ANIMATION Shorts Festival - Jan. 28/29 event
New Releases
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Animation, Independent, Short Films
See the Full Lineup of Films:
OUR PASTS ARE IN THE OCEAN, 6min., USA
Directed by Dairys Escoto De Léon
It's 2120, a mom and a daughter are moving out of an extremely polluted city on a scavenger hunt for clean air. As they exit the city by traveling through the ocean, the tension of the decision strains their relationship.
I STILL LOVE YOU, 4min., USA
Directed by Jose E. Juarez
This is a story about a young couple that has recently ended their relationship. They are seeing the same therapist and are talking about their feeling towards each other after their break up
SCRIBBLE, 4min., Jordan
Directed by Rooa Samer Alshattle
"Scribble" is the journey of Mana, as she struggles with self-harm, she walks alone, everyone dissolving intro scribbles around her as she awaits the start of another day at school.
https://www.instagram.com/rita_animator/
I AM NOT AN ANGEL, 11min., China
Directed by Joe Chang
A young Nurse Amy, unaware of the severity of the virus, going to work alone, while millions of people don masks as the infection travels through the population. The nurse comes to realize the patient she is tasked with taking care of, is not a run-of-the-mill case, but is a matter of life and death.
WHAT THEY LEFT BEHIND, 7min., USA
Directed by Xingyu Gu
Several years after her grandfathers had passed away, a young woman recollects her memories of them.
https://www.instagram.com/ianbkim
MY SISTERS IN THE STARS: THE STORY OF LIFE YONG-SOO, 10min., South Korea
Directed by Ian Kim
Born in Daegu, Korea in 1928 under Japanese occupation, Lee Yong-soo was taken away from her home at the age of 14 by the Imperial Japanese Army and forced into sexual slavery on the front lines of the Pacific Theater in World War II. She is now one of 11 remaining known “comfort women” survivors in Korea out of a system that claimed more than 200,000 women and girls from Japanese-occupied territories throughout Asia from 1932 to 1945.
https://www.instagram.com/ianbkim
Up Next in New Releases
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INFERNO, 16min,. Germany, Dance/Exper...
Inferno“ by Nostos Tanztheater is a dance theater about exclusion, trauma, refugee issues and displacement.
Where is Hell?
We are talking about prisoners who live in cells without hope. Families who had to flee persecution and are stranded in a boat between borders.
We are talking about people w... -
THINGS SHE WANTS, 3min., Canada, Poem...
An interpretation of the prose poem by Paola Ferrante which explodes marriage and explores the lived experience of intimate partner violence.
http://www.kevinandrewheslop.com/film
Directed by Kevin Andrew Heslop
Writer: Paola Ferrante
Cast: Niki Carr
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BETWEEN THE BALANCE, 4min., USA, Danc...
choreography by Nicole Kadar & Dancers - while editing a full length dance concert I added a filter to give the dance a particular look & feel. but what happened next was something I rarely do. I used a mirror effect and it divided & repeated half the frame. which gave the piece a more abstract &...