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GUILLERMO CARBONELL
Montevideo, Uruguay
A man sees on his dreams a five-digit number. When he wakes up, the number starts to appear in various elements of his everyday life. Coincidence or a signal?

Paper Insect
ALISON DAVIS
Montreal, Canada
A creature's obsession with collecting insects reaches its pinnacle when he captures a giant dragonfly, but his new acquisition could threaten the entire collection.

Vanity (*Juror Choice Award)
JEREMY DEAN
St. Augustine, Florida
Through the eyes of a man raking flowers, Vanity explores the balance between the need to work for survival, while becoming lost in the mundane grind of daily life. Asking the question - how much of our time is spent on personal vanity?

Downhome Cookin'
PETER ENNS
Greenbelt, Maryland
A hungry hillbilly prepares a special dish by following his family's favorite recipe: roadkill raccoon.

Homeland Security
RICKY FAUST
Phoenix, Arizona
A short story of a man so entrapped by the paranoia and fear of his "post-September 11 world" that he bars himself inside his home.

garpenfargle (*AZ Award and Audience Choice Honorable Mention)
EDWARD KIM and BILL KERSEY
Tucson, Arizona
The master of the house is leaving and young Hobbes is left alone, unable to follow the rules the master expected of him. Everything was just garpenfargle.

There Was A Man And He Was Mad
BENJAMIN B. KINSLEY
Granville, Ohio
A cut-out animation set to a traditional children's folk sing-along song. It is a nonsensical story where an old man, controlled by a choir of children, is forced to endure a number of nonsensical activities.

Better Life
ATSUKO KUBOTA
Los Angeles, California
The banal days go by without you realizing it. Vividly colored watercolor integrated with 3D computer animation presents the details of a somewhat unremarkable normal life to question beauties in common things.

La Brea (*Juror Choice Award)
GABRIEL LICHSTEIN
Los Angeles, California
On his last nigh in Los Angeles ­ desperate to escape his overly helpful friends ­ the more Scott struggles the more trapped he becomes.

Hello (*LeBlanc Audience Choice Award)
JONATHAN NIX
Sydney, Australia
A lovesick loner struggles to find the right words.

Articulate Citrus
DEVIN NORDMEYER
Phoenix, Arizona
A man finds a talking orange in his refrigerator.

Teddy Huggsbeary
BRIAN OAKES
Providence, Rhode Island
Lonely, little Amanda wishes her Teddy Bear would come to life and be her friend. A magical flying gnome appears and grants her wish.

Johnny Dullstar
BOB PARIS
Richmond, Virginia
A grim look at the myth of Hollywood, Johnny Dullstar is an experimental documentary portrait of the one-legged man who shines the stars along Hollywood Boulevard.

My Favorite Things
BOB PARIS
Richmond, Virginia
The warm and comforting tones of a classic song merge with surreal animation from TV news' war coverage in this disturbing meditation of America's distant war in Iraq.

War is Hell
BOB PARIS
Richmond, Virginia
Life in American during wartime isn't easy. Fortunately, there are people on TV who can help.

Skip
ANN STEUERNAGEL
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Ship is composed of found footage of children attempting to overcome an array of physical obstacles and is inspired, in part, by Alvin Lucier’s I am sitting in a room.

Inventing: Music
MATT STRATTON and DALLAS TRINKLE
Chicago, Illinois
Bill Henderson lives his dreams on the edge of society. When he's not riding his hog, he's playing his music to the only people that can truly understand an outlaw. A story about how the way in which we view ourselves rearranges the way we see and remember the world.

Untitled Book Series
MICHAEL TRIGILIO
Oakland, California
Untitled Book Series explores our cultural infatuation with popular media, anxiety, and narcissism. Much of the work seeks to deconstruct the nature of obsession, both personal and political.