Earth Day 50 Grand Prize (2020)
Overview
A reading of the Grand Prize-winning essay in the Earth Day 50 Art & Essay Contest, April 22, 2020, held in Clark County, Nevada. Narration by winner Sydney Lin; illustrated by the top 20 artwork entries; music by permission, Zukir Hussain.
Production Companies
Additional Info
| Budget | $2,020.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $100.00 |
| Original Language | en |
| Popularity | 0.598 |
Directed By
Taj Ainlay
TOP CAST
Sydney Lin
Narrator
Similar Movies
Antarctica
Antarctica is the story of John and his fellow explorers who get stuck on Antarctica and attempt to save themselves. Their journey is both physical and a spiritual one. John escapes his past but when fate catches up with him, he is forced to confront himself.
Time Machines
Short animation by Bernardo Britto
Breakfast
Relentlessly reworking ‘real’ images, using techniques borrowed from painting and animated film, Patrick Bokanowski is an author of stature, capable of creating an insane and cataclysmic universe of unquestionable beauty.
The Beach
Reworked and colored images of people playing at the seashore.
Life's Musical Minute
Life’s Musical Minute, recently re-discovered, is a short promotional film of this kind, based on Gene Krupa’s drum solo from “Golden Wedding” by the Woody Herman jazz band. It was Lye’s attempt to gain support from Life Magazine.
Yellow Is the New Black
An adventure about two minions which try to escape from jail.
Bus Stop
Made at the Royal College of Art in the last year of my MA using Photoshop mainly. I'd been watching cartoons and silent comedy shorts from the 20's and felt like doing some character animation.
The Marshal's Two Executions
The film confronts two different views of the execution of General Ion Antonescu, Romania's leader during the Second World War.
Salmon
Transformed into a salmon, an Indigenous street artist travels through decayed urban landscapes to the forests of long ago, in this sublime mixed animation.
Panic in the Mailroom
Two Minions are busy at work in the mailroom. One of them, bored, decides to throw a box of expired PX-41 samples into its designated chute.
Puppy
A Minion, seeing many owners walk their dogs, wants a puppy of his own. He tries to leash a ladybug but fails. Luckily, a UFO that sweeps away the ladybug somehow agrees to become a Puppy.
Minions: Training Wheels
Margo, Edith, and Agnes spot an ice cream truck. The three of them go after the truck but Agnes falls as she attempts to pedal to the truck. The Minions, seeing her so upset by this, decide to build her a unicorn-themed motorcycle. Agnes goes for a little ride around town.
Millésimes
Animated short film presented at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in 2000 by students of GOBELINS, l'école de l'image.
Under Your Fingers
The day of the cremation of her grand mother, Emilie, a young mixed-race Asian girl, buries herself into her grandmother memories. She discovers the Indochina of Hoa, her romantic encounter with Jacques (a French colon), the birth of Linh (Emilie's mother) and her tragic departure to France in 1956. She relives with Linh the arrival into the camp of Sainte-Livrade, the exploitation of the Indochinese women by the market gardeners of Lot-et-Garonne. Between memories, dance, anger and traditional rituals, Emilie learns to accept this heritage.
La Noche Boca Arriba
A man has a motorcycle accident. Upon arriving at the hospital he begins to have strange hallucinations of a past that does not seem to be his. Here he begins a journey that will collapse the limits of his own reality. Chilean stop motion animated short film, based on the homonymous story by Julio Cortázar.
The Owl & the Pussycat
Short animation by Al Jarnow based on the work of British poet Edward Lear. Made at NYU.
Scratching and Painting on Film
A stream of consciousness experiment committed directly to celluloid, Jarnow pays homage to Stan Brakhage and Harry Smith. Abstract designs transform self portraiture, lettering tests and images traced from other films including a Charlie Chaplin short.
Yak
Jarnow's first work for Sesame Street and the Children's Television Workshop - yak is a goofy take on the letter "Y."
Tondo
Tondo introduces the cosmic formalism that was the primary theme of Al Jarnow's independent films. An infinite gridscape alternates with vibrating etchings, spirograms and other surreal realities.
One Day
One man always on the move will have an encounter that puts into question everything he knows.