Synopsis:
In a crumbling 1920s Mexican hospital, patients with bizarre afflictions are in constant need of medical attention, but the miserable doctor in charge prefers to drink. However, an encounter with the Saint of Holes will rearrange the doctor’s fate, sending him on a journey of altered perspective.
- Director:
- Suzan Pitt
- Year:
- 2006
- Country:
- United States
- Running time:
- 24 min.
- Technique:
- 2D Animation
- Production type:
- Professional
- Producer:
- Dominique Jonard
- Script writers:
- Suzan Pitt, Blue Kraning
- Sound designer:
- David Slusser
- Editor:
- Philip Harrison
- Distribution:
- Academy Film Archive
- Audience:
- Adults
- Festival selections:
- Animafest Zagreb – World Festival of Animated Film
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Visitation
2011 Adults 9 min
by Suzan Pitt
In an outer-world night, creatures that live beneath human consciousness emerge and take hold of the narrator, dissecting his spirit and dismembering his thoughts. He beholds a mythical eternity filled with shadowy industrial scenes and monochrome textures—a heavenly hell of unending life and death.
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Pinball
2013 Adults 7 min
by Suzan Pitt
Think of PINBALL as a spinning flying saucer which lands in your yard, performs, and then flies away to the sound of film flapping in a projector…The film visualizes George Antheil’s 1952 revision of “Ballet Mecanique” using trigger fast cutting, painted imagery and sound effects. It might be described as “visual music”. Let loose from narrative confines, PINBALL is an intense abstraction of animated paintings by Suzan Pitt.
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Barko
2009 10+ 7 min
by Allison Craig
Barko is a lonely and unloved dog that has established himself as the unwilling clown of a circus run by poodles. His seemingly random fear of hot dogs is rationalized by flashbacks conveying a former owner who occupies his time tormenting the poor pup with the processed snack. Yet, in the end, Barko suddenly finds himself in the arms of a caring boy who shows him that he can experience a little love after all.
- Comedy
- Tragicomedy
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Midtown Twist
2009 Adults 1 min
by Gary Leib
A cartoon history of the evolving urban landscape in Midtown Manhattan, its various uses and abuses, accompanied by a wild sax. Commission animation for the New York Times.
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Would You Be Impressed?
2009 Adults 3 min
by Jurjen Bosklopper
This is Streetlight Manifesto’s second music video, this time for “Would You Be Impressed?” from the record “Somewhere In The Between”.
- Music Videos
- Comedy
- Tragicomedy
- Action
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History of the Meatpacking District
2008 16+ 1 min
by Gary Leib
A cartoon history of the evolving urban landscape on the West Side of Manhattan, from colonial times to postmodern gentrification, all to a jazz beat. Commission animation for the New York Times.
- Comedy
- Experimental
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The Comic That Frenches Your Mind
2008 Adults 5 min
by Bruce Bickford
A drug-muddled mind tries to think back to its origins and is helped along the way by a mysterious lighthouse and childhood icons. Morphing beasts, junkies, and Davy Crockett tourists take the screen among other puzzling characters in this twisting pencil line animation.
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
- Comedy
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500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art
2007 16+ 3 min
by Philip Scott Johnson
This animation was created in April 2007 using a program called Abrosoft Fantamorph. The cost at the time was 30 US dollars. My thought at the time was rather than creating simple humorous morphs, that were common at the time, why not instead create an artistic film that loops multiple animations together and tells the story of art over time.
- Non-narrative
- Experimental
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Quimby the Mouse
2007 16+ 4 min
by Chris Ware, John Kuramoto
Based on Chris Ware’s comic, film shows misadventures in the domestic life of a mouse and a cat head.
- Drama
- Comedy
- Tragicomedy
- Experimental
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Teat Beat of Sex ep. 1-3
2007 Adults 4 min
by Signe Baumane
It is about sex from a woman’s point of view. Explicit and educational.
- Comedy
- Experimental
- Abstract
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City of Rott
2006 Adults 50 min
by Frank Sudol
Desperately losing his mind while searching for a new pair of shoes, an old man and his trusty Walker wander the City of Rott, saturated with thousands of rotting zombies, driven to feed the blood-hungry worms residing in their skulls.
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Madvillain – All Caps
2003 16+ 2 min
by James Reitano
Music video for duo Madvlllain.
- Music Videos
- Comedy
- Adventure
- Action
- Crimi