Chris Harding did a long-ish interview with a local Kansas City arts and entertainment publication called PRESENT Magazine.

It’s kind of long, because Chris Harding does not know how to be concise. It’s also much more serious and pretentious sounding than was intended, but the interviewer asked pretty good questions. So, go… read… skim… enjoy… Chris Harding’s very bad attempts at answering questions about independent animated shorts.

LINK HERE

Learn Self Defense is now available as part of the Shorts! Volume 4 DVD collection, which is published by the Colorado Film Foundation. It contains 3 hours of award winning independent shorts, both live-action and animation.

Each film is accompanied by 2 ridiculous, superfluous commentary tracks. Learn Self Defense has a story commentary about the ideas behind the film, and a technical commentary discussing how the film was physically made, removing all mystery and wonder from the process. Both also include introductions by Chris Harding’s mom, which are really the highlights of each track.

You can order the DVD straight from the Film Festival Collection website, or you can also order it at amazon.com.