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The Savannah International Animation Festival 2010 is proud to present the following outstanding and magical lineup of animation from around the world.


"Pause Replay"
Pause Replay Director: Chan-Chia Chang
Computer Animation
USA
6 minutes

It's a love story between a camera and a camcorder.
I use the characteristics of these two digital machines to simulate the relationship of lovers.
It's about watching, memory, love and death.

"La Vie De La Mort"
Director: Brandyn Bold
Student Traditional Animation
USA
2.5 minutes

The Grim Reaper is just like every one of us. He hates his jobs, loves fatty foods, and just wants to love and be loved. His eternal quest for love has consistently ended in heart ache. Upon saving one girls life with no thank you kiss, he’s decided that he has had enough. After some soul searching (he may have borrowed some of those souls), he decides that true happiness comes from within, so he changes his life to live it the way he wants to.

"DEUX REGARDS"
DEUX REGARDS Director: Kangmin Kim
Experimental Animation
South Korea / USA
3 minutes

At the interstice between materiality and immateriality,
Direct work on the filmstrip is digitally rendered, creating tension between surface and depth.

"Professor Pebbles"
Professor Pebbles Director: Seymor Davison
Stop Motion Animation
Australia
13 minutes

Professor Pebbles is 500 years old today. Over the years he hasn’t really proven to be the most successful devil. In fact most of those who know him – his students, colleagues and even his father – think that he’s a failure and should give up ever amounting to anything.

"Lizard"
Lizard Director: John Skibinski
Traditional Animation   
Australia  
3 minutes

An over-confident frill necked lizard leaps repeatedly in the air catching insects before his frill opens like a parachute and he drifts in the wind. He whips his tail around a branch where it knots and he finds himself trying to get free without disturbing a nearby sleeping tawny frogmouth owl.

"Death Merchant"
Death Merchant Director: Peter Wasielewski
Student Computer Animation
USA  
2 minutes

A wandering merchant, whose inventory is centered around death, roams the desert fruitlessly in search of customers.  In this barren wasteland he stumbles across a rare oasis, inhabited by an innocuous young girl whose only possession is a voodoo doll.  Seeing the doll, the Merchant goes at it full force pitching every weapon and tool in hopes of trading for the doll.  Backfiring upon the would-be-seller, the young girl gets the last laugh in comedic encounter.

"Space"
Director: Jordan Rempel
Visual Effects
USA
2 minutes

After 40,000 years of traveling through the cosmos, the Voyager I probe finally reaches its destination…

"Galaxy Gulp"
Galaxy Gulp Director: Ross Scott   
Gaming Animation   
USA  
7 minutes

'Galaxy Gulp' is a comedy about a gas station in the middle of outer space and the strange characters who show up there. It is a short machinima film made to illustrate different concepts and techniques for making movies with the Source video game engine. Many 3D and video game techniques were used in the creation of 'Galaxy Gulp', resulting in a film both bizarre and entertaining.

"Duck Heart Teslacoil"
Duck Heart Teslacoil Director: Tyler Kupferer   
Student Traditional Animation   
USA   
6 minutes

A young duck learns how to deal with a bus stop menace through the use of high voltage weaponry.

"Lifeline"
Lifeline Director: Andres Salaff   
Student Traditional Animation   
USA   
6 minutes

A brilliant scientist travels through various dimensions and realms searching for his lost love.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 05 January 2010 09:31