Bartleby

An unassuming Wall Street lawyer finds himself beset by a new employee, Bartleby, who refuses to work - in an ongoing act of passive refusal, he simply 'prefers not to.' A quiet, dogged battle of wills ensues in this stop-motion reimagining of a Melville classic.

  • Laura Naylor
    Director
    The Fix, Duck Beach
  • Kristen Kee
    Director
  • Laura Naylor
    Writer
    The Fix, Duck Beach
  • Kristen Kee
    Writer
  • Amanda Ely
    Producer
    Cadaver
  • Laura Naylor
    Producer
    The Fix, Duck Beach
  • Project Type:
    Animation
  • Runtime:
    10 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    January 1, 2017
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Aspen Shortsfest
  • Sarasota Film Festival
  • MONTREAL INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL
  • ANIMA MUNDI
  • NANTUCKET FILM FESTIVAL
  • PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL SHORTSFEST
  • SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Director Biography - Laura Naylor, Kristen Kee

Laura fell for images, moving and not-so-mobile, while studying art at Columbia. Her directorial debut, Duck Beach -- a feature doc about Mormon singles trying to tie the knot -- premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival and aired on BBC 3 in the UK. Her second feature, The Fix, premiered at AFI Docs, won the jury prize for Best Documentary at SIFF, and was pegged a “poignant portrait of life in recovery” by The Hollywood Reporter.

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