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Dentist |
| January, 2005 |
10 min. |
New York City |
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A fearful Patient with a pain, an enthusiastic Dentist with dental tools
join in an interesting situation where itıs only the two of them and a strange
picture on a wall.
Perhaps the most horrifyiing of all human (?) confrontations....
Directed, produced, animated, designed, written by: Signe Baumane
Cinematography: John Donnelly
Music: Kamala Sankaram
Sound: Grex Sextro/East West Audio
Voices: Pete Zarustica
More about
Dentist....
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Festivals and Awards:
Best Animation at Red Shift Film Festival, January 15, 2005, New York
Children's film program of
Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, France
Scheduled screenings:
February 8-26, 2005 Dentist has been invited to be part of
47th Annual Exhibition of Society of Illustrators, New York
Selected for:
- Animated Film Festival Bimini (Latvia)
- Florida Film Festival
- Garden State Film Festival
- Brooklyn International Film Festival
all in April, 2005
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Woman |
| 2002 |
10 min |
Rija Animated film studio, Latvia. |
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Woman is a visual poem about the creation of a
woman and her two ways of encountering a man. In one way
she has a potential to bring death to a man.
In the other she can give him her love.
It all depends on the man's actions.
A woman by herself is neither good nor evil.
Neither she is a passive object
of man's desires. It is all about interaction.
Woman comes from my own personal mythology but I believe that the images I
use are quite universal.
I wanted Woman to have a dreamlike quality. The images come from my own
dreams as well as from the dreams of all women I know.
Script, direction, design: Signe Baumane
Producer: Vilnis Kalnaellis
Camera: Janis Milbrets
Music: Olafs Stals
Sound: Anrijs Krenbergs
Principal animators: Ieva Smite, Taiga Zile, Dita Masena
More about Woman....
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Festivals:
Arsenals - Riga 16th International Film Forum, Florida Film
Festival 2003, Tehran International Animation Festival 2003, Taos Talking
Picture Festival 2003, 21st International Young Audience Film Festival Ale
Kino!(Poznan) 2003, First Latvian Animation Festival "Bimini", Brooklyn
International Film Festival 2003, ASIFA East Festival, Newport International
Film Festival 2003, Anima Mundi 2003 -International Animation Festival of
Brazil, 27th Open Air Film Fest Weiterstadt, Woodstock Film Festival 2003,
Red Bank International Festival 2003, Portland Independent Animation
Festival 2003, International Animated Film Festival KROK 2003, Boston
Underground Film Festival 2003, Cine Eco 2003 -Environmental International
Film and Video Festival (Portugal), ALTER-NATIVE 11. International Short
Film Festival (Romania) 2003, The Hamptons International Film Festival 2003,
Black Nights Film Festival (Estonia) 2003, Siena 8th International Short
Film Festival (Italy) 2003, Tindirindi 2003 - International Animated Film
Festival (Lithuania), FIKE 2003 - Evora International Short Film Festival
(Portugal), ALTER-NATIVE 11. International Short Film Festival (Romania)
2003, New York Exposition of Short Film and Video 2003, FIPA - Festival
International de Programmes Audiovisuelles (France) 2004, Victoria
Independent Film & Video Festival 2004 (Canada), Annapolis Reel Cinema
Festival 2004, 6th San Francisco Independent Film Festival 2004, Garden
State Film Festival 2004, Chlotrudis Awards Short Film Festival 2004,
Philadelphia Film Festival 2004, 23rd Black Maria Film & Video Festival
(Citation Selection) 2004
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Awards:
First Place at ASIFA East Festival, Kristaps Award (Latvian
equivalent of Oscars) for Best Design in Animated Films Category, Silver at
New York Exposition of Short Film and Video, First Place Award for Best Cell
Animation at 2nd Annual Garden State Film Festival
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Five Fucking Fables |
| 2002 |
7 min |
New York City |
5 separate, slightly immoral stories.
Synopsis: In the midst of fucking up there is always a place for Love.
Director, writer, designer, animator: Signe Baumane
Producer: John M. Donnelly, Lamplighter Productions
Camera: Josh Rechnitz
Sound: Josh Heineman
Editor: John M.Donnelly
Song: Natalie Standiford and Gregory Wilson
Title cards in order:
- The man who knew how to talk to flowers
- A drink
- On top of a bookshelf
- Give me your head
- Dare to eat
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Festivals:
Florida Film Festival 2002, Annecy 2002, Anima Mundi 2002 -
International Animation Festival of Brazil, SinCine-NY Erotic Film Festival
2002, Woodstock Film Festival 2002 , Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted
Animation Festival, San Francisco Independent Film Festival 2003, Cucalorus
Film Festival 2003, Las Vegas Erotic Festival 2003, Ann Arbor Film Festival
2003, "Another Connection" International Film Festival (Mediawave 2003) in
Hungary, International Competition of 15. Filmfest Dresden 2003, Garden
State film Festival 2003, XXI International Film Festival of Uruguay 2003,
Dead Center Film Festival (Oklahoma) 2003, Annapolis Reel Cinema Festival
2003, 27th Open Air Film Fest Weiterstadt 2003, Tel Aviv Festival for Comics
and Animation 2003, Bearded Child Film Festival 2003, Caroline's Comedy
Club, Giggles-Shorts - Toronto International Comedy Short Film Festival
2003, Boston Underground Film Festival 2003, Melbourne Underground Film
Festival 2003, International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated
Film 2003, 12.Short Film Festival in Augsburg 2003, International
Schwenninger Short Film Festival 2003, Shorts-Welcome Online Film Festival
(Germany) 2003, Animadrid 2003, Sex On Screen Festival (Volume 3) 2004,
Annapolis Reel Cinema Festival 2004, 12th Stuttgart International Festival
of Animated Film 2004, Philadelphia Film Festival 2004, Selected for the
program Best of International Animation 2003/2004, 6th Wiesbaden
International Weekend of Animation, L'Etrange Festival Short Film
Competition 2004, Long Island Film Festival 2004, The First Sundays Film
Festival - The Very Best of Short Comedy Films 2004, Coney Island Film
Festival 2004, 2nd Urban Literature Film Festival 2004, I Castelli Animati
2004 (Italy), The Black Nights Film Festival 2004 (Estonia)
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Awards:
Special Jury Award at Woodstock Film Festival, Honorable Mention at
Boston Underground Film Festival, Jury Award at The First Sundays Film
Festival - The Very Best of Short Comedy Films 2004, Best Animation Award at
Coney Island Film Festival 2004
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Natasha |
| 2001 |
10 min |
New York City |
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Conceived and rendered with
partner Josh Rechnitz, a story about a neglected housewife who falls in love
with a vacuum cleaner.
Writing, directing, design, animation: Signe Baumane
More about Natasha....
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Festivals:
Florida Film Festival 2001, Intl. Animated Film Festival KROK
2001, New York Animation Festival 2001, Dokfestival Leipzig 2001, Intl.
Independent Brussels Film Festival 2001, San Francisco Independent Film
Festival 2002, Goteborg Film Festival 2002, Victoria Independent Film and
Video Festival 2002, Oporto International Film Festival/Fantasporto 2002,
Fayetteville Film Festival 2002, Chlotrudis Awards Short Film Festival 2002,
Taos Talking Picture Festival 2002, XX International Film Festival of
Uruguay 2002, Nashville Independent Film Festival 2002, Brooklyn
International Film Festival 2002, World Festival of Animated Films - Zagreb
2002, Red Bank International Film Festival 2002, SinCine-NY Erotic Film
Festival 2002, Marco Island Film Festival 2002, Cucalorus Film Festival
2003, Rencontres Audiovisuelles 2003, AniFest 2003 Trebon, SwissAm Film
Festival 2003, Annapolis Reel Cinema Festival 2003, Garden State Film
Festival 2003, Rooftop Films (NY) 2003, 27th Open Air Film Fest Weiterstadt
2003, Tel Aviv Festival for Comics and Animation 2003, Bearded Child Film
Festival 2003, Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Festival 2003, International
Schwenninger Short Film Festival 2003 ALTER-NATIVE 11. International Short
Film Festival (Romania) 2003, 2nd Urban Literature Film Festival 2004
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Awards:
Second Place at Caroline's Comedy Club Funny Shorts Festival
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The Threatened One |
| 1999 |
4 min |
New York City |
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An animated, visual
interpretation of the poem by Jorge Luis Borges.
A Man has fallen in Love with a Woman and he laments that the whole world
that used to matter to him now is gone. There only one being in this life
that now that truly matters.
Direction, design, animation, storyboard: Signe Baumane
Script: J.L. Borges
Music, sound: David Rovin
Camera: Gary Becker
More about The Threatened One....
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Festivals:
California Sun Animated Film Festival 2000, Florida Film Festival
2000, Long Island Film Festival 2000, Bambershoot - One Reel Film Festival
2000, Arsenals International Film Festival 2000, New York Expo 2000, 2nd
ZEBRA Poetry Film Award 2004, Portland Independent Animation Festival 2004
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Awards:
Silver at Worldfest - Houston Film Festival 2000, Robbie Burns
Award at Cin(e) Poetry Festival 2000, Jury Award at 34th New York Exposition
of Short Film and Video 2000
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Love Story |
| 1998 |
3 min |
New York City |
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A story about the separation of love and sex.
Script, design, and animation: Signe Baumane
Camera: Gary Becker
Music: Davis Rovin
More about Love Story....
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Festivals:
22nd Göteborg Film Festival, Sweden,1999, Oslo Animation
Festival, Norway, 1999, Fantasporto International Film Festival,
Portugal, 1999, ASIFA-East 1999 Animation Festival, Los Angeles Independent
Film Festival 1999, Wine Country Film Festival 1999, Fantoche, Switzerland,
1999, Openair Film Festival Weiterstadt, Germany 1999, Bambershoot - One
Reel Film Festival 1999, KROK - 99 International Film Festival,
Ukraine, 1999, Festival Cortometraje de Santiago, Chile, 1999, Festival
International du Film Indépendent Brussels,1999, Black Nights Film Festival,
Estonia,1999, International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of
Bilbao,1999, Minneapolis International Film Festival 1999, Florida Film
Festival 1999, International Leipzig Film Festival, Germany, 1999, Arsenals
International Film Festival, Latvia, 2000, Argos Project - the Swiss Tour
Underground Film Festival, Switzerland, 2000, Tel Aviv Festival for Comics
and Animation 2003
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Awards:
First award in category of animated films at Montevideo
International Film Festival, Uruguay,1999, Best animated short at '99 Long
Island Film Festival, Bronze Award at Worldfest-Houston International Film
Festival, 1999
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The Gold Of The Tigers |
| 1995 |
21 min |
Dauka Animation Studio, Riga, Latvia |
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A Borges-like tale about tigers that
switch the customary places of dream and reality.
Script, design, and direction.
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Festivals:
Nordic Light Film Festival, Lithuania, 1995, Burgsvik Film
Festival, Sweden, 1995
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Tiny Shoes |
| 1993 |
10 min |
Dauka Animation Studio, Riga, Latvia |
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A modern Freudian fairy tale about a girl, her
father, a prince, and a dragon.
Script, design, and direction: Signe Baumane
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Festivals:
Arsenals International Film Festival, Latvia, 1994, Nordic Light
Film Festival, Finland,1994, Turku International Womenıs Film Festival,
Finland,1994, Zagreb International Animated Film Festival , Croatia, 1994,
Vilnius International Womenıs Film Festival, Lithuania, 1994, Ottawa
International Animated Film Festival, Canada, 1994, KROK International
Animated Film Festival, Ukraine, 1993.
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Awards:
Grand Prix recipient at Minsk International Womenıs Film Festival,
Belarus, 1995
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The Witch And The Cow |
| 1991 |
2 min |
Dauka Animation Studio, Riga, Latvia |
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A tiny witch tries to milk an
immense cow. Things get out of control.
Script, design , and direction: Signe Baumane
More about The Witch and the Cow....
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Festivals:
KROK International Animated Film Festival, Ukraine, 1993, Arsenals
International Film Festival, Latvia, 1992, Bratislava International Film
Festival, Slovakia, 1991.
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Exhibitions |
- 1995: Meeting of Images, Visby, Sweden
- 2004: Toon Town : Comic and Cartoon Art in New York City,
New York, USA
- 2005: 47th Annual Exhibition of Society of Illustrators,
New York, USA
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