This selection of shorts from around the world is comprised of filmmaking styles from documentary to animation, and in topics both serious and most emphatically not. . .

Utopia, Part 3: The World’s Largest Shopping Mall
USA 2009 Digital Projection 13 Minutes In English
Directors, Print Courtesy: Sam Green, Carrie Lozano
Print Courtesy: Sam Green, Carrie Lozano
From two of the makers of Oscar nominee The Weather Underground and Clear Glasses (both screening in this year’s MIFF) comes a jaw-dropping look at a desolate, incomprehensibly huge new shopping mall in China.

The Cave: An Adaptation of Plato’s Allegory in Clay
USA 2008 Digital Projection 4 Minutes In English
Director, Print Courtesy: Michael Ramsey
A quirky adaptation of Plato's Allegory of the Cave, animated in clay and photographed in over 4,000 images.

KRANTZ
USA 2009 Digital Projection 19 Minutes In English
Director, Screenplay, Print Courtesy: Christopher Cantwell
In this deadpan funny, tonally perfect, black-and-white comedy, a young politician born to the governorship decides to annihilate his family when he fails in his political bid.

Clam Pie
USA 2009 Digital Projection 5 Minutes In English
Directors, Print Courtesy: Dan Boylan, Guy Taylor
The film amusingly answers the question: Can the meaning of life be found in a food choice?

A Drop in the Bucket
USA 2007/ Digital Projection/ 24 Min./ In English and Cambodian with English subtitles
Director, Print Courtesy: Lauren Shaw
MIFF veteran Lauren Shaw (Maine Women Living Off the Land) brings us this timely, lyrical, hopeful tale about people reaching across international boundaries to improve the water quality in rural Cambodia.

Motion Portrait
USA 2006 Digital Projection 4 Minutes In English
Director, Print Courtesy: John Yost
A continuity of motion and subject guides this DIY filmmaking piece.

Moth and the Firefly
USA 2009 Digital Projection 5 Minutes In English
Directors, Print Courtesy: Daniel Stedman, Aron Epstein
A little moth loses its lamplight in a citywide blackout and journeys into the dark city in search of new light in this true charmer.

Pixel Hunter

The Body
Vincent Leonetti
2009 Stop Action Animation 1:35
Simultaneously humorous and disturbing, this stop animation uses two women's bodies as both canvas and subject.

Baby
Stephanie Small
2009 Digital Video 2:29
A disturbing look at a young woman's inner conflict over her possible pregnancy.

Peanut Butter and Death Jelly
Joanna Wilbur (Music by Elliot Lyons)
2009 Digital Video and Animation 1:32
Using music inspired by video games by Elliot Lyons, this animation uses the visual language of the computer age to interpret the aural composition.

Mundane Emily Baer
2009 Digital Video 5:07
An uneasy and beautiful montage of the everyday.

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