See the theatrical premiere of Oscar winning BOB'S BIRTHDAY, one of 13 animated short films from four countries which demonstrates a wide range of styles and techniques, from traditional cel animation to cutting edge computer and claymation wizardry. Other program highlights include 1995's other Academy Award nominees THE BIG STORY, TRIANGLE, THE JANITOR, and THE MONK AND THE FISH. The program is topped off with an encore screening of THE WRONG TROUSERS. Nick Park's claymation masterpiece follows the richly detailed misadventures of Wallace and Gromit - an eccentric inventor and his faithful dog.
Australian-born filmmaker George Miller offers a personal view of Australian films. He suggests that they can be regarded as visual music, public dreaming, mythology, and song-lines.
BEAUTIFUL FUNERALS is a hand-painted double-step-printed film composed of 1) dense blackness variously punctuated by brilliantly colored jewel/flower-like shapes AND 2) interruptive white sections which are fuzzily dotted with blurred whites and criss-crossed by black "brushstrokes" and hard-edge straight black and white lines.
The dynamic PR-agent Hannah is starting up her dream-job in the Hochstedt Company producing toys and soon falls in love with her firm's junior executive director, Wolfgang.
A family, trying to pull themselves together after losing their infant son, moves into a new home, where, almost immediately, the mother begins experiencing paranormal phenomena.
A young man makes ends meet by selling camotes in his small providence town, has zero luck getting with the ladies, and is too broke to afford the hookers of the town.
The true story of a Prussian aristocrat working for German military intelligence during World War II, who, with a group of fellow devout Christians, plotted to assassinate Hitler with a bomb in his briefcase.
