SXSW Short Films Announced

ANIMATED SHORTS

A Painful Glimpse into my Writing Process (In Less than 60 Seconds)
Dir: Chel White
A darkly satirical tour de force about the writing process.

Chronicles of A Professional Eulogist
Dir: Sarah Jane Lapp
An exploration on the role of those who minister to the soul and manage the inflections of individual and communal sentimentality within the process of creating and sustaining social memory.

Filmstrip
Dir: Peggy Nelson
An educational filmstrip for young adults about the perils of modern relationships.

First Flight
Dir: Cameron Hood & Kyle Jeffereson
A man misses his bus to work, but finds a better reason to get out of his nest in the morning.

George Washington
Dir: Brad Neely
George Washington loves children. But, not the British children.

The Heart Collector
Dir: Michael Fallik
A man with no heart rips out the hearts of lovers in order to make himself one of his own.

I Am (Not) van Gogh
Dir: David Russo
A misfit artist proposes a half-baked film production to a confused arts festival panel.

Mural
Dir: Jose Luis Osorio
This film is about a painter that is haunted by his own mind which is represented by his painting.

Octave
Dir: Emily Hubley
Animated film miniatures play with musical tones and shifting symbolic images to create eight moments when things come together in mysterious cohesion.

Pilgrims_Progress
Dir: James Dingle
When MS-DOS is loaded, insert the PILGRIMS_PROGRESS program disk into the drive, label facing up and the oval cutout pointed toward the back of the system. Follow the instructions.

Playtime
Dir: Arno Salters
It's playtime, and some vintage toys animate to an infectious tune.

Stalk
Dir: Leigh Hodgkinson
A dark fairy tale, where lonely Bunny has an unusual admirer whose desperate attempts to get attention intrigues her.

Tall Tales & Other Big Lies
Dir: Dano Johnson
Texas music legend Ray Wylie Hubbard recounts one concert in the 1970s, where one man discovered that alcohol and German shepherds wearing bandanas do not mix.

Vaudeville
Dir: Chansoo Kim
A personal interpretation of the atmosphere of 1930ís Korea. Sentimental pop songs and crude comedy shows were popular, but sadness was omnipresent.

Who I Am and What I Want
Dir: Chris Shepherd & David Shrigley
This film is about who I am and what I want. It's NOT about who YOU are and what YOU want.

The Wraith of Cobble Hill
Dir: Adam Parrish King
Planning his holiday departure, Mr. H asks teen-age Felix if he would take care of the pet dog, kept in Mr. Hís store to scare away rats. When Felix accepts, it's up to him to either reciprocate the benevolence Mr. H has always shown him, or perpetuate the cycle of neglect he's been handed down as a family legacy.

The Zit
Dir: Mike Blum
A small tale about a giant pimple.

DOCUMENTARY SHORTS

24 Hours in L.A.
Dir: Cath Le Couteur
A London photographer visits LA to photograph a hip-hop gig. While there he stumbles into girl gangs, guns and gets lost in gangland driving a Cadillac.

The Aluminum Fowl
Dir: James Clauer
An unusual portrait of four brothers living on a chicken farm in rural Louisiana.

Bump, Tick, Scratch
Dir: Micah Perta & Rob Grobengieser
A look at John Pough, drummer from famed New York underground dance/punk band !!!, and his musical side project.

Coney Island, 1945
Dir: Jeremiah Zagar
Documentary becomes dream as a man reminisces on his youth in Coney Island.

Foot Cred
Dir: Cath Le Couteur & Yunus Akesi
Transforming the images of British urban style photographer Normski and the story of his New York epiphany into a graphic, personal portrait of the city, detailing his initiation into a new B-boy culture and his emerging fixation with trainers.

Gray Days
Dir: Katherine Leggett
A graying American population and a record number of people incarcerated present an alarming trend: a dramatic increase of elderly in our state prisons.

Junior! The Wendy's Guy
Dir: Stephen Stephanian
The story of a man who has attained cult status on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin through his speedy and unorthodox handling of the register at a nearby Wendy's.

MAN UP
Dir: Arturo Cabanas
Parents want nothing but the best for their children. This is about a different relationship between a father and son.

Playing the News
Dir: Jigar Mehta & Jeff Plunkett
The first video game company ever to consider itself a news organization.

Prom Date
Dir: Poull Brien. When it comes to senior prom, some girls bring their friends, others their boyfriends Courtney, however, enlists a party promoter to find her a date over the Internet.

The Tuesday Nighter
Dir: Mike Woolf
Every Tuesday night - for the past 25 years - the best cyclists in Austin have been competing in a pirate bike race. And, it's no surprise when Lance Armstrong decides to show up.

Viva Morrissey!
Dir: Jessica Hundley & Jonathan Miertschin
A candid look into the unique world of fans obsessed with pop/rock singer Morrissey.

NARRATIVE SHORTS

A Persistent Vision
Dir: Ian Kibbey
In an analogy to the history and mechanics of film and animation two young boys make a movie for all to enjoy.

A Short Film
Dir: Kelsey Kleiman
Marital secrets emerge as Gerald and Kate go to bed.

Apple's Cherry
Dir: Jesse Scolaro
Apple's girlfriends want to know if she lost her virginity to Andre, but she's not talking.

Calm
Dir: Jeff Smith
Young Shauna and her little brother Grub embark on a dream-like odyssey through their devastated neighborhood amid the surreal calm that comes in the eye of a hurricane.

cHeap Date
Dir: Mike Bell
Intimate moments are difficult when you have roomates. This puppet show is not for children.

The Couch
Dir: Sean Donnelly
One day, a patient decided she had a crush on her therapist. Her therapist decided he should tell her that he had been making sexual animations involving her likeness.

Derek & Simon: A Bee and a Cigarette
Dir: Bob Odenkirk
Just when Derek and Simon think a double date is about to become a long night of fun, someone puts a bee under a cigarette.

Derek & Simon: The Pity Card
Dir: Bob Odenkirk
Sometimes a Holocaust museum is the wrong place to take a first date especially if they've never heard of the Holocaust.

First Date
Dir: Gary Huggins
A volatile ex-con will stop at nothing to keep a date with the underage boy he met online.

Follow Me
Dir: Rebecca Haimowitz
Emily is tired of being disappointed in her relationships. She's ready to give up when she discovers a boy named Grover who has been following her roommate Melissa.

Fourteen
Dir: Nicole Barnette
Fourteen year old, Hannah, awakes to a momentous day of gifts and attention. She soon realizes that this day of great celebration will turn out to have significant consequences on her future.

Heavy Soul
Dir: Oren Shai
In a world of teenage lust and twisted morals, itís hard to keep oneís innocence. With a simple roll of the dice, the child becomes a predatorÖ the saint, a sinner.

Hiro
Dir: Matthew Swanson
After a chance encounter with a young girl, a shy Japanese insect collector finds himself thrust into a wild chase to recover a stolen beetle.

K-7
Dir: Christopher Leone
An ordinary job interview becomes a battle for life or death when Vincent Kincaid rates a K-7 on his psychological profile. But what does ìK-7î mean?

Larrylandia
Dir: Karim Scarlata
In the Mission district of San Francisco lives Larry, a man consumed by his passion for a basketball game rooted in ancient ritual, unable to see the key to his salvation right in front of his face.

Letter
Dir: Kelcey Edwards
A psychological portrait of a filmmaker who receives a letter from the US government informing her that her husband has been killed at war.

Lighten Up
Dir: John Viener
Who knew light bulbs could be such a pain in the ass?

Longtime Listener
Dir: Maria Menounos
The story of a part-time electronics store clerk residing in the basement of his motherís house while living his life through the world of talk radio.

Miles From Home
Dir: Joel David Moore
Miles and Ginger partied all night and were late for work this morning. Things only get worse after they get the Taco Stand open.

Monster
Dir: Jennifer Kent
A young single mother is at breaking point over her son's obsession with an old monster doll. He believes the monster is real and battles with its presence relentlessly in every corner of the house.

Natalie at Five O'Clock
Dir:Sherry Mills
After school on a Friday afternoon fourteen-year-old Natalie does a half-ass job of the things she has to do so that she can get to what she really wants to do: dress up like a hottie and dance.

Nevel is the Devil
Dir: Peter Craig
A supervisor at a consumer product testing laboratory interrogates two suspects of a devilish prank.

Pretty Kitty
Dir: Gregory McDonald
After several unsuccessful attempts to get his cat to listen to him, a man snaps and decides to show him whose boss.

Redemptitude
Dir: David Zellner
A preacher ventures deep into the Australian Outback to save the soul of a man who has abandoned his faith.

Robot-ussin
Dir: Nikc Miller
A young man becomes delusional after drinking a bottle of Tussin. Now he must deal with a persistent robot whose only wish is to give him a can of chunk ham.

Room 314
Dir: Kyle Bogart
A professional faces the possibility of becoming a serial killer’s next victim.

Shortstop
Dir: Risa Machuca & Fanny Veliz
Two women find out they're not so different after all, when they discover they are both in love with the same man.

Sons of the Rodeo
Dir: Matheson Muir
A rite-of-passage story about a small-town Texas boy who gains independence from his domineering brother at a futuristic rodeo.

Vegan Candy
Dir: Mike Cahill
Some kids come of age in a hippie haunted house.

Zorlonn of the River
Dir: Mike Mitchell
A barbarian warrior battles a giant, blue mailbox/monster.

MUSIC VIDEOS

Beneath a Dreaming Moon
Dir: Random Touch

Bobby Birdman, I Will Come Again
Dir: Terri Timely

Citizens Here and Abroad, You Drive
Dir: Jason Koxvoid

Cons & Tricks
Dir: Toben Seymour

Don't Fuck with Love
Dir: Jim Starace & Rachel McIntosh

The Getty Address
Dir: James Sumner

Headlines
Dir: Toben Seymour

Honeycut, Tough Kid
Dir: Arno Salters

JCB Song
Dir: Laith Bahrani

Kaada, Thank you for giving me your valuable time
Dir: Robert Castilla

Lakrea Clark We Can Do It
Dir: Ryan Bust

Laura Veirs, Galaxies
Dir: Terri Timely

Mike Miller, I Don't Know
Dir: Jake Blunt

Nedelle, Our Little Selves
Dir: Chivas De Vinck

Pilotdrift, Bubblecraft
Dir: Geoff Marslett

Plastilina Mosh, Oxidados
Dir: Anne Paas

Ralfe Band, Women Of Japan
Dir: Nigel Coan & Ivana Zorn

Settlefish, It Was Bliss
Dir: J.J. Johnstone

Single Frame, Exact Copy of this in the Basement
Dir: Erik Horn & Gates Bradley

Sleater-Kinney, Jumpers
Dir: Matt McCormick

TP5, Clap Wit' It Clap Wit' It
Dir: Stephanie Johnes

Veda Hille, Queen of the May
Dir: Eun-Ha Paek

EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS

Deprivation II
Dir: Andrew Auten
The USF transmitter activation has gone well or poorly but he wonders what kind of God would let them do that to a man. And now his wife pretends not to know who he is. His watch is missing.

Dumb Angel
Dir: Deco Dawson
Inspired in part by the filmmaker's conversations with Gus Van Sant,this is an adrenaline-infused homage to improvisational filmmaking, while examining the odd relationship between fame, talent and television celebrity.

Endless
Dir: Wenhua Shi
A meditation upon the inevitable deterioration of certain traditional values that have been established (or destroyed) throughout civilization.

In Can Can Descent
Dir: Lindsay Beamish
Three girls dance-raid a pink palace, a see-through jet, a million blue arches. Ladies and men born in 1910 act out everything in between.

Life on a 7-Color Spectrum
Dir: Rachel Stuckey
A journey at 29 fps through the visual spectrum, as an homage to those who saw more, and met their demise because of it.

Marion
Dir: Ry Russo-Young
Three separate women play Marion in three scenes based upon Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO.

Phobia
Dir: Sarah Lipstate
16mm found footage film about the fear of pursuit and desire.

Pounds Per Square Inch
Dir: Heather Posner
Through optically printed titles and found footage of tornadoes and hurricanes a young woman's fantasies are explored in the graffiti covered bathroom of a punk rock club.

The Ratsnitch Angel
Dir: Michael Medaglia
The story of a little boy with an angel in his pocket. In order to view this, special eyewear is provided.

Sea Change
Dir: Joe King & Rosie Pedlow
Filmed on a caravan park at the end of the season, the filmmaker reveals a landscape dramatically transformed by light and time, and resonating with the transience of human presence.

spam letter + google image search = video entertainment
Dir: Andre Silva
Each word of a spam letter is matched with one of countless available online images that have been linked, in some way, to that word. The letter is further brought to virtual life through an online text to voice program.

Stadtplan
Dir: Reynold Reynolds
An experimental film about Berlin.

Train Tower
Dir: David Crompton & Andrew Herfst
The ultra modern train towers that link Vancouver's light rail system are thrust into a new visual context.