Become the alien in this award-winning animated short, and witness an ancient shamanic ritual from the outer realms of time and space.
WINNER of 34 official selections and 11 international film festival awards:
- Animation Studio Festival, France (Finalist)
- Clones Film Festival, Ireland (Finalist)
- New Generation Film Festival, Serbia (Finalist)
- 4th Dimension Independent Film Festival, Bali Indonesia (Finalist)
- Paradox International Short Film Festival, India (Finalist)
- Flicker's Rhode Island International Film Festival, USA (Semi-Finalist)
- Stockholm City Film Festival, Sweden (Semi-Finalist)
- Sound And Vision International Film & Tech Festival, NYC (Winner)
- Port Blair International Film Festival, India (Special Jury Award)
- Royal Society of Television & Motion Picture Awards, India
- IndieX Film Fest, L.A. (Best Animation Short; Best Sound Design)
- Assurdo Film Festival, Italy (Best Animation)
- Five Continents International Film Festival, Venezuela (Best Animated Short)
- Prague International Film Festival, Czech Republic (Best Animated Short)
- Rome Prisma Film Awards, Italy (Best Animated Short, Monthly)
- Screen Culture International Film Festival, London (Best Animated Short)
- Halicarnassus Film Festival, Turkey (Best Short Animation Film)
- Drawtastic "Golden Pencil Awards", [online] (Quarter-Finalist)
- AniMate - Australia Animation Film Festival (Quarter-Finalist)
- Indie Short Fest, L.A. (Nominee)
- Big Apple Film Festival, NYC (Honorable Mention)
- Cyprus International Film Festival "Golden Aphrodite"
- Another Hole in the Head Film Festival, USA
- Grand Junction Film Festival, USA
- Hallucinea Film Festival, Paris
- Vesuvius International Film Fest, Italy
- Pasto International Film Festival, Colombia
- Berlin Indie Film Festival, Germany
- Golden Short Film Festival, Italy
- New York City Independent Film Festival, USA
- Experimental Film Guanajuato, Mexico
- Mindfield Film Festival - Albuquerque, USA
- Montreal International Animation Film Festival ANIMAZE, Canada
- Sapporo International Short Film Festival, Japan
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Directed & Produced by Kipp T. Jarden [ http://ktjstudios.com ]
Animation / Illustration / Layout / Sound Design - Kipp T. Jarden
A KTJ Studios Production
Music by -
Kipp T. Jarden [producer]
Vari Musicisti Orchestra:
Ruth Tumpalan [violin]
Allen Weakland [violin]
Allyson Clare [viola]
James Celestino [cello]
Roosevelt Porter [double bass]
Arlene Keiser [flute]
Nancy Horowitz [flute]
Kristen Butcher [oboe, english horn]
Carly Baker [oboe]
Sarah Koop McCoy [clarinet]
Allison Nicotera [bassoon]
Denis Volodichev [french horn]
Rob Keiser [piano, conductor]
Tim Motzer [recording engineer] - https://1krecordings.com/
Alex Kozmidi - https://soundcloud.com/alexkozmidi
Voices -
Kipp T. Jarden
Tiago Almeida
Yasaman Sadeghi
Vika Shapkina
Ricardo Salazar
Matthew Beck
Pedram Baghbanian
Marina Smothers
Faces -
Desiree Major
Niraj Shah
Justo Paul
Patricia Jarden
Richards Jarden
Matt Zangen
Zach Boldyga
Space photography courtesy of NASA:
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/index.html
2D frames drawn & animated with Krita:
https://krita.org/