ELEVATOR WORLD


Director, Writer, Animator: Mitchell Rose

Sound Design: Scott Lehrer

Awards:

– Grand Prize for Best Short, Slamdance
– First Prize, Florida Film Festival
– First Prize, WorldFest Flagstaff
– First Prize, North by Northwest
– First Prize, Ojai Film Festival
– First Prize, Media Masters Digital Film Festival
– Second Prize, South by Southwest
– Second Prize, WorldFest Houston
– Second Prize, New Orleans Film & Video Festival
– Second Prize, Sidewalk Film Festival
– Third Prize, Hamburg International Short Film Festival
– Jury Award, New York Exposition of Short Films

Other Festival Screenings:

Slamdance On-the-Road in Cannes
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Seattle International Film Festival
Street Film Festival (Milan)
SIGGRAPH
Short Shorts Film Festival (Japan)
L.A. International Short Film Festival
Mill Valley Film Festival
Cinequest
Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Palm Springs International Short Film Festival
Atlanta Film & Video Festival
Taos Talking Picture Festival
Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema
Maryland Film Festival
Nashville Independent Film Festival
Hamptons Comedy Festival
Interfilm Kurzfilmfestival Berlin
Multimedia Grand Prix 2000 Tokyo

Elevator World is distributed by Atom Films

Review excerpts:

“A computer masterpiece.”
— CBS Evening News (national)

“a wry, trenchant take on modern life”
— L.A. Weekly

“For anyone who would claim that you cannot make an amusing, effective, and professional short completely on computer, there is Elevator World… It's not only ground-breaking, it's funny as heck. Final Grade: A+ ”
— FileThirteen.com

“Everyone's well aware of the unspoken rituals of elevator riding… Now Mitchell Rose, in this elegant low key computer animated short, has committed those rules to film… as an anthropologist might study the mysterious rites of a long lost tribe… Rose's film not only makes the viewer think about this everyday routine, by extension it subtly drives home the larger point that mankind has evolved societal rituals for nearly every activity in which he partakes.”
— FilmThreat.com