2018 - The Year in Review - Completed Films

A very productive and successful year here at Rusty Bolt and Seat of the Pants! 

  I guess you could say I'm making up for lost time, coming to filmmaking very late in life.
Read on:

FILMS COMPLETED IN 2018 

 (clicking titles will whisk you away to their Vimeo pages)

Essentially Alys (January 2018): (9:59)  "A unique and curious little being has some interesting encounters as she embarks on a quest to find answers to the BIG questions in this humorous animated mixed-media short adventure."

Requiem for the Lost (January 2018): (1:00 micro-short) "A visual/musical elegy to those seafarers lost throughout history on voyages of discovery. Mixed-media animation."

Meanwhile in Another Part of the Forest (February 2018): (1:30 micro-short) "...or a dream within The Dream. While working late one night on "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Shakespeare tries to sort out the hitherings and thitherings of some of his characters and comes up with a way to give them a happy ending. Super-short mixed-media animated comedy"

Ephemeral  (March 2018): (1:29 micro-short) "...a visual poem to carbon-based life. A brief through-composed abstract animated/musical meditation on the fleeting quality of life as we know it and the carbon cycle on which it is based."

Live from Studio 2B (April 2018): (2:51) "Yorick (yes, THAT Yorick) reminisces about his many adventures as he and Hamlet reunite on the latter's talk show. A humorous animated take on the relationship between the two characters."

Moonflower (April 2018): (1:19 micro-short) "Micro short animation drawing inspiration from 16th and 17th century botanical and scientific print details, with original music."

Aria  (May 2018): (1:00 micro-short) "A micro-short animated interpretation of the Handel aria “Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa” from the oratorio "Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno" (1707), “Aria” evokes a feeling of nostalgic loss and the need to seize the moment in the face of the inevitable passage of Time (a rough translation of the first line of the aria is "leave the thorn, take the rose"). My version of the music is purely instrumental; Handel originally wrote this as an instrumental sarabande and would later reuse the beautiful aria melody in his opera "Rinaldo"."

And She Rode Forth....(July 2018): (2:47) "A Bard recounts the tale of the Archetypal Heroine, called forth by necessity to begin her journey and fulfill her destiny; a retelling of the archetypal "Hero's Journey", influenced by the work of Joseph Campbell. A silhouette animation, this is a "song without words", the tale being told solely through visuals and instrumental music."

AND, the web series featuring Yorick (17 of 21 epsiodes completed with 6 up and streaming by year's end). Link will take you to the website for the series.

22 Bones, a web series 
"22 Bones, the Adventures of Yorick, a Skull" follows the exploits of an engaging and inventive skull and his unbelievably oddball crew of benevolent pirates as they navigate their way through some rather interesting situations. Off-kilter and quirky, the micro-short (1-4 minute) weekly animated episodes are chock-full of geeky anachronistic fun!