Rooftop Films and IFC: Animation in Chelsea Market (Event Over)

Monday, November 10th

Rooftop Films presents the Best Animation from the Rooftop Films on IFC.com

Amazing Independent Animated Shorts

Venue: Indoors at Chelsea Market
Address: 75 9th Ave (Between 15th and 16th Streets, Manhattan)
Directions: A, C, E, or L to 14th Street and 8th Ave
7:00: Live Music by Ivana XL
7:30: Independent Animation from Rooftop Films and IFC.com
Admission: Free!

Free Radeberger Pilsner for all in attendance (must be 21 to drink)

On Monday, November 10th, Rooftop Films returns to the halls of Chelsea market for a free screening of 10 amazing independent animated films chosen from Rooftop Films’ 2008 Summer Series and our library of shorts. For the past two years, Rooftop and IFC have been streaming many of our shorts on our page on IFC.com, and on the 10th we’ll be screening a selection of some of the best of the bunch—many of which will be primiering on IFC.com in the next few weeks.

Before the films Ivana XL will be performing her beautiful music live, and throughout the show we will have free bottles of beer courtesy of Radeberger Pilsner.

WATCH NEW FILMS EVERY WEEK

Visit our dedicated Rooftop Films page on IFC.com http://www.ifc.com/film/rooftop/ to see some of the best short films in the world. New films are posted to the site three times a week; by the end of the year there will be 100 great shorts up there. All the shorts will stay online until at least the end of 2008, so there is ae a huge library of extraordinary films to peruse and enjoy.

Comedy, drama, documentary, animation—these films come from all over the world and span every imaginable genre in the short film universe. Rooftop Films receives more than 2,000 short film submissions a year and we are choosing the very best of them to stream on IFC.com. The Rooftop Films page on IFC.com will be one of the most exclusive online collections of great shorts available anywhere in the digital world. And all of it is conveniently organized so that film lovers can now discover talented new filmmakers online without having to sift through the millions of unsorted videos on the internet.

These are films you'll want to watch more than once, and now you can. hare these films with friends who aren't lucky enough to make it to one of our regular shows

The Films:
La Revolution Des Crabes (Arthur Des Pines | France | 4:50)
A charming French animation about a race of shellfish who have doomed themselves to walk forever in the same direction.

The Tourists (Malcolm Sutherland | Montreal | 3:00)
Another transient day at the beach.

Princess (Ethan Clarke | San Francisco, CA | 7:00)
A likely story of an unbreakable friendship between a woman and her cat. We need them. Do they really need us?

Dog (Hermann Karlsson | Iceland | 1:00)
Remembering the death of a dog and the guilt of a boy that soon followed.

Mr. Smile (Fran Krause | Brooklyn, NY | 8:15)
Creepy smiley-faces, brain-damaged monkeys, shrunken roosters, denture stealing squirrels and robotic old men gather together for an unlikely party.

Rocket Science! (Sam Morrison | England | 14:00)
When mystery comes calling at Grime City captain Jack Hersey is forced to confront his darkest fear—people from out of town.

Intermission

Dock 5 (Benjamin Devaux | France | 5:00)
A glorious animated musical celebration of the dockworker, another disappearing occupation.

The Drift (Kelly Sears | Los Angeles | 8:00)
An absurd fable crafted from images found in thrift store bookshelves about our country's unflinching frontierism and the desire to push too far, too fast. www.kellysears.com

Snake (Becky James | New York | 3:00)
Deceptively playful, Snake is a film about stubbornness in the face of change. The film chronicles a failure to deal with growing up while using its extremely appealing characters and sounds to glorify the obdurate attempt to replace what is lost.

Bob Log III’s Pony Dick Story (Sebastian Wolf and Tinka Stock | Berlin Germany | 2:03)
Bob Log III is a one man dirt-rock-blues band whose performances are not to be missed. His dad used to clean pony dicks.

One Skin (Gudrun Cram-Drach | Los Angeles | 10:16)
Mary is confronted by different options for her future— independence at a cost or the confinement of traditional roles. In her efforts to rise above these limiting scenarios, Mary is offered a glimpse of freedom in the bird she seeks as well as a potential solution in the actions of a rebellious little girl.

Compost (Visual Voice | New York | 3:00)
The music of flowers, bugs and leaves.

A Catalogue of Anticipations (David Lowery | Texas | 5:00)
An ominous fable about a young girl and her collection of dead things.