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Interregnum
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Based on the extraordinary career of René Carmille, history’s first known computer hacker. The government of Nazi-occupied France launched a ghastly and unprecedented experiment in information science: much of the Vichy bureaucracy, including the operation of the death camps, was automated with punch-card computers. However, the Nazis didn’t understand the technology’s potential vulnerabilities…
format: HD video
software: Flash, After Effects, Final Cut, Photoshop, Audition
Toronto, 2010.
The Orange
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Suddenly, a humble citrus fruit is granted absolute power over the universe. From a story by Benjamin Rosenbaum.
format: HD video
software: Flash, AfterEffects, Final Cut, Audition
Toronto, 2009.Screened at SXSW 2010. (jury prize, Best Animated Short)
The Foxhole Manifesto
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This is an adaptation of a poem by Jeffrey McDaniel, who has some ideas for a few appropriately modern gods.
format: HD video
software: Flash, AfterEffects, Final Cut, Audition
The Hague, 2007.Screened at Rotterdam Film Festival 2009.
I Wanna Be Famous
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Here’s a song by Jessica Delfino. She’s discovered a guaranteed shortcut to everlasting fame–watch and learn!
format: HD video
software: Flash, AfterEffects, Final Cut, Audacity
San Francisco, 2006.
A Good Joke
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A priest challenges a rabbi to a debate on the spiritual condition of Jewish people. But neither speaks the other’s language, and…well, I won’t spoil the punch line.
format: HD video
software: Flash, AfterEffects, Final Cut, Audition
San Francisco, 2005.Screened at Ottawa Animation Festival 2006.
The Option of War
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In this adaptation of an early Kafka story, a soldier is taken prisoner in the night by a pack of jackals. Offering a pair of scissors, they demand that he use the makeshift weapon to kill his sleeping friends…
format: HD video
software: Flash, AfterEffects, Painter, Final Cut, Audition
Montreal, 2005.Screened at Ottawa Animation Festival 2005.
