Maryland Film Festival

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Shorts Program: Animated Shorts
Running Time:	77 minutes

Screenings:

May 8,	9:00 PM	Charles Theater 4	\| Buy Tickets
May 9,	4:00 PM	Charles Theater 3	>> Buy Tickets

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Jackhammer (Phil Davis, 3 mins.)
A music video for The Spinto Band from Baltimore’s Phil Davis.

Junko's Shamisen (Sol Friedman, 10 mins.)
Set in the rural backwoods of feudal Japan, a young peasant girl named Junko, returns home to discover her blind grandfather brutally murdered. Filled with despair, Junko, accompanied by a mystical fox spirit, abandons her old life and sets off for the village in search of better fortune. While begging, young Junko inadvertently encounters the evil samurai lord responsible for killing her grandfather and with the influence of the fox spirit, avenges her grandfather through an act of gruesome poetic justice.

Ledo & Ix Go To Town (Emily Carmichael, 7 mins.)
Ledo and Ix are two adventurers in an old-school fantasy video game. In this installment, they explore the most terrifying landscape of all--other characters.

Lunch (Miranda Pfeiffer, 2 mins.)
Two people encounter an injured bird. They are faced with a moral dilemma – help the bird or go to lunch?

Mu-emptiness- (Ria Ama, 15 mins.)
A painted Phoenix wills herself into the world where she encounters love, loss, longing and eventual enlightenment.

Pigeon Impossible (Lucas Martell, 7 mins.)
Pigeon: Impossible is the tale of Walter, a rookie secret agent faced with a problem seldom covered in basic training: what to do when a curious pigeon gets trapped inside your multi-million dollar, government-issued nuclear briefcase.

Reach (Luke Randall, 4 mins.)
A tiny robot is given the gift of life with only one limitation: the length of his power cable.

Seed (Ben Richardson and Daniel Bird, 11 mins.)
An egg and an apple build competing broadcast towers that vie for the attention of a transistor radio. Animal evolution, competition, reproduction, and the struggle to survive follow.

The Thing in the Distance (Elliot Cowan, 6 mins.)
Boxhead and Roundhead are a pair of innocents in a land of monsters, hostile natives and appalling weather. This 8th stressful adventure is a tale of obsession and paranoia.

Twist of Fate (Karen Aqua, 9 mins.)
This experimental animated film, created on 35mm, explores the transformative experience of being diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, expressionistically capturing impression of such an experience: upheaval, uncertainty, a sense of physical intrusion, and loss of control. Exploring this emotional and physical landscape, the film visualizes an internal world inside the body, imagined at a cellular level.