Sundance is bringing to theaters this fall a collection of eight animated shorts that have all screened at the famous festival.
The 95-minute program will play at the Sundance Sunset Cinema in Los Angeles starting Sept. 26, with additional cities and dates to be announced, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The films in the program are:
- Belly. Written and directed by Julia Pott. U.K., 7 minutes. Oscar is coming of age, against his better judgment. In doing so he must experience the necessary evil of leaving something behind, but can still feel it in the pit of his stomach.
- It’s Such A Beautiful Day. Written and directed by Don Hertzfeldt. USA, 23 minutes. In the third and final chapter to Don Hertzfeldt’s Everything Will Be OK, Bill finds himself in a hospital struggling with memory problems.
- Marilyn Myller. Written and directed by Mikey Please. USA/United Kingdom, 6 minutes. Marilyn maketh. Marilyn taketh awayeth. Marilyn is trying really hard to create something good. For once, her expectation and reality are going to align. It will be epic. It will be tear-jerkingly profound. It will be perfect. Nothing can go wrong.
- The Obvious Child. Written and directed by Stephen Irwin. U.K., 12 minutes. Somebody broke the girl’s parents. The rabbit was there when it happened. It was an awful mess.
- Oh Willy…. Written and directed by Marc James Roels and Emma De Swaef. Belgium/France/Netherlands, 17 minutes. Willy returns to his naturalist roots as he bungles his way into noble savagery.
- Subconscious Password. Written and directed by Chris Landreth. Canada, 11 minutes. Chris Landreth, the director of the Academy Award–winning short Ryan, plays Charles, a man paralyzed by his inability to remember a friend’s name. Thus begins a mind-bending romp through a game show of the unconscious — complete with animated celebrity guests.
- Voice on the Line. Written and directed by Kelly Sears. USA, 7 minutes. The era of nuclear anxiety, the Red scare, and covert CIA plots forever changed the way we engage with the telephone.
- Yearbook. Written and directed by Bernardo Britto. USA, 6 minutes. Short Film Jury Award: Animation, Sundance 2014. A man is hired to compile the definitive history of human existence before the planet blows up.
