Program introduced by Chris Tashima (Actor, director,  Oscar® winner and Governor, Short Films Branch); Post-Screening Conversation with Jessica Sanders (Academy Award nominated filmmaker, Sing!), Shawn Christensen (Academy Award winning filmmaker) and Barbara Schock (Academy Award winning short film director and Head of Directing for the Graduate Film Program at NYU).

Selected by the Short Films Branch.

A quartet of short films with a connecting thread of music: The Oscar-winning short film The Music Box stars Laurel and Hardy as a pair of bumbling piano movers struggling to navigate a steep flight of Los Angeles steps. In the early Technicolor short The Band Concert, bandleader Mickey Mouse and flutist Donald Duck quarrel over their playlist. Sing! is an upbeat look at the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus from Oscar winner Freida Lee Mock (Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision) that was nominated for Documentary Short Subject. In Pixar’s Oscar-nominated short Boundin’, a young sheep copes with an unexpected loss with the help of a friendly jackalope.
 

The Music Box

DIRECTED BY: James Parrott. WITH: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy. 1932. 29 min. USA. B&W. English. 35mm. Print courtesy of ConstellationCenter Film Collection at the Academy Film Archive.

The Band Concert
DIRECTED BY: Wilfred Jackson. 1935. 9 min. USA. Color. English. DCP.

Sing!
DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Freida Lee Mock. 2001. 36 min. USA. Color. English. DCP.

Boundin’
DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Bud Luckey. WITH: Bud Luckey. 2004. 5 min. USA. Color. English. Rated G. 35mm. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.