See the announcement of the 59th AAFF awards and a screening of select awarded films.

In the 3D animated film Mad Mieter, the protagonist is a lonely praying mantis living in a bourgeois furnished apartment, where it comes to a cruel end after an initially delicate approach. The work is freely inspired by Repulsion by Roman Polanski.<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/fa4c95111c5823414cff60e575300683.png" width="200">

Mad Mieter

My mother’s dreams have always been strong premonitions for important moments in my life. I rely on her dreams more than any religion.<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/fe38b7448504762403496b812756b478.png" width="200">

KKUM

A postmodern Swiss-Tyrolean ensemble ventures into remote mountainous regions, embracing the sonorous variety of local vernaculars. A poetic road movie with stunning shots and an emphatic approach to a new alpine aesthetics.<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/3c60f49b97167ed00df8b36a9a2c3f45.png" width="200">

Piz Regolith

This film was shot using continued interval shooting and multiple exposures of the setting sun from the same position and same angle on 16mm film. The shooting period extends to five years. No digital copy-paste was used—the sun that appears was shot on film. This is both a record of the days and a creative act of personal image, neither of which can be determined. It is just like painting a picture.<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/1e5613e1ee6cff2088d1b7d9944dedfa.png" width="200">

Rising from the sea monster of death, a young woman’s ghost leads her grieving sister through the heart of darkness in search of light. Directed and animated by Amy Lee Ketchum; written and composed by Ellen Boscov.<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/89554c3f68dfcf3518df64ff4bee8580.png" width="200">

First Light

An expressionist composition exploring illusion, fear, and wonder, through flickering stop-motion animation, electroacoustic music, and analogue video synthesis.<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/83b3a80cd79d8c52bb2914d5d2c15468.png" width="200">

Displacement

Young Danni isn’t like the other girls in town. She’d rather be watching drag races down at the airport or tearing about behind the wheel of her brother’s car, Lynyrd Skynyrd tunes blasting on the stereo. Showing the audience her life on the island and how stifled she feels by her passive-aggressive parents, she dreams of hitting the road and showing everyone what she can do.<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/32380aee3ea388cfc02a918e462b7a85.png" width="200">

Danni the Champion

The Queen of Dots is also a queen of Instagram and Tumblr. Completed 02022020. Two minutes and two seconds. Love forever.<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/98979d7aac751f6caa12d6de4890a722.png" width="200">

Queen of Dots

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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