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October 10, 2011 / / Movies

A film by Joaquin Baldwin an Annie Award nominee director and animator from Paraguay. A voodoo doll must find the courage to save his friends from being pinned to death.

October 10, 2011 / / Movies

The port city of Lhek is on the brink of collapse. A Pacific Rim state in a not too distant Asian future with no borders, no meaningful government and little law and order.

October 10, 2011 / / Movies

Bachelor film project 2011 from The Animation Workshop. As long as anyone can remember, the coming of The Undertaker has meant the coming of death. Until one day the grim promise fails and tension builds as the God fearing townsfolk of Backwater wait for someone to die.

October 4, 2011 / / Documentary

At a major juncture in his life, rob in the pagĂ© family began down a road less traveled to free himself from fear, government control, and reliance on public energy and food supply, and shares his journey that led him “off the grid”.

September 12, 2011 / / Movies

A collaboration between Salvador Dali and Walt Disney from 1946 that occurred when Dali had come to America to escape the Second World War and decided that the visual art of Hollywood was an area that he could make an artistic impression on. Because Hollywood is such an artistically conservative place, it was always going to be a difficult fit, but this surrealistically, beautiful cartoon successfully illustrates that it could have been an artistically inspiring fit.

September 2, 2011 / / Movies

Somewhere between surrealist and steampunk, this film was made to accompany the song “Children” by Hauschka. The cinematography is excellent and the story is abstract but captivating.

August 24, 2011 / / Movies

Portal: No Escape. Director Dan Trachtenberg has re-envisioned a grittier take on Portal. Starring Danielle Rayne in the role of Chell, although, with her never speaking a word, that’s never explicitly stated. She’s kept prisoner in a room and eventually discovers the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device (the proper, fancy name for the Portal gun) and uses it to escape, only to realize she’s in a test chamber. The fan-favorite Companion Cube doesn’t make it an appearance, nor does GLaDOS or any cake, though you do get to see a few Aperture Science Weighted Storage Cubes.

August 19, 2011 / / Documentary

The AMERICAN DREAM is a 30 minute animated film that shows you how you’ve been scammed by the most basic elements of our government system. All of us Americans strive for the American Dream, and this film shows you why your dream is getting farther and farther away. Do you know how your money is created? Or how banking works? Why did housing prices skyrocket and then plunge? Do you really know what the Federal Reserve System is and how it affects you every single day?

August 12, 2011 / / Movies

First Contact is a CGI-Live action integration short film from the second year of the Advanced 3D Productions programme. In it, Planet Earth is being visited by aliens, but this isn’t the intelligent life you might be expecting

August 11, 2011 / / Documentary

Nikola Tesla’s contributions to science and technology include the invention of radio, television, radio-astronomy, remote control and robotics, radar, medical x-ray and the wireless transmission of electricity. Many of Nikola Tesla’s inventions were and in some cases still are considered too revolutionary by government agencies and the power brokers of the time and are discussed in detail in this documentary.