Animation
2021 Online New England Film Festival Retrospective | NewEnglandFilm Discovery | Animation | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
Repetition Compulsion
An animated documentary about trauma & the cycles of abuse suffered by homeless women.
2020 Online New England Film Festival | Online New England Film Festival Local Premiere | Animation | Rhode Island | Watch Online Now |
Yellow Dress
Riss Goodwin is mother, wife, and a reinvented actress who resumes her dreams to get to Hollywood and become a famous actress. She is therefore excited to audition for Medea the Musical in Chinatown, an avant garde iteration with music. However with in-laws coming in five hours with a two hour audition process, counting traffic, she is severely pressed for time.
As she jumps into her work she hears “the wheels on the bus go round and round” and her world alters and she grows younger and younger. In this undesired memory, Riss becomes the child version of herself, Rachel. Rachel and her brother Sang Duk are paid off to be owned by an orphanage. The children scream for their father and the musicality of the screams push Rachel back to reality and Riss’s is surreal. Her eyes land on on the “wheels on the bus.” Riss fiercely turns the program off. She knows she must stay on task.
She looks around the house and grows sick by the mess a toddler can create. But with love for both her husband and son, she does her best to tidy up. Once she enters into Hosu’s (meaning lake in Korean) playroom, she grows envious by the abundance of his toys, books, and play items. She locates a book given to her at her baby shower, titled: BiBimBop – a Korean rice dish and takes a moment to read. She wants to wean away her ghosts.
However as she moves through the pages, she is jerked inside another memory. This time a ghastly series of events leave her naked with black and blue eyes. She is crying and in severe pain. Riss remembers this moment vividly. A friendly outcast brings Rachel clothes and carries her out.
We see Rachel shortly afterwards, staring in a mirror looking at herself in a ripped, tattered and stained yellow dress. She utters yellow dress, growing happier with each utterance. She smiles. Rachel sees herself for the very first time.
2020 Online New England Film Festival | Newburyport Film Festival | Raw Art Works | Animation | Documentary | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
City of Sin
A film that shines light on a city left in the dark.
2020 Online New England Film Festival | Online New England Film Festival Local Premiere | Animation | Maine | Watch Online Now |
Singing in the Dark Times
The song Singing in the Dark Times was written in December 2016, a month after the presidential election. America had just taken a momentous turn—one that would affect not only social policy but also the temper of the nation. What concerned me then, and does now, is how we, individually and collectively, should respond to powerful, destructive forces. How do we hold on to our personal guidelines for decency when facing a daunting malevolence? I felt compelled to write a song about that, and in my search for a central metaphor I remembered the short poem, Motto, by Bertolt Brecht:
“In the dark times, will there also be singing?
Yes, there will be singing about the dark times.”
2020 Online New England Film Festival | Newburyport Film Festival | Animation | Experimental | Connecticut | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
City of Sin
Experimental animated short from Raw Art Works student Juliana Gallant. City of Sin was a finalist for the Shoots! Youth Prize for an outstanding film by a filmmaker seventeen or under at Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival 2018.
2020 Online New England Film Festival | | Animation | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
Downhill
Four plagued neighbors resort to self destruction when their decaying apartment intends to drag its residents down with it.
2020 Online New England Film Festival | Raw Art Works | Animation | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
Out of the Shadows
Where there is light, there will be shadows.
A group of young animators explore their relationships with their shadow side.
2018 Online New England Film Festival | Woods Hole Film Festival | Animation | Comedy | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
Liberty and Justice: A Cautionary Tale in the Land of the Free
What happens when a pair of lost citizens wander in the deep dark woods in search of a leader? In this satirical take of the traditional folktale, “Hansel and Gretel”, the wordless story follows protagonists Liberty and Justice as they negotiate the challenges of today’s unique political landscape, while being shadowed by a persistent Twitter bird.
2018 Online New England Film Festival | Online New England Film Festival Local Premiere | Animation | Rhode Island | Watch Online Now |
The Reflection In Me
You are perfectly perfect just the way you are! Marc Colagiovanni, an attorney based in Rhode Island, has a positive message to share with the world. The new filmmaker approached FableVision Studios to help him produce an animated version of his story The Reflection in Me. The film’s goal is to empower children of all ages to find the courage to look inside and love themselves as they are.
With FableVision founder and renowned children’s book author Peter H. Reynolds at the helm as illustrator and executive producer, The Reflection in Me follows the impactful experience of a child going through the practice of self-love and acceptance. The film seeks to promote the message of having a positive self-image and unconditional love.
2017 Online New England Film Festival | Rhode Island International Film Festival | Animation | Rhode Island | Watch Online Now |
Swimming Into Darkness
An orphaned astronaut goes on a journey to discover the true nature of the universe in this epic, evocative animated short.