Part One of the Oobieland Series. Using hand-painted film, animation and an inventive soundtrack, Introduction to Oobieland is an exploration of gateways: a repeated series of movements from the familiar and safe to the unknown and dangerous. Cycles are left incomplete. Chases are never consummated, the day ends with no promise of rebirth. In this way the film touches on our oldest instincts, leaving us saddened and scared by the knowledge of a world that will never know freedom through the completion of action, safety through the sanctification of place. - W.U.