The Animation Show
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The Animation Show is a semi-annual touring festival of animated shorts that kicked off in fall 2003, created and programmed by award-winning animators Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt. The second year of the Animation Show toured throughout 2005. The third season of the Animation Show is scheduled to open across the country in January 2007.
[edit] History
The first year's tour visited over 200 North American theaters with occasional appearances from the producers (Mike and Don) and Q&A's with many of the award-winning filmmakers involved. The films included "everything from forgotten classics to the very latest in computer animation". The tour ended with a DVD release, entitled The Animation Show, Volume One. (It should be noted that the DVD collection does not include all of the same shorts included in the theatrical version, with those unavailable due to copyright issues replaced with others.)
[edit] Featured shorts
Listing from the "Volume One" DVD release, including different entries than did the theatrical run.
- "Aria" by Pjotr Sapegin
- "Bathtime in Clerkenwell" by Alex Budovsky
- "Billy's Balloon" by Don Hertzfeldt
- "Brother" by Adam Elliot
- "Katedra" (The Cathedral) by Tomek Baginski
- "Cousin" by Adam Elliot
- "Das Rad" (The Rocks) by Chris Stenner, Arvid Uibel, and Heidi Wittlinger
- "Fifty Percent Gray" by Ruairi Robinson
- "La Course A L'Abime" by Georges Schwizgebel
- "Moving Illustrations of Machines" by Jeremy Solterbeck
- "Atama Yama" (Mt. Head) by Koji Yamamura
- "Parking" by Bill Plympton
- "Early Pencil Tests and Other Experiments" by Mike Judge
- "The Adventures of Ricardo" by Corky Quakenbush
- "Trilogy" by Don Hertzfeldt
- "Uncle" by Adam Elliot
(Academy Award-nominated shorts in bold.)
