Day One HIFF

The World of Animation Short Program
BALLYVAUGHAN STORY (Sara Pocock, USA, 2006, 7 min) tells some tales told to the writer by his mother of the Irish War of Independence in 1921
BICYCLE MESSENGERS (Joshua Frankel, USA, 2006, 5 min) sings praises of the highly focused "super" bike messengers, uban pony express.
FOLKLORE RESTAURANT (Tomoko Oguchi, USA, 2005, 14 min) looks like animation of torn paper figures and share fox legends from different countries.
GUIDE DOG (Bill Plympton, USA, 2006, 5 min), a sequel to GUARD DOG, cracked me up. A funny, clueless little dog, tries hard to be a guide dog. Too bad for his clients.
MINOTAURAMAQUIA, PABLO IN THE LABYRINTH (Juan Pablo Etcheverry, Spain, 2004, 10 min) Pablo Picasso desperately escapes from the Minotaur's maze.
SAUL GOODMAN (Jim Connell, USA, 2006, 28 min), A complex, talky story of two men who miss their train with a political message.
TOILET STORY (Isaac Finkbeiner, Myanh Lu, Troy Hieda, USA, 2006, 3 min), If our bathroom accessories could talk, what would they say?
MISSING PAGES (Jerome Olivier, Japan, 2006, 24 min) a short movie shot entirely with a digital still camera. The photos were manipulated using a technique lovingly dubbed "fotomation" and took 14 months to make. A scientist develops a time machine for peaceful applications, but in the end it leads to apocalypse.
ROLLING DOWN LIKE PELE explores the world of traditional Hula and Chant.
THE WRAITH OF COBBLE HILL (Adam Parrish King, USA, 2006, 15 min) is a dark story of a boy who finds some sort of redemption in his world of poverty and hunger.


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Arctic Son is a documentary filmed in the native village of Old Crow, which in in Canada, inside the Arctic Circle. Junior has believes his mom did the best he could raising him in Seattle. He likes to party and drink and seems destined to a short life of addiction and early death. His father invites him to spend time with him and reconnect with his roots. They go fishing and hunting in the unforgiving wilderness. The funniest line in this to this Hawaiian anyway is always, "Boy, it's hot!".

Yo-yo Girl Cop is a live action film based on a Japanese anime. It is implausible and slow in parts but fun. I was expecting more. I almost fell asleep as it was a late movie, starting late and getting out at midnight.

I rate the animations 3/5 acorns, Arctic Son documentary 5/5 acorns and Yo-yo Girl Cop 2/5 acorns.