Anchorage International Film Festival

MARTINI  MATINEE

Friday, December 12 at 3 PM - Mixx Grill at Inlet Towers

$5 or Free with All Festival Pass

Come in from the cold and join the fun! It's our short-attention-span cinema for the fabulous cosmo film crowd! These films are not the usual mix. A movie trivia contest with some great prizes will be part of the afternoon's festivities.

Broken Rainbow

USA • 9 min. - Animation

By Chia-Chien Mai


A melancholy lamb was caged in the zoo. In order to gain freedom, he tried to escape. However, he doesn’t know something behind the door is waiting for him.

Codswallop

UK • 3 min. - Animation

By Brothers McLeod


Based on a series of surreal stream of consciousness postcards sent by the filmmaker to his son, Codswallop features a collection of uncanny characters at crucial moments in their briefly glimpsed stories. Beware of hats!

Murmur

USA • 7 min. - Animation

By Peter Byrne


Murmur is contemplation on memory and landscape. In this experimental piece the artists combine music and ephemeral visual sequences in order to evoke a layered, shifting, and evolving sense of place.

One Nice Family Photo

UK - 4 min. - Animation

By Tom Senior


My family rarely gets together, so when it happens we always take a photo. As if dinner with nine people and the dog isn’t memorable enough!

Profile

Canada - 4 min. Animation

Directed by Sharon Katz

A woman in profiled by an airport behavior detection device ser aching for "otherness" or threat.

An Unquiet Mind

USA • 6 min. - Animation

By Chih Wen Lo


Inspired by his struggle with Bipolar Disorder and Kay Redfield Jamison’s book, “An Unquiet Mind”, is about the filmmaker’s friend Shuei’s mercurial journey of mood swings and deep restlessness.

Spider

Australia - 9 min. – Super short

Directed by Nash Edgerton

Date completed 2007

 

It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye.

Susitna Story

Alaska • 4 min. - Snowdance selection

By Peter Dunlap-Shohl

Accompanied by narration that is reminiscent of Robert Service meets The Charlie Daniels Band, a plucky musher must defend Alaska pride and her soul when she is challenged to a sled dog race by Satan.

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