School of Film/Video
Showcase 2006
To view each film, click its accompanying image. Please note that streaming media is intended to be viewed over a high speed internet connection only.
Character Animation
| Disconnected by Eric Favela 2006 The 2006 Walter and Gracie Lantz Animation Prize. | |
| The Ending by Austin Madison 2006 Peers' Pick Award Winner. | |
| Giant's Kitchen by Jiwook Kim 2006 | |
| The Pet Shop by Lorelay Bove 2006 | |
| Plaza Hotel by Sam Marin 2006 | |
| Feb-18-05 by Javier Barboza 2006 | |
| Altitude Adjustment by Nicholas Butera 2006 | |
| Pinpoint by James Kim 2006 | |
| Dream by Izobel Carol 2006 | |
| "Jack" in the Box by Byoung Ho Kang 2006 | |
| Watambi by Joel Crawford 2006 | |
| The Fox and the Boy by Shiyoon Kim 2006 | |
| Honeymoon by Edward Juan 2006 | |
| Le Petit Heros by Dimitri Frazao 2006 | |
| Mr. Elephant by Diana Lafyatis 2006 | |
| Doo Wa Ditty by Jules Soto 2006 | |
| Fool's Gold by Devin Roth 2006 | |
| Asexuality by Josh Look 2006 | |
| Monsterminate by Minkyu Lee 2006 | |
| Doppelganger by Ki Peum Lee 2006 | |
| Scissors by Daron Nefcy 2006 | |
| Penguin by Ki Peum Lee 2006 | |
| Love Sick Lady by Christian Robinson 2006 | |
| Milo by Brigette Barrager 2006 | |
| Love Pills by Seo Jin Lee 2006 | |
| The Sunflower's Summer by Ta-Wei Chao 2006 | |
| Henry by Kim Slate 2006 | |
| Yer Mamma by Erik Fountain 2006 | |
| C'est La Vie by Ant Ward 2006 | |
| Curse of the Wereseal by Lissa Treiman 2006 | |
| I Love You Kitty by Bert Youn 2006 | |
| Bubblebeard by Devin Roth, Alex Hirsch, Sean Jimenez 2006 | |
| by Matt Nealon 2006 | |
| One Man's Trash by Jason Zurek 2006 | |
| Thirsty Iguana by Leonardo Matsuda 2006 | |
| Unicorn vs. Narwhal by Adrian Molina 2006 | |
| 2 in the AM PM by JG Quintel 2006 | |
| CuddleBee Hugs'n'Such by Adrian Molina and Alex Hirsch 2006 | |
| Story of Chauncey by Dave Quion 2006 | |
| Q and Peachy in "Reasons to Live"by Moro Rogers 2006 | |
| Icarus & the Tree Herder by Ian Worrel 2006 |
Experimental Animation
| Grater City by Miwa Matreyek 2006, 1 min. 40 sec. A girl walks through a Grater city. | |
| A War on 35mm by Young Jin Yoon 2006, 1 min. Scratch on 35mm for action scene study. | |
| Dinner Table by Song E Kim 2006, 2 min. 20 sec. A couple is having dinner on an ordinary day. The girl casually asks the boy how the food is. He answers. However, his manner of speaking takes her to her psychological world. | |
| Plerexia by Jeremy Schwartz 2006, 7 min. 35 sec. A woman starves herself to please her George Foreman Grill and begins eating office supplies in desperation. | |
| Lightbulb by Jian Lee 2006, 2 min. 6 sec. A film about people's relationships with lightbulbs. | |
| In Search of the Puppeteer by Chih-Ming Chang 2006, 5 min. A stop-motion puppet comes to life and runs away from its puppeteer. | |
| Strips of Illusion by Dae In Chung 2006, 1 min. 25 sec. | |
| Death, Destruction and The Weather Coming Up Next by Emery C. Martin 2006, 5 min. 14 sec. A satirical physical manifestation of the media's representation of war that has been dropped into a partly cloudy neghborhood near you. | |
| Lil' Big Hed by Jabari Hall-Smith 2006, 5 min. 30 sec. A science fiction drama in which a former ruler returns to destroy his subjects by destroying the planet. | |
| Digitopia by Miwa Matreyek 2006, 4 min. Science fiction future where machines are organic and organisms are machine. | |
| Without In Of by Brian Bloss 2006, 3 min. A series of explosions. | |
| It Snowed by Karen Knighton 2006, 4 min. 25 sec. Some people have wounds that are invisible. Only a rare few have the burden of seeing and understanding the distress. A sorowful offering is needed to help an unraveling friend. | |
| Pain't by Nancy Parczyk 2006, 1 min. 30 sec. Paint on film. | |
| Chloroplast by Pablo Calvillo 2006, 7 min. Chloroplast: an organelle found in plant cells that conducts the photosynthesis, the most indispensable biochecmical process to create oxygen, and, therefore, life. | |
| Hello, My Name is Joe by Dillon Markey 2006, 2 min. Even though he's made of wire, Joe works in a button factory. His wife, dog, family and pain-in-the-butt boss drive him crazy. | |
| A Revisionist History of Southern California by Dominic Bisignano 2006, 2 min. 25 sec. A history of Southern California. | |
| Bubble Bubble by Won Jeong (Leah) Chun 2006, 3 min. The film is a surreal journey through inner organisms. "The fish in a fish tank makes bubbles. A tree makes flower seeds out of the bubbles. The flower seeds wake up the doll..." - visual poem. | |
| Utopia by Hlynur Magnusson 2006, 39 sec. Like a parasite or virus, the giant urban sprawl creeps up and eats up the surrounding nature. | |
| Passing By by I-Huan Chen 2006, 1 min. This is a piece of film that has the combination of scratch on film, live action, rotoscope, drawn animation and experimental electronic sound. | |
| From the Memoirs of Dr. Booth by Debralee Shelby 2006, 4 min. 12 sec. An allegory about innocence and peril in 21st century phone booths. | |
| Port Authority Incident by Evelyn Lee 2006, 2 min. 40 sec. Somtimes I g. | |
| Thaumatrope by Lauren Fisher 2006, 1 min. Somtimes I g. |
Film Directing Program
| Zombie Love by Yfke van Berckelaer 2006, 2 min. | |
| Blood. Rape. War. Murder. by Darren Herczeg 2006, 1 min. 13 sec. | |
| The Orphans by Cy Kuckenbaker 2006, 23 min. | |
| Light is Heavy by Matthew Hysell 2006, 1 min. 10 sec. | |
| Glenda Herczeg by Darren Herczeg 2006, 3 min. 31 sec. | |
| Frank & His Friends by Ben Rodkin 2006, 9 min. | |
| Only Volunteers by Justin Lott 2006, 13 min. 30 sec. | |
| The Grande Finale by John Suits 2006, 52 sec. | |
| The Ballad of Rich and Henry by Taylor Greeson 2006, 8 min. 30 sec. | |
| Vengeance by Jason Decker 2006, 12 min. | |
| Question #171 by Karen Stegall 2006, 5 min. 9 sec. | |
| A Silent Monsoon by Pravesh Gurung 2006, 32 min. |
Program in Film and Video
| Practice by Cara King 2006, 9 min. Practice deals with dual conflicts. The story follows the struggle of a young sumo wrestler who is physically exhausted by a senior wrestler over the course of one practice. At thes ame time, a divergence in the structure becomes reflective of a personal transition from tourist to filmmaker. | |
| Everything Beautiful & Lofty by Jesse Hassinger 2006, 10 min. The meeting place between the jagged edge and the supple curve embody the violence and beauty inherent in humanity in this examination of life. | |
| Stories of a Promised Land by Alina Skrzeszewska 2006, 11 min. Part one of an essay film about various utopias. | |
| Buffalo by Thorbjorg Jonsdottir 2006, 1 min. 30 sec. | |
| Self Portrait 2 by Lin Qiu 2006, 3 min. Self portrait. | |
| Intermittent Delight by Akosua Adoma Owusu 2006, 5 min. An experimental short using documentary, found footage, and West African batik. | |
| Intracorp (Part One) by John Paul Sawan 2006, 5 min. An investigator of bodies suddenly finds himself trapped. | |
| The Tropic of Faxafloi by Apolonia Panagopoulos 2006, 12 min. A girl living at the edge of the desert finds a mysterious postcard from Iceland. Feeling out of place where she is, she begins to fixate on the idea of moving to Iceland. However, when she arrives, she discovers home is not there, either. | |
| Kabir Song by Anal Shah 2006, 5 min. Kabir Song is based on the life of 14th century Indian mystic and poet, Kabir, who was most famous for his songs scorning religious affiliation. His life and death is surrounded by legends, where it is still unclear whether he was a Muslim or a Hindu. The camera follows a similar mystic as he walks the streets of Varanasi, a northern Indian city, singing the songs of Kabir. | |
| Bolero by Marcel Wepper 2006, 12 min. This piece is about hysteria, the hypnotic power of commercialism and its persuasive nature. Every shot, minus the first few and last one, are reaction shots of the studio audience. They have not been rearranged or repeated and each one was included in the show's original broadcast. |
Printer-friendly version
