2003

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Shorts Program 1 - Mindbenders. The Mindbender programs always aim to twist those neurons between your ears with perplexing, unpredictable, yet entertaining films of just about any stripe. This 2003 edition hopes to torque that up a notch...with a cheater bar. Expect a variety of animation styles, bizarre stories, and a verbal harangue. These shorts swing from intense, abstract visuals matched with computer-generated dialogue to outright silliness during an earthquake.

Season:
2003
Director:
Jesse Rosensweet

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Shorts Program 1 - Mindbenders. The Mindbender programs always aim to twist those neurons between your ears with perplexing, unpredictable, yet entertaining films of just about any stripe. This 2003 edition hopes to torque that up a notch...with a cheater bar. Expect a variety of animation styles, bizarre stories, and a verbal harangue. These shorts swing from intense, abstract visuals matched with computer-generated dialogue to outright silliness during an earthquake.

Season:
2003
Director:
Michael Noonan

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Shorts Program 1 - Mindbenders. The Mindbender programs always aim to twist those neurons between your ears with perplexing, unpredictable, yet entertaining films of just about any stripe. This 2003 edition hopes to torque that up a notch...with a cheater bar. Expect a variety of animation styles, bizarre stories, and a verbal harangue. These shorts swing from intense, abstract visuals matched with computer-generated dialogue to outright silliness during an earthquake.

Season:
2003
Director:
Simon Ellis

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Shorts Program 1 - Mindbenders. The Mindbender programs always aim to twist those neurons between your ears with perplexing, unpredictable, yet entertaining films of just about any stripe. This 2003 edition hopes to torque that up a notch...with a cheater bar. Expect a variety of animation styles, bizarre stories, and a verbal harangue. These shorts swing from intense, abstract visuals matched with computer-generated dialogue to outright silliness during an earthquake.

Season:
2003
Director:
Paul Bush

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Shorts Program 1 - Mindbenders. The Mindbender programs always aim to twist those neurons between your ears with perplexing, unpredictable, yet entertaining films of just about any stripe. This 2003 edition hopes to torque that up a notch...with a cheater bar. Expect a variety of animation styles, bizarre stories, and a verbal harangue. These shorts swing from intense, abstract visuals matched with computer-generated dialogue to outright silliness during an earthquake.

Season:
2003
Director:
Matt Smith

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Shorts Program 1 - Mindbenders. The Mindbender programs always aim to twist those neurons between your ears with perplexing, unpredictable, yet entertaining films of just about any stripe. This 2003 edition hopes to torque that up a notch...with a cheater bar. Expect a variety of animation styles, bizarre stories, and a verbal harangue. These shorts swing from intense, abstract visuals matched with computer-generated dialogue to outright silliness during an earthquake.

Season:
2003
Director:
Eric Patrick

Running time: N/A

Shorts Program 1 - Mindbenders. The Mindbender programs always aim to twist those neurons between your ears with perplexing, unpredictable, yet entertaining films of just about any stripe. This 2003 edition hopes to torque that up a notch...with a cheater bar. Expect a variety of animation styles, bizarre stories, and a verbal harangue. These shorts swing from intense, abstract visuals matched with computer-generated dialogue to outright silliness during an earthquake.

Season:
2003
Director:
James Brett

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Winner of the 2002 Spanish Academy Awards (Goyas) for Best Adapted Screenplay and nominated for Best New Actress and Best New Director, Carlos Molinero powerfully examines passion, patriotism, and racial violence in his vivid and intelligent debut feature. Berta, a middle-aged nurse, lives alone with her late sister's three rebellious kids but continues to nurture hope of romance. More jaded and prone to heavy boozing, but equally open to a relationship, Eduardo is a detective who starts dating Berta after meeting her at the hospital.

Season:
2003
Director:
Carlos Molinero
Cinematography:
Gerardo Gormezano
Cast:
Marisa Paredes, Imanol Arias, Manuel Mor?n, Roger Casamajor, Alberto Ferreiro, Mar?a Isasi, Emilio Buale
Editor:
Renato Sanju?n, Jose Recuenco
Producer:
Lola Salvador Maldonado
Language:
Spanish with English subtitles

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A whimsical quartet of short stories, alternately humorous and moving, featuring a standout cast that includes Tamlyn Tomita (Joy Luck Club) and Sab Shimono (Suture). A successful marketing executive has her life turned upside down when she learns to take care of a mechanical infant as a dry run for adopting a real baby in "My Robot Baby." In "The Robot Fixer" the grieving mother of a teenage coma victim is determined to put together the perfect action figure collection in hopes that it will help her son's recovery.

Season:
2003
Director:
Greg Pak
Cinematography:
Peter Olsen
Cast:
Tamlyn Tomita, Sab Shimono, Wai Ching Ho, Greg Pak
Editor:
Stephanie Sterner
Producer:
Greg Pak, Kim Ima, Karin Chien

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Inako is a young woman, leading a lonely life in a contemporary Japanese town, who finds work checking natural water sources for her uncle's company, the local government representative. She is often visited by her widowed mother, who frets over the upcoming ceremony to honor her father's death, and by her other insistent, matchmaking relatives. In the midst of this, Inako finds solace hiking through the countryside, creating her own experiments. That's where she meets Tamamiza, someone who shares her interests and who may provide an escape from her dreary isolation.

Season:
2003
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Nagao Naoki
Cinematography:
Fujii Tamotsu
Cast:
Tadano Miako, Matsuzaka Keiko, Toyokawa Etsushi
Editor:
Nagao Naoki
Producer:
Inoue Hiromichi
Language:
Japanese with English subtitles
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