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“Cult animator and Academy Award nominee Don Hertzfeldt (Rejected,
Billy’s Balloon, the Meaning of Life) is hitting the road for a rare
series of events! A selection of Don’s classic animated shorts will
return to the big screen, culminating in the exclusive regional
premiere of his newest film, It’s such a beautiful day: the third and
final chapter in a trilogy about a mysterious man named Bill.

Chapter One, Everything will be OK, won the Sundance Film Festival’s
Jury Award in Short Filmmaking and was named by many critics as one of
the “best films of 2007″. Chapter Two, I am so proud of you, received
twenty-seven awards and was described by the San Francisco
International Film Festival as, “[his] best yet… even the Hertzfeldt
faithful may be too stunned to laugh.”

Nearly two years in the making, the 23-minute It’s such a beautiful
day is Don’s longest, and most ambitious, piece to date: blending
traditional animation, experimental optical effects, trick
photography, and new digital hyrbids printed out one frame at a time,
the movie was captured entirely on an antique 35mm animation stand,
one of the last operating cameras of its kind left in America.

The entire animated trilogy will be screened together for the first
time via new 35mm prints, immediately followed by a live on-stage
interview and audience chat with Don Hertzfeldt”……..

“Audience choice award Winner” The Little Boy and the Beast by: Johannes Weiland and Uwe Heidschöetter

“Student film, Best in show” The Backwater Gospel by: Bo Mathorne

“Student film, Runner up” The Renaissance Man by: Jess Marley

“Student film, Runner up” Provencal Sun by: Han Gao

“Design in Character, Student Competition” Mon Monde by: Chrystin Garland

“JUICED! 26 Hour Film Competition” by: Tiger Lily

A boy discovers a bizarre-looking creature while out collecting bottle-tops at a beach. Realising it is lost, he tries to find out who owns it or where it belongs, a problem that is met with indifference from everyone else, who barely notice its presence. Each is unhelpful in their own way; strangers, friends, parents are all unwilling to entertain this uninvited interruption to day-to-day life. They are all ‘too busy doing other stuff’. For reasons he does not explain, the boy empathises with the creature, or at least seems determined to find a place for it.

They visit the home of the boy’s best friend, an amateur scientist who makes an unhelpful assessment: ‘it doesn’t belong to anyone, and doesn’t come from anywhere.’ The boy then takes the creature home, but his parents are indifferent, and simply demand that he return it to the beach. Feeling sorry for the ‘Lost Thing’, the boy decides to hide it in a backyard shed until he can
figure out what to do next.

After noticing a government advertisement on late-night TV, the boy leads his companion to the ‘Federal Department of Odds and Ends’, an institution that claims to deal effectively with ‘things that just don’t belong’. It’s a bleak, windowless edifice that seems to contain little more than a receptionist and a large a filing cabinet. The boy is ordered to fill in a huge stack of forms.

From the quiet darkness, a less-than-human looking janitor appears, urging him to leave the departmental building. He presents the boy with a business card featuring a white arrow, and then disappears into the shadows. Together, the boy and the Lost Thing search for this cryptic symbol; they find it scattered throughout the city, forming a trail that leads to a forgotten back alley, and a
tiny key protruding from an otherwise featureless wall.

With a turn of the key, the wall slides open, revealing a vast landscape of bizarre objects and creatures engaged in a variety of whimsical of activities: playing games, telling stories, drawing pictures, making music and flying kites. In stark contrast to the drab, ordered tones of the city, this is a world of kaleidoscopic colour and chaos. The Lost Thing is keen to enter his new home, though not before saying goodbye to the boy with an unusual gesture of appreciation. The boy stays behind, the door closes and darkness returns.

In a brief epilogue, the boy reflects on this memory, now that he is much older. Dressed as an office worker and catching an evening tram, he laments the fact that he doesn’t notice lost things anymore – even as we see a strange, luminous creature passing by from a tram window. He is ‘too busy doing other stuff’, and we are left with this thought as he recedes into an ocean of other
commuting office workers.

For fans of stop-motion animation, there is a puppet fabrication workshop with industry artist Dan Field at the Cummer from 12-2 pm on Saturday. Field was the lead character fabricator at L.A.’s Shadow Animation and worked on the Emmy Award-winning “Robot Chicken.” The workshop will discuss the various materials, construction, and functionality needed for a stop-motion production.

for more information about Dan, please visit: http://www.danfielddesign.com/

free to All Access pass holders

$15.00 for ticket

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We are excited to announce that “Idiots and Angels” is our opening night film!

“Idiots and Angels” is a dark comedy about a man’s battle for his soul.

Angel, a selfish and morally bankrupt man, wakes up one morning with wings on his back. He tries to hide them, but eventually everyone at Bart’s Bar, where he hangs out, discovers them and ridicules him about his bizarre appendages.

Angel visits a doctor to try to have the wings removed, and the doctor realizes that the wings could be his ticket to fame and fortune. But before the doctor can remove the wings, Angel escapes from his office in fear.

As Angel tries to adapt to the wings, he discovers that now that he can fly, he has greater opportunities to abuse others. However, the wings seem to have a will of their own, and they foil all of his greedy plans.

After Angel cuts off the wings with a chain saw, his life returns to normal – except, the next day, as he sits at the bar, Bart the bartender needs the wings to boost business at the bar. So, he fights with his beautiful blonde wife, knowing that the good wings will come to her rescue. Sure enough, the wings instantly grow back, and Angel takes the frightened blonde away to the clouds, where they fall in love.

Unfortunately, when they return to the bar, Bart is waiting with a gun and the doctor, and he shoots Angel in a jealous fit. The blonde is overcome with panic and leaves the bar, as the doctor surgically removes the wings and sews them onto Bart’s back.

Bart fights the will of the wings with manacles, and flies over all the other bars in town, dropping bombs to ensure that he has the only drinking establishment in town. Now, Bart’s bar is raking in the money, and Bart wants to get his lost wife back – as he forces his romantic and sexual attention on her, she fights back. The struggle becomes violent, and out of Bart’s stomach emerges a re-born Angel.

The two winged men fight a battle royale of good vs. evil as all the bar patrons look on. When all the burn-victim customers realize that Bart is the terrorist that destroyed all their favorite watering holes, they all gang up on him too, and evil Bart is incinerated in his own back room, where he stored all his weapons and explosives.

Finally, Angel and the blonde end up in bed, and the wings detach themselves and fly away, to rescue some other misguided soul.

For more info:

http://www.idiotsandangels.com/

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