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Animated Shorts: Nature-Related Animations
Sat, Mar 18, 2006
Armor Hall, 2:30PM
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Explore natural phenomena and the psychological relationships between plants and animals in these narrative and non-narrative pieces. Among other selections are the tragic love story of a man and a bird, and the Oscar-nominated depiction of a man’s struggle with a tree that sprouts from his head.
All movie tickets $3, for purchase in Perkins Visitor Center

Serbian animator Igor Coric’s 3 Feathers and a Rainworm tells the tragic love story of a man and a bird; “nature is beautiful but not merciful.”

A knight seeks answers in a shape-shifting cathedral in Polish director Tomek Baginski’s The Cathedral a short film based on a science fiction story by Jacek Dukaj.

Written and directed by Chris Kientz and Simon James, both of Native descent, How the Raven Stole the Sun is a Native American creationist story involving a shrewd Raven, proud Eagle and wise Frog, who together awaken the world with light.

The Pachygrapsus mormatus, known as “depressed crabs”, challenge their unique limitations with new direction in La Révolution des Crabes by French director Arthur de Pins.

Eva Lee’s The Liminal Series plumbs the perceptible edges of molecular, cellular and astronomical universes with striking digital animations.

Oscar nominated Mt. Head ‘Atama-yama’ by Japanese director Koji Yamamura, is the comedic fable of a stingy man who must deal with the public’s appreciation of a cherry tree that sprouts on his head.

Russian Director Sonya Kravtsova’s A Musical Shop is a fairytale about two crickets who open a music store and encounter their first difficult customer, a mother with two "brilliant" kids.

Laura Anderson Barbata questions the effects of progress in Shapono a work of animated linoleum cuts by the Amazon’s Yanomami people.

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