New Zealand International Film Festivals 2003

The sound of a soaring violin emanating from a neighbour's apartment turns one man's world upside down as he crashes and glides through a new life, which, it seems, he is condemned to spend living on the ceiling.

Tim and Tom persevere and successfully connect despite the interference of their higher power.

Ben, our main character, wakes up in an unusual hospital after seemingly landing on an asphalt road due to a car collision. He later wakes up to the sound of dog barking and decides to explore the hospital. After he studies the hospital, noticing all the details from the plain white hallways from the surgical tools spread about the rooms, he realizes this isn't a normal hospital. He then hears footsteps and goes into the nearest room where he finds an experimental patient. The patient, lying on a bed moaning, comes to life in a horrific manner and leaves our main character, Ben, running for his life through the hospital while being chased by surgeons along the way. Ben realizes that the only chance of survival is leaving the Hospital with haste. Run Ben, Run.

A sad rakugo of a stingy old man experiencing the unforeseen consequences of eating a few cherries whole, without throwing the pits away.

A dog has a cat inside him. The two fight to get on, with one's desires always getting in the way of the other's. However the conflict cannot go on forever and the two learn the hard way to find common ground and work out something for themselves.

ARIA. Inspired by Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, this exquisite stop-motion film by Canadian director Pjotr Sapegin relates the eternal and heartbreaking tale of unrequited love.

A janitor at an alien nightclub gets his wish to be a singer.

Four grown wolves and a little one chase a sheep through the night. Little Wolf stops, captivated by the moon. He catches hold of it, and then the moon rises, with Little Wolf hanging on. The other wolves see him hanging there and try to rescue him, but their attempts are confounded by the playful sheep. As day breaks, the moon sets and Little Wolf comes close enough to earth to jump to terra firma. A celebration ensues.

Sludger the aardvark tries to make it big as a drummer in the big city.

The classic Ray Harryhausen tale that still proves "slow and steady" wins the race.

An experimental short film from Robert Breer utilizing various colors and light.

Abstract figures rapidly shape-shift until finally settling into the form of a man and his dog, but only for a moment.

Rob Breer blazing the trail.

An experimental short film from Robert Breer combining various shapes and colors.

An animated short of passengers on a train with Mt. Fuji visible from the window.

An animated short film created by the artist Robert Breer.

An experimental film in which a photograph of an airplane turns into a wire diagram, then into an animated plane in flight, and then it explodes into words.