DemiUrge Emesis

A mummified cat is tormented by the skeletons of past meals in this stop-motion short by MTV and Sci Fi Channel Station ID veteran, Aurelio Voltaire. Narrated by the great Danny Elfman!

This is the 4th film in Voltaire's "Chimerascope series" of short films.

Official Selection of these 2010 film festivals:


Stiff- Seattle True Independent Film Festival
Nickel International Film Festival
Fear No Film Festival
Animation Block Party
Animacursed
Sacramento Horror Film Festival
Atlanta Shorts Fest
Atlanta Underground Film Festival
Se-Ma-For Film Festival
Independents' Film Festival
The Indie Gathering
SoDak Animation Festival
Williamsburg International Film Festival
SoCal Independent Film Festival
Hell's Half Mile Film & Music Festival
Sydney Underground Film Festival
AniMazing Spotlight animation shorts festival
Famous Monsters of Filmland Film Festival
Chicago Horror Festival
Vampire Film Festival
Maelstrom International Fantastic Film Festival
Dragon*Con Independent Short Film Festival
Atlanta Horror Film Festival
Another Hole in the Head
Twin Rivers Media Festival
Sacramento Film and Music Festival
Spooky Movie International Horror Film Festival
Arizona Underground Film Festival
Coney Island Film Festival
The Thriller! Chiller! Film Festival
Brainwash Movie Festival
Eerie Horror Film Festival
3-Minute Film Fest
Fantasia Film Festival
Toronto After Dark
Oklahoma Horror film festival
Telluride Horror Show
Shriekfest
Screamfest LA Film Festival
Feak Show Film Festival
MotelX-Lisbon Horror film festival
IndieCreep 2010
MAniFest: Monterey Animation Fest
Terror Film Festival
H.P. Film Festival & CthulhuCon
Phoenix Fear Film Festival- Fearcon IV
International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival
Blacklist Fim and Arts Festival
ShockerFest International Film Festival
Flickers- Rhode Island International Horror Film Festival
Indie Memphis Film Festival
The Mile High Horror Film Festival
Syracuse Horror, Sci-Fi Fantasy Film Festival
South African HORRORFEST Film Festival
The New York City Horror Film Festival

2010 AWARDS:
Stiff- Seattle True Independent Film Festival AWARD: "Best Animated Film"
Fear No Film Festival AWARD: Fear No Filmmaker Award
Independents' Film Festival AWARD: Best Independent Animation
The Indie Gathering AWARD: 1st place Experimental Animation
Famous Monsters of Filmland Film Festival AWARD: 2nd Quarter Winner: Animated Film
Chicago Horror Festival AWARD: Best Experimental Film
Atlanta (Underground??) Horror Film Festival AWARD: Best Short Short
Arizona Underground Film Festival AWARD: Best Animation
Terror Film Festival: Honorable Mention in Filmmaking

2010 NOMINATIONS:
Chicago Horror Film Festival: nominated: best special effects
Oklahoma horror film festival: nominated: best animation
Dragoncon: nominated: best short short
Animazing Spotlight: nominated: Achievement in non-narrative animation
Syracuse Horror, Sci-Fi Fantasy Film Festival- Best Animated film
Terror Film Festival: nominated: Best Fantasy Short Film
Terror Film Festival: nominated: Best Sound Design
Terror Film Festival: nominated: Best Original Music Theme Song
Dark Carnival: nominated: Best Short Film
Dark Carnival: nominated: Best Director
Dark Carnival: nominated: Best Score

2011 FESTIVALS:
The 2011 Indy Horror Film Festival
Famous Monsters Imagi-Movie Festival
6º Cinefantasy- Sao Paulo, Brazil
2011 AWARDS
Famous Monsters- Imagi-Movies Film Fesitval: Best Animation

2011 FESTIVALS:
The 2011 Indy Horror Film Festival
Famous Monsters Imagi-Movie Festival

• Category

  Film & Animation

[Eridium Wolf]

What is the opening music? I can't find it.

[Aurelio Voltaire]

I wrote it for the film.

[SolitudesGrace]

Voltaire + Rasputina + Danny Elfman = Awesome!

[Buelde]

I love Danny Elfman's Voice :D

[Amy Soderstrom]

i agree that artists who put themselves out there live in a kind of purgatory

[thetrampoline ofdisco]

Voltaire, what did you use to make this mummified cat, i read you trained your self with a bit of foam rubber but that was all i found :l

[RichieTheTotodile]

If there's a DVD, I'm gonna buy it. |D

[Gamzette Makara]

just ate cauliflower smothered in cheese. looked just like the barf. i still laugh. Its beautifully done, every little bit about your shorts. They inspire me to turn to a new drawing style. hehe.

[Sicvicious]

awesome work Voltaire & Elfman! *so glad I can voice this* (I create animation myself, so it's cool to have a strange vocal scale lol)

[Josh Nelson]

Good sir, I find extreme comfort in knowing that someone out there who's made it in the world feels the same as I, and can convey it well enough to let one such as I relate. Bravo, Voltaire, bravo.

[Unfathomablesquid]

I watched this while eating a bowl of cereal. And enjoyed it.

[AmyLeerae]

I love the line about the critics and overall the creativity of this. ^_^