The 2010 Sundance Film Festival starts on January 21st, and I spotted some interesting animated films included in the line-up. I don’t have a clip for the one I’m perhaps most excited about – Don Hertzfeldt’s latest film Wisdom Teeth, which I believe is loosely based on this comic strip he created a while back.

So here goes:

Let’s Harvest the Organs of Death Row Inmates – animated by Chris Weller

One Square Mile of Earth – by Jeff Drew

Rains by David Coquard-Dassault

The 2009 Sundance Film Festival has wrapped up, and as the aisles are being swept, let’s take a look at one of the animated shorts that was in competition. Monsieur Cok (Mister Cok) is a 10-minute film directed by Frenchman Franck Dion that centers on a man employing some efficiency strategies at his bomb factory. Produced by Papy3D Productions with help from Studio Train-Train, the short was screened in the International Short Films category. Here’s the trailer:

Lies, an animated short from Swedish mixed-media specialist Jonas Odell, has been awarded with the top prize for international shorts at Sundance. Odell is most famous perhaps for his short Never Like the First Time!, which won the Golden Bear at the 2006 Berlinale, and his work in music videos, including the kinetic and font-astically typographical video for Franz Ferdinand’s hit Take me Out. Lies is a triptych of stories about untruthfulness and its consequences, one of which can be seen below.

The 2009 Sundance Film Festival is upon us, and aside from excitement that my friend Doug Pray’s documentary, Art & Copy, made it in, I’m overloaded with animated shorts to watch. There’s two main animation categories – U.S. Animated Shorts and International Animated Shorts. Today, let’s see what’s cooking in the US of A. A number of these in past posts, which we’ll show you below, but they’re also screening Western Spaghetti from PES, Hot Dog from Bill Plympton and I Am So Proud of You by Don Hertzfeldt.

Field Notes From Dimension X: Oasis was directed by Carson Mell:

From Burger It Came was directed by Dominic Bisignano:

I Live In The Woods by Max Winston:

Later in the week, we’ll cover the International films. It’s animation overload!