After the initial live event, the program will be available for on-demand viewing until 12am midnight EDT on 3/31 This program of recent animated films from near and far includes a secret diary; a serial killer and rapist; a girl dealing with insomnia; desktops, trash cans, and cursors; unwanted superpowers; a highly anticipated birthday; a small old house; a decomposing corpse; a violent struggle; and a springtime Brooklyn. Sponsor: Herbology

This is a secret diary of summer. The entire film is directly animated on time-stamped film, and the improvised painting traces are infinitely magnified through projection and scanning. Summertime collects the emotions that belong to each person’s unique taste and ferments them into small universes, and will eventually disappear with the touch of greenness at the last moment of summer.

Summer Summer

Just a Guy is an animated documentary film about love. Three women share glimpses of their affection, attraction, and relationship with Richard Ramirez—a serial killer and rapist they contacted after his conviction in the 1980s. Through their perspective, we revisit exchanged letters and emotions that are as obsessive as they are hauntingly familiar.<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/1f11ffec07087c05a4debc8e80535c55.png" width="200">

Just a Guy

Lessons From My Nightmares is a machine-learned film that follows the story of a girl dealing with insomnia due to compartmentalized thoughts and feelings. When she does sleep, she is haunted by nightmares.

Lessons From My Nightmares

The rigidity of a historical fact rolls by like clouds, or maybe like cloud computing. Digital landscapes like desktops, trash cans, and cursors flatten the sensation of what tangibly remains: the invisible pleasure of wind on skin.

The Wind

Somewhere in Eastern Europe due to an accident in a laboratory, the hero gains superpowers that he does not want. The hero does not want to be a superhero, to save the world from villains. He wants to live as before without changing anything. The situation is complicated by the fact that while he gains awareness of his power, it causes problems in his everyday life.

Naked

A highly anticipated birthday is the talk of the town.

Thank you

Several years ago I immigrated to Germany. Here, I live in a small old house, which urgently needs modernization and that theoretically protects me from wind, rain, and cold.<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/7d264b3dfeb3f94236e88fd862fbfbb3.png" width="200">

Revolykus

Animals closed in a flat with a decomposing corpse of their owner try to survive. In this difficult situation, one of the dogs finds out that love for its owner is stronger than animal instinct.

Dog’s Field

Exploration of masculinity begins with the Minotaur, a mythical creature Picasso used to portray himself in his etching print series. The Minotaur goes through a violent struggle between being male and female. Finally, lines blur and boundaries of sexes disappear.

Eyes and Horns

Primavera is a frenetic experimental animation that documents the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests as they intersect in springtime Brooklyn. Shot during isolation on a phone, the video explores the effects of imposed distance on touch and intimacy, the proximity of an invisible virus and invisible deaths, and the revolt against the racist, corrupt systems that commodify, exploit and render their most vulnerable citizens disposable<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/60bd630adece96f39e633e687e4fd4b4.png" width="200">

Primavera

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Films In Competition 11 - Animation

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