TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 86 MIN

Playing Wednesday, March 29 at 7:00 PM at Enzian - Purchase tickets
Playing Friday, March 31 at 9:30 PM at Enzian - Purchase tickets


A PAINFUL GLIMPSE INTO MY WRITING PROCESS (IN LESS THAN 60 SECONDS)
USA, 2005, 1.5 MIN
DIRECTED BY CHEL WHITE
EAST COAST PREMIERE
“First I drop into a cold sweat…” Portland filmmaker Chel White (Magda, 2004 FFF Grand Jury Award for Best Animated Short) shows us how it’s done with images straight from his subconscious . . . or somewhere.


MOONRAKER
USA, 2004, 4.5 MIN
DIRECTED BY FRAN KRAUSE
SOUTHEAST PREMIERE
In this touching slice of 2-D sci-fi, an astronaut seems to prefer his solitary existence on another planet.


FISH HEADS FUGUE AND OTHER TALES FOR TWILIGHT
USA, 2005, 6.5 MIN
DIRECTED BY LAUREN INDOVINA & LINDSEY MAYER-BEUG
SOUTHEAST PREMIERE
Through the device of a magical, rotating puppet theater, a small seer orchestrates a child’s journey in a richly textured, multi-layered world of the imagination. A fascinating and surreal fusion of hand puppets, cutouts, cell animation, computer cutouts, and puppets produced at the Rhode Island School of Design.


TALES OF MERE EXISTENCE
USA, 2004, 5 MIN
DIRECTED BY LEV
Three unique commentaries on stuff you think about but don’t talk about—“Procrastination,” “Horny,” and “The Times I Have Smoked Pot.”


MILTON IS A SHITBAG
USA, 2004, 4.5 MIN
DIRECTED BY COURTNEY DAVIS
FLORIDA PREMIERE
Milton is a small orange kitty. He hates your guts. Winner of the Global Anarchy Award at the Slamdance Film Festival.


THE MANTIS PARABLE
USA, 2005, 8 MIN
DIRECTED BY JOSH STAUB
FLORIDA PREMIERE
A lovely and charming tale of a humble caterpillar trapped in a bug collector’s jar and in need of a helping hand—CGI storytelling of the highest order.


MARVELOUS, KEEN LOONY BIN
USA, 2005, 5.5 MIN
DIRECTED BY LIZZI AKANA
SOUTHEAST PREMIERE
“Spend a day in the life of the headless, limbless, faceless, and brainless.” Another senior film from the Rhode Island School of Design, this one hand drawn, scanned, and each frame individually painted in Photoshop.


FARM FORCE
USA, 2005, 5.5 MIN
DIRECTED BY PAULO ALVARADO & DOMINIC CAROLA
Orlando’s own Project Firefly Animation Studios produced this funny and irreverent twist on the super hero genre. Created by Ethan Long and produced by Robin Cowie (The Blair Witch Project), this is the colorful tale of three farm animals who gain super powers after being struck by a nuclear tornado.


MOONGIRL
USA, 2005, 8.5 MIN
DIRECTED BY HENRY SELICK
SOUTHEAST PREMIERE
A boy and his flying squirrel are caught by a fish and taken to the moon, where they must help a girl battle the gargoyle ghosts and keep things bright. A storybook CGI treat from the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach.


THE TELL TALE HEART
USA/LUXEMBOURG/SPAIN, 2005, 10 MIN
DIRECTED BY RAUL GARCIA
Influenced by the art of Alberto Breccia and rendered in a highly stylized, Frank Miller-esque manner, this is the classic Edgar Allan Poe short story as adapted by Bela Lugosi for a 1940s radio broadcast.


MILCH
USA/RUSSIA, 2005, 15.5 MIN
DIRECTED BY IGOR KOVALYOV
SOUTHEAST PREMIERE/2ND US SHOWING
From the creator of Flying Nansen (FFF 2001), TV’s Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, and The Rugrats Movie, comes this bleak, haunting, and strangely beautiful story of an 8-year-old boy’s discovery of love and suffering as he faces the mortality of his family.


THE FAN AND THE FLOWER
USA, 2005, 7 MIN
DIRECTED BY BILL PLYMPTON
SOUTHEAST PREMIERE
Festival favorite Bill Plympton returns with this unusually sweet and charming tale of an ill fated romance between a lonely ceiling fan and a house plant. Written by Dan O’Shannon and narrated by Paul Giamatti (Sideways).


LIFE IN TRANSITION
USA, 2005, 4 MIN
DIRECTED BY JOHN R. DILWORTH
The man behind Dirty Birdy, Noodles & Ned, The Mousachist, and TV’s Courage the Cowardly Dog, gets cosmic in this stunning and phantasmagoric Dali-esque journey depicting the continual transformations of life from birth to death to rebirth.