Comedy Aid 2013

That's Life Life is hard for Chris (Yousef Al-Waeli) until he sees Joker and turns his frown upside down.

Nekrokosm A phantasmagorical fantasy nightmare set deep within a strange galaxy where two lovers are torn apart as they try to survive a malevolent invasion.

Ten: The Magic Number An amusing introduction to the metric system, presented through the person of George, a tropical fish fancier who is stymied in estimating the weight of his aquarium because he doesn't remember what a cubic inch of water weighs in ounces. How he is jolted into the metric age, and how he discovers its advantages, makes an amusing cartoon screen adventure for anyone who sees George's problem but, like him, resists the idea of change to a simpler way of figuring the size and weight of things.

Sports Challenge A comic cartoon, without commentary, showing that not everyone who rises to the challenge of sport can be sure of success. Pictured is a man with middle-aged flab who tackles the whole range of contemporary sports--swimming, bicycling, golfing, gymnastics, jogging--with great eagerness but equal ineptitude. At a time when physical fitness is much on the public mind, Sports Challenge is a friendly warning that fitness is not necessarily an inborn trait.

Nbule... In this animated film a black line becomes a magic cord to serve a small child's fancy. In Nébule's hands it becomes whatever he wills--a hoop to roll, a spring to jump on, a tight-rope, a dog, or a bird. The metamorphoses, played out against soft, pastel-coloured backgrounds, encompass all the world of a child's fears and fancies.

86 & Lex Two displaced ex lovers navigate the lonely streets of New York City in search for a definition to describe what their relationship once was.

Chari Gets Married A filmed gipsy wedding.

The Chain Rebecca (Ava Smout) recruits her siblings, Russell (Noah Herbers) & James (Jason Kinnear), to plan a heist against her estranged father (Dane Manrell), stealing money to pay for their college tuition.

Young Braves "A brief account of a city gang, it is praised in the museum's program notes for capturing “the joie de vivre and the prankishness of teen‐age boys.” But since the joie de vivre comes from sniffing glue and the prankishness includes mugging adults, destroying property and knifing one teen‐ager and then running away, I must conclude that one man's happiness is another man's horror, and I stick to my own sour reading." - Roger Greenspun, New York Times review, October 19, 1971

Le bleu perdu An animated cartoon envisaging the kind of world that children of the future may well inherit when the last vestige of blue is blotted from the sky by the spreading mantle of smog. In this story a little boy sets out, equipped with celestial wings, to discover whether what an old man has told him is actually true, that there is blue above the grey. When he finds it he concludes that blue is where paradise is; the grimy earth is the netherworld.