Strange Animals
United States, 10 mins
An eccentric artist with a broken arm and a dog in critical condition is forced to rely on the only person available, the man she slept with the night before who's facing a crisis of his own.
Writer/Director: Robert Locke Jones
Producer: Anthony Nicolau
Director of Photography: Andrew Trost
Editor: Jordan Anstatt
Composer: David Rothbaum
Cast: Ben Michael Brown, Mitzi Akaha
Contact: Robert Locke Jones, rlj2133@columbia.edu
Virtual Screening
Thursday, May 11, 2023
Program G
Sunday, May 14th at 5pm ET
About the Writer/Director
Robert Jones lives in the high-desert, mountain city of Santa Fe. He earned a BA in Film Studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara and has worked in radio at KCSB, fine arts, commercials, theatre, and independent film. In 2018 Jones began his MFA in Film at Columbia University, with a concentration in Screenwriting. He is winner of the Artist Fellowship Award from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism and his film Play War won the Desert Sun Award at Palm Springs International ShortFest and Best of Trés Courts at Festival International des Trés Courts. Additionally, his film The Raft won a Festival Director's Award for Best Young Actor in a Short Film at the Woods Hole Film Festival.