Short animation

7x3

Short animation
Director: Daniel Winter,Barry Hale
A Little Problem

Short animation
Director: Rob Ride
Kevin tries so hard to make his dates with the sweet Julie romantically successful. But a small, furry creature is determined to thwart his efforts.
Awakening

Short animation
Director: Liam Newton
With little else left in his world, one lonely robot does what he can to restore his only companion before time runs out.
Backstage

Short animation
Director: Pierce Davison
This animated short looks at a group of student performers anxious to impress the director during auditions. Awkward moments and some real surprises ensue, as the characters struggle with their roles. And a grub gets all the limelight!
Calypso

Short animation
Director: Jack Parry
The story of an old man’s escape from dying. In the not-too-distant future our elderly are left to be cared for by machines. George, an abandoned, terminally-ill man, has been left to end his life surrounded by a circle of mechanized carers in a cold, sterile hospital ward. His only solace is what little can be seen from his window. Until one night George has a visitor…
Cockroach

Short animation
Director: Luke Eve
Cockroach tells the story of Charlie - a man who is tragically killed on his wedding day. Reincarnated as a cockroach, he must woo his bride back, or face losing her forever.
Entanglement Theory

Short animation
Director: Richard James Allen
In this visually delightful film, a dancer takes a nap in two realities. Both his real self and his avatar dream, but reality is not so simple when they awake.
Error's Escape

Short animation
Director: Andrew J Clark
In a world of sterile conformity, Error is a lone glitch in the system. He has curiosity, energy and a light bulb stuck to his head. Will he be terminated or will he escape?
Evelyn Everyone

Short animation
Director: Kylie Plunkett
Eve is thirty-three, single, and searching for love online. She might just find herself, as she launches into the online world of second life.
Hog

Short animation
Director: David Webster
How to Lose Weight in 60 Seconds

Short animation
Director: Dave Carter
Don't miss this very valuable advice from a little red creature.
Ink

Short animation
Director: Justine Wallace
A lost toy, a stolen childhood and a girl spray-painting the streets, in search of both.
Jacob

Short animation
Director: Dena Curtis
Gina, a young Aboriginal mother, finds herself in a predicament when her husband Max returns home and learns the truth about baby Jacob.
Journey from Pinsk

Short animation
Director: Magda Matwiejew
Depicting the filmmaker's fragmented memories about her mother who grew up in the World War II war torn district of Pinsk, Belarus and then who emigrated to Australia.
Lash

Short animation
Director: Elka Kerkhofs
Celina finds a dead body. By her touch she sees into another lifetime where this woman was her lover, but they died for their love. She discovers that religious persecution cannot kill the power of love and has a chance to heal the past and find peace.
Lifeboat

Short animation
Director: Mikael Brain
A disheveled man mysteriously emerges from an ancient forest and stumbles across an old wooden boat. He charges the vessel with finding him true nirvana.
Lizard

Short animation
Director: John Skibinski
An Australian frilled neck lizard's simple attempts to get a meal escalate into a full blown dilemma and quest to stay alive.
Looploop

Short animation
Director: Patrick Bergeron
Using animation, sounds warping and time shifts, this video runs forwards and backwards looking for forgotten details, mimicking the way memories are replayed in the mind.
Melbourne Tramontana

Short animation
Director: Federico Passi
A tram journey across Melbourne, as a new and foreign city. A captive experience. A split in reality. A glimpse of time and mind.
My Neighbourhood Has Been Overrun By Baboons

Short animation
Director: Cameron Edser, Michael Richards
What if you woke up one morning and your neighbourhood had been overrun by baboons? What if there was nothing you could do and nowhere you could hide?
Northern Line

Short animation
Director: Marieka Walsh
Great colour and an excellent momentum propel Northen Line forward in a big screen way.
Porcelain

Short animation
Director: Timothy Merks, Roseline Lau
In the year 2079, LB flows through his day, neither awake nor asleep. A girl from 2004 is born fully formed awakened into his present day.
Scary Therapy

Short animation
Director: Suren Perera
Scary Therapy is a short animated film featuring monologues of monsters visiting a lifecoach. During the film we meet a vampire with first date nerves a zombie battling an addiction and a sexually confused swamp monster.
Snarg (The Final Cut)

Short animation
Director: Ian Browning
A tomcat takes revenge on its owners when he gets ‘the snip’ at the vet’s. Revenge may not be so sweet after all.
Testicle

Short animation
Director: Sheldon Lieberman, Igor Coric
Spike is only a few months old... and missing a testicle.
The Adjustable Cosmos

Short animation
Director: Adam Duncan
A fantastical adventure played out in a jewelled cosmos housed inside a great crystal sphere.
The Greatest Moment in the History of the Universe

Short animation
Director: Jonathan Dower
A young girl with a kooky imagination, explains the events that have led up to the greatest moment in the history of the universe...her birth.
The Haplocks

Short animation
Director: -
This episode of the animated series sees the initial conflict in the war between the rednecks and the greenies over the future of the dump.
The Lost Thing

Short animation
Director: Shaun Tan, Andrew Ruhemann
In a world of rivets and drabness, a boy befriends a fantastical red creature that appears to be totatally lost: based on writer-director Tan's prize-winning children's book.
The Not-So-Great Eugene Green

Short animation
Director: Michael Hill
Eugene is a strange elderly man with a simple dream - to entertain the world with vocal sound effects. Unfortunately he has an annoyingly small repertoire.
The Paper Tale

Short animation
Director: Sohan Ariel hayes
The shadow of a child is trapped within a blank book. When the child tries to cut himself free he falls tee-tering into the mysterious paper world within the blank book. In the paper world, everything, of course is made of paper, and, armed with a pair of scissors the shadow boy discovers he has the power to create. As the shadow boy cuts outs out images, they become his friends, who help him create an escape to another world.
The Petrol Can Rider

Short animation
Director: Simon O'Carrigan
In a desolate post-apocalyptic Australian outback landscape, the protagonist attempts to find petrol for his broken down car. Based on 'The Coal Scuttle Rider', a short story by Franz Kafka, this animation deals with anxiety and the tyranny of distance.
The Precinct

Short animation
Director: David Blumenstein
This episode, “Good Friends”, finds Detective Ackersley in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a creep who has nicked his tazer gun. Meanwhile, back at the cop shop (The Precinct), Sarge has suspended the whole crew.
The Sydney Pulse

Short animation
Director: John Patterson
The excitement and vitality of city life is captured in this uniquely futuristic homage to the buildings, people and pace of Sydney. Enjoy this fast techno journey with its pulsating techno soundtrack. The Sydney Pulse has screened at the 2010 London Independent Film Festival, and will be screening at the International Film Festival of Ireland.
The Traveller

Short animation
Director: Anna Glynn
A small intrepid voyager takes a dreamlike journey in his quest to find his place in the world.
Zero

Short animation
Director: Christopher Kezelos
In a world that judges people by their number ZERO faces constant prejudice and persecution. He walks a lonely path until a chance encounter changes his life forever: he meets a female zero. Together they prove that through determination courage and love... nothing can be truly something.