The Image Formed

Program 8

Some of the animated shorts in this year's festival deal with the art of animation itself. "Dragon" (Troy Morgan) combines stop-motion clay with traditional animation to tell the story of an artistic orphan and her unique revenge on the man who exploits her abilities. "Some Analog Lines" (David Lowery) is a short documentary examining the place of technology in animation. Lowery compares his handmade stop-motion films to his brother's computer animation work, comparing the creativity involved in both and asking if the artist's "fingerprints" can still be seen despite the modern technology. "Devil's Canyon" (Kelly Sears) doesn't discuss animation directly, but the story of a mechanical-horse factory in the dying Old West, told in photographs clipped from second-hand magazines, also works as a metaphor for the changing industry.

– Jeremy Martin

10/20, 2pm, S.F. Austin; 10/22, 2:30pm, S.F. Austin