ARBOXIAN is an award-winning short film following the homeword journey of a crashed Marboxian Raider. Over a year in the making, Marboxian has been animator Matthew Rasmussen's festival circuit premier.
"Finally, my Woods Hole discovery: Matthew I. Rasmussen's Marboxian, a mini-masterpiece of animation done via Photoshop on a Macintosh by its Brookline filmmaker. A creature from the far planet of Marbox lands in the wrong universe and, E.T. fashion, struggles to go home. The graphics are amazingly inventive, and Hollywood should come courting: Rasmussen could be the best designer of title sequences since Saul Bass."
---Gerald Peary, Boston Phoenix
The film features an original score by composer Oren R. Robinson. All animation and effects were done in Hash Inc.'s Animation:Master 8.5, with textures in Photoshop 5.5, and final edit and track matte compositing in Premier 6.5. This page will feature updates, articles and links on the project.
...not to mention a few little surprises.
And, though the shadow of a sigh
May tremble through the story...
It shall not touch, with breath of bale
The pleasance of our fairy-tale.
~Dodgson
NEWS:
6. 3. 04 : Yay! Marboxian can now be viewed online at Hash Inc.'s A:M Films web site. Requires QuickTime, and you may be prompted to download the On2 VP3 codec. Props to Ken Baer at Hash.
4. 2. 04 : Screening Tuesday, April 8 at Brookline's landmark Coolidge Corner Theater, along with shorts by three other new and salt-worthy area filmmakers. For some reason, the program is called "Young Guys With Tight Shorts," but we'll just pass over that odd fact.
3. 24. 04 : A random Google search turns up the fact that we've won Best Animation at California's Globalfest 2003, which is weird, because it's the first I've heard about it. My confused email inquiry has yet to be returned. More info to come...
12. 9. 03 : "Marboxian" in the Big Apple. Film screens in the International Festival of Cinema and Technology.
11. 25. 03 : Honorable mention in the BUFF. (No vibrating bunny, but thank you.)
9. 26. 03 : Film screens at the Boston Underground Film Festival.
8. 19. 03 : Sterling words from Gerald Peary, movie critic of the Boston Phoenix. See left.
8. 3. 03 : "Marboxian" takes home the Audience Choice Award for Best Short: Animation, at the 2003 Woods Hole Film Festival. Many thanks to the festival organizers, the great filmmakers in attendance, and especially to the audience. (May I not be the next A-Ha.)
7. 31. 03 : Film will be screening at the Ottawa Student Animation Festival, October 16-19, at the National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, ON.
6. 19. 03 : "Marboxian" to premier at the Woods Hole Film Festival. Date and time coming soon. Oren, the Marboxian and I are very excited.
5. 16. 03 : Work-in-progress copy submitted to the Woods Hole Film Festival in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.