Ben Richardson's Seed

August 15, 2012 Team Beasts

*** WINNER Best Animated Short Slamdance 2010 *** An egg and an apple build competing broadcast towers that vie for the attention of a transistor radio. With its complex characterization and narrative of animal evolution, competition and reproduction, SEED is a beautiful and sinister stop-motion story about the struggle to survive. Directed & Animated by Ben Richardson & Daniel Bird Produced by Josh Hetzler Story by Daniel Bird Cinematography by Ben Richardson www.seed-movie.com www.benrichardson.com twitter.com/benrichardson www.danielbird.net Check out Ben's Sundance 2012 feature debut as cinematographer at www.beastsofthesouthernwild.com

Beasts of the Southern Wild Cinematographer Ben Richardson co-directed and co-animated this 2010 short film with Daniel Bird, wherein an egg and an apple vie for the attention of a transistor radio.

Benh Zeitlin's Egg

August 13, 2012 Team Beasts

EGG (2004) Directed by Benh Zeitlin. A pea-sized pirate quests to slay a villainous Egg yolk in this stop-motion animated retelling of Herman Melville's Moby Dicks. A microscopic tale of epic tragedy. "Egg" was Benh's senior thesis film at Wesleyan. From there it went on to win a Grand Jury prize for Best Animated Short at the Slamdance Film Festival in 2005. It was filmed in part on the squash courts of Wesleyan, the location which gave its name to our filmmaking collective!

Benh Zeitlin's first FIRST film is a 9 minute stop-motion animation adaptation of Herman Melville's Moby Dick. The film, another Court 13 production, premiered at the 2005 Slamdance Film Festival.

Ray Tintori's Death to the Tinman

August 8, 2012 Team Beasts

http://youtu.be/hOyLeuFN4z8 Ray Tintori is the mad genius who transformed baby pigs into mythical Aurochs for Beasts. Tintori and the Court 13 crew made Death to the Tin Man in 2007 as his undergraduate thesis film for Wesleyan University's Film Studies program. The film is an epic Southern adaptation of the Tin Man's origin story from the Wizard of Oz.

Glory At Sea

July 26, 2012 Team Beasts

A group of mourners and a man spat from the depths of Hades build a boat from the debris of New Orleans to rescue their lost loved ones trapped beneath the sea. Winner Best Short Film, New Orleans Film Festival 2008; winner of the Wholphin Award, SXSW Film Festival 2008. This was the short film by Court 13, directed by Benh Zeitlin, created in 2007 and birthed in 2008, that directly preceded the development and production of "BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD" -- winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize (2012), and the Cannes Film Festival's Camera d'Or (2012). For more on Court 13: http://www.court13.com For more on "BEASTS" -- where it's coming when, and how to get involved: http://www.beastsofthesouthernwild.com And for a look inside the Bathtub, as featured in "BEASTS": http://welcometothebathtub.com

"A group of mourners and a man spat from the depths of Hades build a boat from the debris of New Orleans to rescue their lost loved ones trapped beneath the sea."

Director Benh Zeitlin's first film, Glory At Sea (2008), is a magical and mythic 25-minute short -- also shot in New Orleans by the Court 13 independent film-making army.

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