PROJECT

experimental films

A behind-the-scenes look at production excerpts from select award-winning short film projects.

This collection showcases remaining production and promotional material from short films created between 2000-2003. During this period more than a dozen experimental projects were produced in a variety of formats, including 8mm & 16mm color and black/white film, traditionally drawn and stop-motion animation, and CGI and digital mediums. While the genre of these films ranged from satire and fantasy to the purely abstract, an influence of literary references and the use of stylized cinematography characterized the majority of the projects.

The dialogue-free short films Gravity’s Rainbow and Iron Tonic – respectively inspired by the works of Thomas Pynchon and Edward Gorey – received domestic and international recognition for their visual storytelling techniques and garnered Tihany financial and technical grants from The Eastman Kodak Company, introduction to the American Society of Cinematographers, and inclusion in the Emerging Filmmakers Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival.

Unfortunately, owing largely to poor conservation preparations, the analog and digital masters for most of the original films were either degraded or lost. However, some design material, storyboards, and a partially reassembled animatic remained intact and are featured here in acknowledgment of that body of work.

design & production