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Dentist
January, 2005 10 min. New York City
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

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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
 
Woman
2002 10 min Rija Animated film studio, Latvia.

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

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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

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

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
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)

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

Natasha
2001 10 min New York City
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

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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

Awards:

Second Place at Caroline's Comedy Club Funny Shorts Festival

The Threatened One
1999 4 min New York City
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

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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

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

Love Story
1998 3 min New York City
A story about the separation of love and sex.

Script, design, and animation: Signe Baumane
Camera: Gary Becker
Music: Davis Rovin

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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

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

The Gold Of The Tigers
1995 21 min Dauka Animation Studio, Riga, Latvia
A Borges-like tale about tigers that switch the customary places of dream and reality. Script, design, and direction.
Festivals:

Nordic Light Film Festival, Lithuania, 1995, Burgsvik Film Festival, Sweden, 1995

 
Tiny Shoes
1993 10 min Dauka Animation Studio, Riga, Latvia
A modern Freudian fairy tale about a girl, her father, a prince, and a dragon.

Script, design, and direction: Signe Baumane

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.

Awards:

Grand Prix recipient at Minsk International Womenıs Film Festival, Belarus, 1995

The Witch And The Cow
1991 2 min Dauka Animation Studio, Riga, Latvia

A tiny witch tries to milk an immense cow. Things get out of control.

Script, design , and direction: Signe Baumane

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Festivals: KROK International Animated Film Festival, Ukraine, 1993, Arsenals International Film Festival, Latvia, 1992, Bratislava International Film Festival, Slovakia, 1991.
 
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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Feburary 25, 2005