Borrowing Time
Sep 26, 2010
(Web Crowell, USA, 2004, DV, 93 min)
Before he received the first Stranger Genius award for film, animator Web Crowell started his first feature Borrowing Time with a little help and love from Northwest Film Forum. Made on a shoestring, this epic about Victorian aliens, Atomic insects and all around outdated technology is a distillation of 1940s serial adventure films, complete with atomic insects, planes on string and the very theft of history itself. Borrowing played around the country and won Best Director, Best Editor (Joe Shapiro who later went on to edit Police Beat and Zoo), Best Visual Effects and Best Set Design at the Syracuse B Movie Festival.
Screens with
But Soft
(Britta Johnson, USA, 2006, 35mm, 2 min)
This short and sublime film about bird building nests was commissioned as part of our Signature Shorts series.