’ has been training all of her life. A beautiful woman
with an imagination filled with demons and angels battling for survival.
A fusion of Mexican film culture and Manga animation. |
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NATURAL SELECTION
(2)
Country: USA Year: 2004
Dir:
Scott Leberecht Rt: 15mins
Los Angeles 2097, outlaw genetic engineering has transformed the streets into
a battleground between those who protect nature and those who exploit it. Angelo
and his father are part of an organization, sworn to a code of non-violence, fighting
to save innocent wildlife from gene poachers. |
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NETHERBEST
OF BERM-TECH INDUSTRIES (1)
Country: USA Year: 2004
Dir: Dean Ronalds Rt: 6mins
It's a hectic day for three employees of Berm-Tech Industries: Kevin discovers
that the Donnelly Initiative is a mess; Daryl has only one day to rewrite it;
and Mike has a wooden stake driven deeply into his chest. |
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PILLOW GIRL
(2)
Country: USA Year: 2004
Dir:
Ronnie Cramer Rt: 6mins
Originally created for the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Musician/Artist
Ronnie Cramer treated a number of lurid, vintage paperbacks, then ran the collected
image and text data through a variety of synthesizers. The resulting sound files
were then processed and remixed into the soundtrack for the film. |
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RED PLANET
BLUES (1)
Country: USA Year: 2004
Dir:
David H Brooks Rt: 13mins
A little Martian, longing for blue skies and singing birds, thinks his chance
has come to hitch a ride to Earth when he spots a NASA rocket heading towards
Mars.
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SALES MANAGER
OF THE YEAR 2130 (1)
Country: Ireland Year: 2004
Dir:
Declan Hannigan
Three rivals slug it out for the coveted title 'Sales Manager of the year 2130'.
Karl is determined to put main rival Burgess in his place, but how many bodies
will it take... and will Karl rent them or buy them. A twisted tale of corporate
corruption and body politics! |
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SPIRALE
(1)
Country: France Year: 2003
Dir:
Michael Le Meur Rt: 9mins
As he approaches the new world his ship awakes him. A journey of mammoth proportions
across time and space is near its end. But is the scale of the project its undoing? |
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TEENAGE BIKINI
VAMPIRE (1)
Country: USA Year: 2004
Dir:
Devi Snively Rt: 7mins
Two worlds collide when a vampire girl falls for a surfer dude, but will her family
approve? |
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THE REAL
(1)
Country: USA Year: 2004
Dir:
Macie Toporowicz Rt: 4mins
An abstracted journey into the domain of the supernatural described by the late
French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan as “the real”. Visually complex
and hypnotic. |
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THINNING THE
HERD (2)
Country: France Year: 2004
Dir:
Rie Rasmussen Rt: 10mins
A young albino returns to her apartment to find that a vicious killer of the disabled
has made her his next victim. Why does a young man feel compelled to act out brutal
murders? This simple premise becomes the set for a little game of show and tell
between predator and prey. |
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VELVET AND
RATSKINS (2)
Country: USA Year: 2004
Dir:
Evan James Rt: 7mins
Exis lives in an upper class world on the top of a sky scraper. A feral boy named
Jak lives far below in primitive squalor.
When Jak finds a way up into the upper world, the two meet and they are the answer
to each others longing.
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