| Directer: | JAMIE TRAVIS |
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| Countries: | Canada |
| Genre: | Dorama |
| Year: | 2003 - 2006 |
| Type: | Color |
| Language: | English |
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Jamie Travis’s darkly ironic comedies have established him as a filmmaker with a distinctive cinematic vision. His world is one of obsessions, phobias, hyper-designed settings and costumes, ‘de-psychologized’ characters, and songs of soothing sorrow and sentiment. Travis's body of work has drawn
consistent comparisons to filmmakers as disparate as Peter Greenaway,
Todd Solondz and Alfred Hitchcock.
- THE PATTERNS TRILOGY
Patterns (2005) RT: 8:40
Patterns 2 (2006) RT: 13:25
Patterns 3 (2006) RT: 18:25
Written and Directed by JAMIE TRAVIS Produced by A.J. BOND & JAMIE TRAVIS Starring COURTENAY WEBBER and CHRISTOPHER REDMAN
A woman waits by the phone. A man watches a teacup spin. Are they lovers? Yes, they are. Now let’s watch them sing and dance. A gorgeously styled, fabulously poppy triptych, The Patterns Trilogy is a singularly epic musical-thriller/anti-romance.
- The Saddest Boy in the World
(2006) RT: 13:00 Written and Directed by Jamie Travis Produced by Amy Belling and Jamie Travis with Benjamin B. Smith and Kirsten Robek
“Runaway pets, friendlessness and suburban complacency conspire against the young Timothy to make this, his ninth birthday, the worst year yet. Musical Chairs and birthday cake can't save him now The Saddest Boy in the World just about the most hilarious representation of childhood depression ever chronicled on film"-The Oregonian
- Why the Anderson Children Didn't Come to Dinner
(2003) RT: 16:30 Written and Directed by Jamie Travis Producered by A.J. Bond, Amy Belling and Jamie Travis with Patti Wotherspoon, Colton Boreen, Michael Kurliak, and Katherine Eaton
Travis’s first award-winning short tells the “gloriously surreal” story of three seven-year-olds forced to endure their mother’s culinary abuses. Anderson Children premiered at the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival and went on to play at over forty festivals worldwide, including South by Southwest and Slamdance. “This highly quirky dysfunctional family saga feels like a missing Wes Anderson short.” - Indiewire
Critical Acclaim:
“His shorts combine the macabre subject matter of David Lynch and Todd Solondz with the art direction of Wes Anderson. ” Ion Magazine
