Skip to main content

ANIMATION: THE ILLUSION OF LIFE

Asian American Panorama / 88 mins

ANIMATION: THE ILLUSION OF LIFE

UltraStar Mission Valley
November 4, 2012 2:30 pm

ANIMATION: THE ILLUSION OF LIFE

UltraStar Mission Valley
November 7, 2012 5:30 pm

Description

How do you coax life out of thin air? Find out in this program dedicated entirely to the magical art of animation.

Some mature content
Cast and crew scheduled to attend

Co-presented by: The Art Institute of California

In This Program

38-39°C

Kangmin Kim / USA / 2011 / Short / 8 mins
A bathhouse, a birthmark, and a whole lot of heat.
BONNIE

Masanori Okamoto / Japan / 2011 / Short / 2 mins
A paper cutout named Bonnie rides like the wind.
BRIDGE

Ting Chian Tey / USA / 2010 / Short / 3 mins
Four animals need to cross the same bridge. Who will win?
BUTTERFLY DREAM

Woonha Jang / USA / 2011 / Short / 9 mins
A kid takes a cyberbully into his own hands, but will he succeed?
CHILDREN

Takuya Okada / Japan / 2011 / Short / 4 mins
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control.
CLIMBER

Akifumi Nonaka / Japan / 2010 / Short / 6 mins
It's lonely at the top.
IN YOUR ARMS

Greg Jardin / USA / 2011 / Short / 3 mins
What do you get when you mix Kina Grannis with 288,000 jelly beans?
MEMORIES OF THE SONG

Choi Jin-sung / South Korea / 2010 / Short / 4 mins
A boy dreams about a girl, love, and piping hot bowls of ramen.
MR CHAN: MISUNDERSTOOD MAN

Dan Lee / USA / 2010 / Short / 3 mins
Mr. Chan is racially profiled at a Star Trek convention.
MY NAME IS MITCH

Michelle Yoon / Canada / 2011 / Short / 3 mins
A birdman contemplates his place and identity in an inhumane world.
ON THE WATER

Yi Zhao / Netherlands / 2012 / Short / 8 mins
Life is a non-stop struggle to propel oneself forward.
ONE SIDED LOVE

Jin A Yoon / USA / 2011 / Short / 4 mins
Despite a daughter's bad behavior toward her mother, love is not easily withheld.
OPUESTO

Tree Liu / Taiwan / 2011 / Short / 4 mins
Persecution and crucifixion alien-style, till the last gecko stands.
THE RETURN OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE

Rui Xu / USA / 2010 / Short / 3 mins
A visual feast through ancient China and Dunhuang buddhistic culture.
SEASONS

Haowei Hu / USA / 2011 / Short / 2 mins
Surreal motion graphics journey through the changing of seasons.
THE SHOPGIRL

Diana Ling / USA / 2012 / Short / 4 mins
Mundane afternoon at a comic book store turns into a brawl between two boys over a girl.
STEPS

Tochka / Japan / 2010 / Short / 2 mins
Battle to the death between light and man.
SUMO LAKE

Greg Holfeld / Australia / 2011 / Short / 3 mins
A rapid re-telling of the Swan Lake ballet as an animated wrestling-giant-lizard movie.
THE TENDER MARCH

Wataru Uekusa / Japan / 2011 / Short / 5 mins
Visual roller-coaster ride right out of a Japanese, pop culture-infused graphic novel.
WHY DO WE PUT UP WITH THEM?

David Chai / USA / 2011 / Short / 2 mins
An animated poem about a little stinker I love.
WILL

Eusong Lee / USA / 2012 / Short / 5 mins
As a father leaves for work one fateful September morning, a child dreams.
Precedes: JULIAN