Festivals
Festival international du court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand - 2020
Festival international du film d'animation d'Annecy - 2020
Busan International Short Film Festival - 2020
A stop motion animated skeleton, once a formidable villain of the silver screen and now a struggling actor, takes drastic measures when he learns the film for which he was created is being rebooted without him.
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Michael Shanks
Direction & Screenplay
Michael’s first ever foray into filmmaking took the grand prize at the 2008 Escapist Film Festival. In the fallout, he got a job with the company directing the American-produced Web Series Doomsday Arcade.
Since then, he’s launched his popular YouTube channel Timtimfed which features a variety of high concept film and comedy content, and has over 45,000,000 online hits.
He’s won various awards for his work in Music Videos, from directing clips of his own band to more recent work with artists such as Guy Pearce.
He wrote, directed, starred in, composed the music, and did the VFX for The Wizards of Aus, a half-hour comedy series for Australia’s SBS about a wizard who leaves the magical realm to seek a quiet life in the boring suburbs of Melbourne, only to have his arch-nemesis follow him and make his new life hell.
His inventive sci-fi short film Time Trap has been viewed 2.7 million times on YouTube and is being turned into a feature by Hopscotch and eOne.
Original Title
Rebooted
Duration
12 MIN
Language
- without dialogue
Country
Australia
Direction
Michael Shanks
Animation
Samuel Lewis
Music
Michael Shanks
Cinematographer
Gerald Thompson
Screenplay
Michael Shanks
Producer
Nicholas Colla, Chris Hocking