Bhagavanta Kai Kotta

With harpsichord music in the background, a dandy, seated at a table, plucks a quill pen from a ceiling full of them above him, dips it in ink, thinks, then draws a straight line down the page in front of him, out of which sprout six more quill pens, each held by a hand. The calligrapher moves all the hands and pens in unison, drawing an elaborate feathered wing, which comes to live, peeling off the page, and, now a quill pen, slips in to his hand. He tucks it behind his left ear.

A display at the strange and wonderful artifacts in a collection of medical curiosities.

Two men seek to negotiate an agreement of international significance.

White Night

Locomotion

"I was visiting Jerome Hill. Jerome loved France, especially Provence. He spent all his summers in Cassis. My window overlooked the sea. I sat in my little room, reading or writing, and looked at the sea. I decided to place my Bolex exactly at the angle of light as what Signac saw from his studio which was just behind where I was staying, and film the view from morning till after sunset, frame by frame. One day of the Cassis port filmed in one shot." -JM

Bryan Adams is one of world's most enduringly popular singer/songwriters. But he is most at home in his Vancouver studio, surrounded by his collection of vintage microphones and guitars. Adams calls it "a very analog space in a very digital world." In this short documentary, we witness an intimate rendition of his song "One World, One Flame" and hear him speak of his audience-centered approach to performance: "I want it to be fun, I want it to be real."

This short film documents the daily life of the goings-on on Orchard Street, a commercial street in the Lower East Side New York City.

A parody of sci-fi films, written and acted entirely drunk.

The questionably unstable Darryl Donaldson goes on a quest to prove why he's Donnie Darko's #1 fan. While creating the production diaries for the film Donnie Darko, the crew also secretly produced this short satirical film that poked fun at the film, its fans, and the people behind it.

'Amy, is narrated by a model (Liisa Repo-Martell) who’s painfully uncomfortable with her own body and “old woman’s” face. Astonishing closing image is a tightly composed telephoto shot on the start of a marathon race among young schoolgirls, dashing toward and then across the screen in ultra-slo-mo, and accompanied by a girls’ chorus hauntingly singing Brian Wilson’s God Only Knows. Widely eclectic lensing and looks in various media and in color and black-and-white flow nicely from one section to the next, aided by gifted editor Mark Karbusicky.' ~ Robert Koehler, Variety - Part 7 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).

New Moon

“When he shot Une seconde (4 min., 20 sec.), a video animation without computer graphics, Richard Angers tried to adapt Norman McLaren’s animation techniques to video shooting and editing. A long-term solitary task, in which images are moved by hand, centimetre by centimetre, in which one plays with the number of images per second, and in which the ± pure quest for effects is more important than the message”. BLANCHARD, Louise. “Les vidéastes sont au ‘rendez-vous’”, Le Journal de Montréal, Montreal (9 February 1992), p. 38.

The true story of Sophia, a young woman dealing with a rare and very dangerous condition.

On the streets of Los Angeles there is a silent war, a terror lurking. Like a menacing great white shark a rogue parking enforcement officer swims in and out of traffic attacking and looking for it's next prey. Brody is her latest target and officer Boca shows no mercy. Along with Quint and Hooper the three friends determine they must save themselves and the people of Los Angeles from this evil monster and together they set out to take her down. This is a comedy action short inspired by real events and the directors love for Steven Spielberg's classic film JAWS. Written by Josh Moulton

For Your Eyes

A backpacker on the run from home writes a letter home, but there may be more to him than appears.

The film centers on an unusual photograph dating back to the 1930s. An investigation of its particulars reveals a tapestry of secrets hidden in the details, and a tale of kidnapping and murder captured in a haunting moment.

It's Christmas time in Tallahassee, and the employees of the Blue Skies Nuclear Power plant are gearing up for the best holiday party ever. However, after a reactor meltdown, and total evacuation, they'll soon find out that the woods this year aren't exactly filled with Holiday Cheer.

First film produced by Laugh-O-Gram Studio, as part of demo reel. This film is not really animated, it just consists of Walt drawing a single frame. Part of the Newman Laugh-O-Grams Series.