Sundance 2015: Animated Shorts

The Sundance Film Festival has announced the film and installation selections for their upcoming edition, which will take place in Park City, Utah between January 22 and February 1, 2015. Among the sixty short film selections there are 13 animated projects. These 13 animated projects include:
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1. Bath House / Sweden (Director: Niki Lindroth von Bahr, Screenwriter: Jerker Virdborg)
Six characters meet in a public bathhouse: the pedant bathhouse manager, a couple with a strange way of communicating and a gang with shady intentions. Something goes wrong.

2.Beach Flags / France ( Director and Screenwriter: Sarah Saidan)
Vida, a young Iranian lifeguard, is determined to be the one to participate in an international competition in Australia. However, when Sareh, who is as fast and talented as her, joins the team, Vida faces an unexpected situation.

3.The Horse Raised By Spheres / USA, Irleand ( Director and Screenwriter:David OReilly)
Horse ponders his loneliness

4.Mynarski Death Plummet / Canada (Director and screenwriter: Matthew Rankin)
A completely handmade historical micro-epic combining wartime aviation melodrama with classical and avant-garde animation techniques, Mynarski Death Plummet is a psychedelic photo-chemical war picture on the themes of self-sacrifice, immortality, and jellyfish.

5.OM Rider / U.S.A.(Director and screenwriter: Takeshi Murata)
In a vast desert bathed in neon hues, a misfit werewolf tears full speed ahead over forbidding terrain while his hoary counterpart awaits.

6.Palm Rot / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Ryan Gillis)
An old Florida fumigator discovers a mysterious crate in the Everglades that ruins his day.

7.Storm Hits Jacket / France (Director and screenwriter: Paul Cabon)
A storm reaches the shores of Brittany. Nature goes crazy, two young scientists get caught up in the chaos. Espionage, romantic tension and mysterious events clash with enthusiasm and randomness.)



8.The Sun Like a Big Dark Animal / U.S.A. (Directors: Christina Felisgrau, Ronnie Rivera, Screenwriters: Ronnie Rivera, Bernardo Britto)
A computer and a woman fall in love, only to be torn apart because of their inappropriate feelings for each other.

9.Symphony No. 42 / Hungary (Director and screenwriter: Réka Bucsi)
The film applies an unconventional narrative. It presents a subjective world through 47 scenes. Small events, interlaced by associations, express the irrational coherence of our surroundings. The surreal situations are based on the interactions of humans and nature.

10.Teeth / United Kingdom, U.S.A., Hungary (Directors and screenwriters: Daniel Gray, Tom Brown)
Things of worth are often neglected in favor of that which is more immediately gratifying. Unfortunately, things that are neglected are often lost forever. In teeth a misguided and intensely focused man’s life is chronicled through his oral obsessions.
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11.Tupilaq / Denmark (Director and screenwriter: Jakob Maqe)
The Tupilaq is both a symbol of the spirit of a forefather and a curse. This personal and moving short film revolves around the themes of cultural alienation, abuse and the contrast between mythological greenlandic nature and western urban culture.

12.Two Films About Loneliness / United Kingdom (Directors and screenwriters: William Bishop-Stephens, Christopher Eales)
A split screen separates the worlds of Jonathan Smallman, who is recording his online dating profile, and Philip Button, Internet chef and hamster, who is noisily recording his new cooking video.
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13.World of Tomorrow / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Don Hertzfeldt)
A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of the distant future.
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