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Last year, we visited a theme park celebrating America’s mythic Wild West in wintery Sweden that became a welcoming home for refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war. As strange as that sounds, this was a pretty good deal for about 500 people looking to start a new life. But with global political winds shifting toward isolationism, the Wild West response to a refugee crisis only lasts so long. We went back to see how the West was lost. Captions available in English, Spanish, French, German, Swedish, and Russian. Let us know if you’ve got a language you’d like to see.

15’ / 16mm / 1.37:1 Fleeing the responsibilities of her relationship, a young Brooklyn woman retreats to her late grandmother’s decaying house upstate, only to discover that some unexpected guests have moved in. Written by: Lance Edmands & Sarah Tihany Directed & Edited by: Lance Edmands Starring: Sarah Tihany, Thomas Sullivan & Roderick Hill Produced by: Craig Butta & Kyle Martin Cinematography: Adam Newport Berra Music & Sound Design: Mark Henry Phillips Casting: Susan Shopmaker Production Designer: April Lasky Costume Designer: David Tabbert Assistant Camera: Gregoire Albertini Gaffer: Alexa Wolf Key Grip: Rachel Kessler Swing: Kenny Wu Production Sound: Joe Cantor Colorist: Mikey Rossiter @ The Mill Production: Washington Square Films © MMXVI Vacationland Films. All rights reserved.

10 Commandments is a self-produced project born out of an initiative between Clim and Marta Pale to challenge each other’s creative thinking separate from the daily grind of their commercial work.  The film illustrates the irony of how the “cursed” attitudes of modern society have transcended the archaic rhetoric of the Catholic church. I just like to make stuff during my spare time. There’s something interesting in making Low-fi projects. It’s a way to don’t feel the pressure of the commercial work and to be focused on learning things from the process instead of being too concerned about the final result. Thanks to Ferran Capo (art), Marta Folch (Photography), Aimar Molero (music) and Blai Barba (sound design).

Sue and Kath are on a road trip with Sue’s mom to visit her grandma. On their way, they’ll encounter a hitchhiker, two first-time cops, some salty bikers, and they’ll try to grow from the experience into cool & liberated teens.

Yuko’s love for strawberries knows no bounds and she believes they will save the world🍓. Featuring – Yuko Okumura & Shohaku Okumura Director – Yoko Okumura/ www.yokofilm.com Producer – Christopher Ruiz Cinematographer – Bennett Cerf/ www.bennettcerf.com Animator – Isabelle Aspin/ http://bit.ly/2rJwema Sound Design – Sean Hines Colorist – Loren White + Lookwell/ http://lookwell.tv Original Music – Polartropica/Ihui Wu & Alexander Noice/ www.polartropica.com Opening theme mixing and mastering – C.M. Rodriguez Title Design – Anna Watanabe Made possible by the generous donation of all our strawberry friends!🍓❤️

A man who “looks like a terrorist” decides to use it to his advantage- leading to an absurdly comical yet dark turn of events. THE VISIT is an upside down look at present day racial prejudices.

An ode to a lost age of Internet love 😊 MAKING OF http://bit.ly/2qNe3hk written, directed, and animated by SEAN BUCKELEW music and sound design by SKILLBARD (www.skillbard.com) singer SOPHIE KOKO GATE animation assistance ISABELLE ASPIN, CAMERON MCMANUS, RACHEL HO, BRIAN SMEE, HAE-JOON LEE background assistance JOSH SHAFFNER effects animation BRIAN SMEE, CALEB WOOD compression effects by JACK TURPIN live action director of photography BRIAN SMEE costume design ISABELLE ASPIN, SEAN BUCKELEW thanks to JOE BENNETT, GRACE RHEE, CALVIN FREDERICK, CHARLES HUETTNER, DAVID LEWANDOWSKI, JESS IGLEHART, JEANETTE BONDS, THERESA LATZKO, JACOB SLUKA, QUIQUE RIVERA, TOJOARC & RACHEL HO SCREENINGS Flatpack Film Festival (April 4th-7th, 2017) Cardiff Animation Nights (May 5th-7th, 2017) Pictoplasma (May 10th-14th, 2017) Rooftop Films (June 3rd, 2017) Animafest Zagreb (June 5th-10th, 2017) Palm Springs International ShortFest (June 20th-26th) Anima Mundi (July 18th-23rd) Animation Block Party (July 27th-30th, 2017)

From the album ‘Emergence’ out now Buy ‘Emergence’ http://bit.ly/2omlYRH For more information about the Emergence project visit http://bit.ly/2phfAsi Follow on Spotify: http://bit.ly/2qIcLSQ “For this chapter of the Emergence story I wanted to escape the computational and data-driven approaches often used in other parts of the project, and try something more humanised. I found an amazing artist called Sabine Volkert, who hand-draws every frame of her videos, which creates a very particular sort of feeling, and one that seemed to me to fit with the feeling of the music and of the concept involved – the tinkering of animal development via random mutation to create a rich variation of forms on which natural selection can act – the mechanism of Darwinian Evolution. Sabine told this story with warping morphologies, exploring the range of animal structures we see around us. All of these different structures have many shared underlying principles, such as segmentation (units built around analogues of a spinal cord), modularity (organs as individual units), and bilateral symmetry (mirrored body structure to give directionality for senses). There are many more of these common principles shared amongst animal forms, which are coded for and created by shared molecular mechanisms like the genetic code and gene regulation, which guide the process of development to create each different animal. Because of this mechanism of conserved systems and principles, random mutations in small regions of DNA can produce large scale, coordinated changes in bodily structure. It’s evolution of evolvability – nature has set up system which is likely to produce a wide range of potentially viable, but different animals, as the best bet for survival in an unpredictable world.” Max Cooper “For Max’ beautiful track Organa I grounded the video’s visual concept and stylistic choices in its thematic background, while leaving a lot of room for experimentation throughout the entire process. Following only a set of rules for the standalone animation chains and a rough overall structure, everything was pieced together gradually, evolving into the final compositions guided by the musical cues as everything unfolds over time.” Sabine Volkert http://bit.ly/2pWwlO0 Follow Max Cooper http://bit.ly/2phqiPn http://bit.ly/2pWdUc8 https://twitter.com/maxcoopermax http://bit.ly/2omD4Pd