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THE ILLUSION OF LIFE: ANIMATED SHORTS FROM THE
SAN DIEGO ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL The San Diego Asian Film Festival was the
first Asian American film festival to showcase animated films in a
program of their own thanks to programmer Sam Chen. SDAFF is
graciously sharing this year's animation program with us, and
what's more, we'll be presenting the Seattle premiere of Sam's own
animated film ETERNAL GAZE, a multiple-award winner and contender
for an Oscar nomination. *** SPECIAL
GUEST: SDAFF Programming Director Arnold Marquez will
attend the screening!
FILMS:
BERT by Moonsung Lee
Animation, USA 2002, 5 min.
A young vegetable searches for
family.
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CHICKEN SAVES WORLD by Daniel
Chong
Animation, USA 2003, 2 min. Mission Control pins Earth's
hopes on
a chicken to battle attacking aliens.
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25 WAYS TO DIE by David Chai
Animation, USA 2003, 8 min.
A crazed collection of catastrophic casualties!
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ON THE ROAD FOR CHRISTMAS
by Daniel M. Kanemoto
Animation, USA 2002, 5 min.
On Christmas Eve, a lonely snowman aims
his eighteen-wheeler big-rig towards the
North Pole and puts the pedal to the metal.
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THE SNOWMAN by Lane Nakamura
Animation, USA 2002, 5 min.
Really stupid aliens abduct and interrogate
a snowman.
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THE LEGEND OF ARI DEE BEEYUTEN
by Lei Yang
Animation, USA 2003, 3 min.
The safety of the entire earth is dependent
upon - a monkey.
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DEMITRI'S VIOLIN by Niki Yang
Animation, USA 2002, 7 min.
A sad butcher dreams of playing the violin
instead of butchering chickens.
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THE GRAND MASTER by Marc Gomez
Animation, USA 2002, 5 min.
An epic battle for life...and ping pong.
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HEARTBEAT by Jennifer Yu
Animation, USA 2002, 4 min.
A woman is disillusioned when she witnesses
atrocities performed by Red Guards at the
height of the Cultural Revolution.
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THE STARLIGHT CABIN by Yong-jin
Kim
Animation, USA 2002, 13 min.
A toy robot, discarded in an old cabin, reflects
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ODE TO SUMMER by Ron Hui
Animation, USA 2003, 3 min.
Computer graphics technology brings the art
of Chinese ink brush painting to life.
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ETERNAL GAZE by Sam Chen
Northwest premiere
Animation, USA 2003, 16 min.
Inspired by the life and torment of celebrated artist Alberto
Giacometti. A poignant story about an artist, his art, and
reciprocated love.
* Best Animation, SIGGRAPH 2003, Palm Springs International
Festival of Short Films, Atlanta Film Festival, USA Film
Festival, Worldfest Houston
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Sam Chen began his career as
a computer graphics specialist at Silicon Graphics where he
helped pioneer 3-D Web content creation. He has since moved on
to independent filmmaking in both live-action and animation. Sam
also serves as the Animation & Artistic Programmer at the San
Diego Asian Film Festival. |
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