First Place and Audience Choice: “Swim to the Surface”
From the big bang to ancient Greece to the age of the internet. An animated film by Chloe Nelson, Ellie Schmidt, and Grace Zarah, set to the music of Arcade Fire.
Team: Holy Camoley Studios
Leader: Ellie Schmidt
Second Place: “The Year of the Beard”
As part of a bet, Cory (the beard guy) grew out his beard for a year and took one photo a day. This film won 2nd place and has become a YouTube sensation!
Team: Time Warp Team
Leader: Cory Fauver
Third Place and Best Performer: “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, College Edition”
Nothing seems to work out for Alexander, who dreams of being in Australia rather than the blustery Minnesota cold. This film won 3rd place and Nicholas Roberts won best actor for his performance.
Team: KER Productions
Leader: Kaitlin Randolph
Most Carleton: “Ask-A-SWA: A Tale of Love”
A SWA and her resident fall in love, but things don’t work out as planned. This film won the award for Most Carleton.
Team: Are You Lonely?
Leader: Asiya Gaildon
Chicken
A game of “chicken” that goes too far.
Team: LNT
Leader: Devin Holewinski
Suzy Creamcheese, Honey, What’s Got Into Ya?/A Beard
Two short (and seemingly unrelated) films in one.
Team: Mantra for Healing
Leader: Henry Moskowitz
Between Now and Sunday
Burying their pet rabbit brings up lots of other memories for siblings May and Aaron.
Team: The Highway Night Walkers
Leader: Nicolas Roberts
Faculty Club Can’t Handle Me Right Now
A Carleton remix of Flo Rida and David Guetta’s hit, complete with boom boxes and shades.
Team: JC and the Crazy Cohns
Leader: Anschel Burk
Junk
An artist makes a statement with her favorite junk food.
Team: Dan McAlister and the Freshmen he Kidnapped
Leader: Dan McAlister
Sociophobia and You
“Can you trust your roommate?” Billy decides that it’s safer to run away from college than to live with a banana-eating stranger.
Team: Team McNaughty Pictures®
Leader: Jacob McNaughton
Strangled
A woman is told that she will die at the hands of the Rice County Strangler and hires a private investigator to follow her in hopes of catching the criminal.
Team: Machine of Death
Leader: Sam Dunnewold
The Noisy Neighbors
A girl’s studying is interrupted by strange noises coming from the room next door.
Team: Film Floor Studios
Leader: Fay Li
Escape the Room
A gamer finally manages to beat Level 1 and escape the room, only to find himself trapped on Level 2.
Team: Carleton Film Floor
Leader: John O’Neill
A Network of Lines that Enlace
A visiting professor is unable to resist the urge to answer a ringing telephone in an empty house, but instantly regrets his decision.
Team: Team Markwalter
Leader: Kyle Markwalter
On Air
A story of unrequited love, KRLX style.
Team: An Aesthetic Discourse
Leader: Christopher Burt
Sequence 1
A Lynchian meditation on mortality. And drinking. Or something like that.
Team: DrunkDance Films
Leader: Max Silver
Mother Magdalene
“I’ve come here every Friday to witness the oration.”
Team: The Immaculately Conceived
Leader: Pablo Leon-Luna
Walkin’ in Sayles
A lip-dub to the 1983 hit song “Walkin’ on Sunshine” by Katrina and the Waves
Team: Bounce Productions
Leader: Allie Sterling
Pointless Fight Scene
A pointless fight scene.
Team: Black Hole
Leader: Josh Kirschenbaum
El Pato Onírico
A duck gets into a car accident and has hallucinations of a vicious rabbit.
Team: The Claymators
Leader: Julio Rodriguez