Trophy Life references silent screen performing comedians and action/ performance art. This piece plays the physicality of performance against an editor's attraction to abstraction.
Les Nanas
D. Danielle Morgan
2010/USA/Canada/4min
A day in the life of lives of three doll-like women.
Lord Cockworthy
D. Clark Nikolai
2010/Canada/9min
English
Three Edwardian era men go on a picnic in the country unaware of a frisky satyr loose in the forest.
Madame Perrault’s Bluebeard
D. A.J Bond
2010 / Canada / 6min
No Dialogue
A dark re-telling of the classic fairytale “Bluebeard” by Charles Perrault, in which Perrault’s young wife reads herself into his dark allegory on marital mistrust.
Broken Hart
D. Michael Allen Angel
2010 / USA / 25min
A melancholy Everyman wakes up one morning and discovers it’s Valentine’s Day. On this lonely day, he begrudgingly engages in everyone else’s happiness but is it in the cards for Love to flower and happiness to engage him?
“Shimmers with rhinestones, confetti, and silliness…its heartbeat is steady and strong.”-The SF Bay Guardian
The Glitter Emergency
D. Paul Festa
2010 / USA / 20min
CANADIAN PREMIERE! This award-winning silent-film drag ballet comedy features director Paul Festa as a Tchaikovsky -violin-playing demon and the sad story of a peg-leg ballerina.