Interregnum

Interregnum is based on the extraordinary career of René Carmille, history's first known computer hacker. It's not commonly known that the government of Nazi-occupied France launched a ghastly and unprecedented experiment in information science: much of the Vichy bureaucracy, including the operation of the death camps, was automated with punch-card computers. However, the technology was so new that the Nazis didn't understand its potential vulnerabilities...

Second Place, Best Animated Short, Palm Springs International ShortFest, 2011