Sunday, April 25, 6:30pm  and Thursday, May 6th, 5:00pm

The Cartoon Art Museum is proud to copresent the animated shorts program The High Line at the 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival (April 22-May 6).

The High Line
This program of experimental and narrative short works presents stop motion, hand-drawn, rotoscope and computer-generated animation by leading and up-and-coming practitioners, including Rodrigo Blass, Martha Colburn, Lewis Klahr, Kerry Laitala and the Academy Award–winning work of H5.

This program screens on Sunday, April 25 at 6:30 pm and Thursday, May 6 at 5:00 pm at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas. More information on The High Line at http://fest10.sffs.org/films/film_details.php?id=35.

For tickets and more information on SFIFF53, visit sffs.org http://fest10.sffs.org

More on SFIFF53:
The 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF53) returns April 22-May 6 with more than 100 unique programs of the finest independent, documentary and international cinema, combining a range of marquee premieres, international competitions, digital media work and star-studded gala events into the best two weeks of the year. The Festival will honor film icons including Robert Duvall and Roger Ebert, open with Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s dazzling caper Micmacs, feature the original score and live performance of Stephin Merritt to the silent epic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, celebrate a comedic legend on Closing Night with the documentary Joan Rivers – A Piece of Work, with Rivers in attendance—and so much more. For tickets and information, visit visit sffs.org http://fest10.sffs.org or call 925-866-9559.

Other SFIFF53 films of interest:

An Evening with Don Hertzfeldt
Friday, April 23
7:30 PM pm Sundance Kabuki Cinemas

The 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival is proud to present the Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award to Academy Award-nominated short filmmaker Don Hertzfeldt for his unique contributions to animation. Over a long career, Hertzfeldt has remained fiercely independent by sticking to short format and challenging the boundaries of his craft. The popularity of his work is unprecedented in the world of short animation and his films are frequently referenced in pop culture. Hertzfeldt will be presented with the award and participate in an onstage interview at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas. The shorts program Life, Death and Very Large Utensils , a collection of short films, past and present, is set to follow.

More information at http://fest10.sffs.org/awards/don_hertzfeldt.php.

My Dog Tulip
Directed by Paul Fierlinger & Sandra Fierlinger
Increasingly cynical about the world of human affairs in postwar England, a middle-aged man finds, by adopting a dog, the utter devotion that was missing from his human relationships, in this simultaneously touching and explicitly earthy animated feature.

The film screens Saturday, April 24 at 2:00 pm, Sunday April 25 at 6:00 pm and Tuesday , April 27 at 4:15 pm at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas; and Saturday, May 1 at 8:50 pm at the Pacific Film Archive. Tickets and more information at http://fest10.sffs.org/films/film_details.php?id=58.