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couple fights on pretty nights

broken necks and TV sets

Principal Crew

Chris King – Director, Animator, Music

TRT: 2:50

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…it’s jumping that’s hard.

A short film about the harrows of taking that initial leap.

Principal Crew

Chris King – writer, director, animator

TRT: 2:15

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A stop motion portrayal of euphoric remembrance, first love, first loss, and the release of contained adoration into a life of isolation and regret.

I met her on Halloween
I was a skeleton
She was a rabbit

The thing about rabbits is
They’re hard to catch
Especially when riding a bicycle

That year, I got a bike for my birthday

We would ride
Soaring like lovebirds
And I still remember her hair on the wind

Always in the latest fashion

She would stand in front of the mirror
Naked
For hours
Weeping

I would stare at her body
She was beautiful
I tried drawing other figures
But she was the only doll for me

Her favorite thing was an old Barbie
“Kept it in an antique cedar chest,” she said

One night, I surprised her
And came over with a pendant
A lovebird
But she was gone

So I opened the chest
To put the medallion ‘round her doll

My love was inside
All curled up

She called me, “A gatecrasher.”
I called her, “My Pandora.”
She was an enigma

After that
I took the key to her chest
To her heart

That’s when she closed herself off
Shut herself in
Locked me out

She slowly disappeared
But never faded away

Legend says a true skeleton key
Can unlock anything

Except my bicycle bunny in the box
That will never open again

This skeleton key doesn’t work…

Principal Crew

• Written and Directed by Joe Kavitski

Principal Actors

• Voice Over by Dana Boyer

TRT: 2 min 46 sec

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An animated gothic tragedy saturated in passion and romance, love and lies, but above all, betrayal, and the consequences thereof.

Lost lore of a lass a seldom soul knows
Most melancholy misery mixed with more woe
Thou countenance considers, curiosity flows
Mystique and intrigue so steadily grows
For message and moral thy tale whilst show
Why winds whistle and blow, bellowing, “Scarlet Rose!”

She, pale as marrow in beauty, yet blessed
Flaxen hair, skin fair, ne’er sun caressed
Vanity vacant, detached and depressed
O’er agony asunder, aghast, Oh! Obsessed
Pricking edges of thorns ‘gainst ivory flesh
Whilst ruby blossoms bash thy bare breast

Now, lost in the night, or so it doth seem
Orb bound in flight, illumining beams
Sleeping in spite of disheartening dreams
She screamed at thy sight; crimson on cream!
Betwixt of thy blight, red on white, still she screams
“Oh! What a sight! And still it doth stream!”

Lying in life, feeling foolish, a kern
Choking and coughing, her stomach doth churn
As hands clasp her throat; clocks tock and turn
Time fleeting and bleeding, she yelps and she yearns
The memories resurface, resound, and return
Reminiscing doth she, her heart starts to burn

Twas in the mid of summer’s day
Her lover beside her, in fields they lay
Glorious rapture, both blissful and gay
When suddenly something somewhere would stray
He’d flee; She’d be bleeding and broken, betrayed
As sun turns to tempest, her light fades away

Yet before his depart be dismal and dour
He turns to sweet Scarlet in this; their last hour
For inside of a moment, the present is power
And future, though fleeting, he fixed with a flower
Said he, “I’ll return to thee Ivory Tower.”
Then left her alone amongst icy cold showers

Now, lonely and lost within mental abyss
Nebulous nothings that cease to exist
Mourning and moaning of memories missed
In agony and anger hands clenched in a fist
Screams pierced the air; thorns pierced thy wrist
Forgetting the future of fate with a twist

As sanguine Scarlet closes her eyes
Tears sting her soul, which ne’er can dry
Flooded with fantasy, lost within lies
Lamenting illusions, grieving goodbyes
In this early evening, she withers and dies
And Scarlet rose to the Heavens while the scarlet rose cries…

Principal Crew:

• Written and Animated by Joe Kavitski
• Voice Over by Dana Boyer

Principal Actors:

• Shannon Phypers- Scarlet
• Nick Northrup- Scarlet’s Lover

TRT: 4 min 21 sec