Sweaty Eyeballs Presents - LATE NIGHT WORK CLUB & Scott Benson
Friday, April 18, 2014 • 7:30 PM @ MICA Grad Studio Center

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Sweaty Eyeballs is proud to present Late Night Work Club's GHOST STORIES and special guest animator Scott Benson for an evening of wonderful and spooky animated short films. After the screening Scott will show more of his own work and talk about the game he's developing, Night in the Woods. 

Sweaty Eyeballs Presents
GHOST STORIES - an anthology of animated short films by Late Night Work Club
SCOTT BENSON - special guest animator
Friday, April 18
7:30 PM
MICA Grad Studio Center Auditorium
131 W. North Ave. Baltimore, MD
$5 General Admission
Free for Friends of the Maryland Film Festival and Students

Curators - Phil Davis & Max Porter
Co-sponsored by
MICA Animation Department
Towson University College of Fine Arts & Communication
Maryland Film Festival

GHOST STORIES, a short animated film anthology of 11 entirely new shorts wrought by the devil himself. These cryptic tales will scare you, make you laugh, and make you run for cover. They might even teach you how to resurrect the dead right from home. So bring a notepad.

Late Night Work Club is a group of some of the best new and established animators/designers from around the world. Hanging out almost solely on video chats, they have worked deep into the nights for the last year to bring you their first project.

 

Audience Choice Award - Sweaty Eyeballs 2014!

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The winner of the Audience Choice Award for the 3rd Annual Sweaty Eyeballs Invitational goes to:
Le Sens Du Toucher by Jean-Charles Mbotti Malolo (France)

The runner up Audience Choice Award goes to:
Coda by Alan Holly (Ireland)

Congratulations to the winners and many thanks to all those who attended the screening and cast a vote!

View the Animator Bios for Sweaty Eyeballs 2014

View the Sweaty Eyeballs 2014 Program

 Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Invitational Returns! - Friday October 17, 2014

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The 3rd Annual Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Invitational returns to the MICA Brown Center with a mind-blowing array of international, independent short animations. Curated by Phil Davis (Towson University) and Max Porter (Maryland Institute College of Art); including narrative, experimental, and music video work made with a variety of techniques ranging from stop motion, hand drawn, to CGI. Come on out for a night of weird and beautiful animation and cast your vote for the audience choice award!

Sweaty Eyeballs is brought to you by the Maryland Institute College of Art, College of Fine Arts & Communication at Towson University, and the Maryland Film Festival.

3rd Annual Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Invitational Screening
Friday October 17, 2014
7:30 PM
Falvey Hall Auditorium - MICA Brown Center
1300 W. Mount Royal Ave. Baltimore, MD
$5 ticket price
FREE for students (with valid student ID), University faculty/staff, and 
Friends of the Maryland Film Festival

Sweaty Eyeballs 2014 - Animator Bios

Tomek Ducki (Poland)
Tomek Ducki (1982 Budapest) Studied animation at the Moholy-Nagy Unviersity of Art and Design in Budapest (MOME) and National Film and Television School in London. After freelancing in several European countries he settled down in Poland where he has been collaborating with a couple of studios and artists since 2010. His two most known works are his multi award winning Hungarian graduation film: Life Line (2007), which was also nominated for Cartoon d’or and his music video for Basement Jaxx titled ‘My Turn’ (2009). 
At the moment he is working on his doctoral degree, while preparing his own animated series for adults.
tomekducki.com
Stephen Woloshen (Canada)
Steven Woloshen has been passionately creating handmade abstract films and time-based installations for more than 30 years. Lecturer, Juror, technician, animator, craftsman and recently, author of Recipes for Reconstruction, the filmmaker’s manual for decay, renewal and other handmade, analogue film techniques.
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Špela Čadež (Slovenia)
Špela Čadež was born in Slovenia. After graduating in Graphic Design in 2002, she continued her studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany. During her studies, she made two puppet animations that gained international recognition; Mate to Measure, (2004) and Lovesick, (2007). Since 2008 Špela Čadež has been working as an independent animation film director and producer. Her latest film, Boles, has been screened worldwide, receiving 40 awards, distinctions and nominations.
spelacadez.com
Zeitguised Studio & Matt Frodsham (Germany)
Zeitguised are a contemporary art studio exploring the frontier zone between digital abstraction and realism. Their ambiguously poetic work draws from the infinite recombination capacity of the internet’s crazed mashup culture, paired with the manipulation potential of digital imaging tools.  Using seductive 3d animation, Zeitguised creates post-narrative modes of structural transformations, evoking mental states of manic order and complex instability. Precarious color relations and dysfunctional shape agglomerations inform sequential transfigurations. By playing with conventions of digitally manufactured images, the fake is emancipated from authenticity.
Zeitguised was founded in 2001 by Henrik Mauler and Jamie Raap. Matt Frodsham is a motion designer from Manchester UK, currently based in Berlin.
zeitguised.com
mattfrodsham.com
Caleb Wood (USA)
Caleb Wood is an animation artist. He incorporates several different mediums in his work, and aims to expand upon the possibilities of animation. He received a BFA in Film/Animation/Video at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2011, and has since gone on to show work internationally and continue making films independently. 
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Sean Buckelew (USA)
Sean Buckelew is an animator based in Los Angeles, CA. He received his MFA from CalArts and BFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
seanbuckelew.com
Matthias Hoegg (United Kingdom)
Matthias Hoegg is a BAFTA nominated Animation Director and Freelance Animator based in London. His approach to Animation is led by distinctive design and succinct storytelling. Collaborations are key to his work and have allowed him to work across a broad range of creative fields, from Children's TV to Animated Documentaries, Branding and Commercials. Since 2006 he has worked on projects for Clients such as CBeebies, Warp Films, HP, HTC, Coca Cola and Virgin Media.
His work has been featured in Stash, The Reel, Motionographer, Onedotzero, Computer Arts, Encounters, Ars Electronica and over 40 other Film and Animation Festivals around the world. He graduated from the Illustration and Animation Course in Kingston in 2006 and the MA course in Animation at the Royal College of Art in London in 2010.
matthiashoegg.co.uk
Jean-Charles Mbotti Malolo (France)
Born in Lyon in 1984, Jean-Charles Mbotti Malolo graduated from Emile Cohl school in 2007. His graduation film, The Heart is a Metronome, received several internationals rewards included the Hiroshima festival debut prize in 2008. He first felt in love with the pencil when he was young, but kept room Hiphop dance since he was fourteen. Ten years later he joined the Stylistik company as a professional dancer. After he spent many years as a background designer and animator in the feature film industry, Jean-Charles directed his third short film, The Sense of touch, at the Folimage studio.
cargocollective.com/lesensdutoucher
Joel Kefali (New Zealand)
Joel Kefali is a director and animator from New Zealand. He is represented by the production companies Doomsday (North America) and Goodoil (Australia & Asia). He has created music videos for the artists Katy Perry, Tune Yards, and Lorde.
joelkefali.com
Corrie Francis Parks (USA)
Corrie Francis Parks has shown her award-winning animated shorts on every continent except Antarctica. Specializing in sand, paint on glass, and hand drawn mediums, her work emphasizes the integration of digital and traditional mediums and a dialogue between technique and content. She teaches animation at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and looks forward to the day she can count penguins among her fans.
corriefrancis.com
Tobias Stretch (USA)
Tobias Stretch grew up in rural northern Appalachia where as a kid he ran about the woods building visions of other worlds. His unique surreal style captures the expressionistic beauty of both rural and urban landscapes. Many characters in these dreamlike worlds are giant life-sized armatured puppets wandering about as animated outdoor sculptures. Tobias works in many forms including live action, stop motion, rotoscope, puppetry, animatronics, painting, sculpture, drawing and photography. He has done work for Radiohead, MTV Liquid Television, The War on Drugs and Hauschka. His work has been featured on many great sites such as Fast Company, Beautiful Decay, Nowness and Vice Creator's Project who are currently producing a short documentary on his creative process. He's earned 6 Vimeo Staff Picks in 5 years, his work has been screened and exhibited in many prestigious venues around the world including the LAFF and the Honolulu Museum of Art where he also exhibited his puppet sculptures.
tobystretch.prosite.com
Nicholas Gurewitch & Marco Ibarra (USA)
Nicholas Gurewitch is an Eisner-award winning comic strip artist (The Perry Bible Fellowship) currently turning his attention to TV and film. Marco Ibarra is a three-time Nuevo León arm-wrestling champion. He eats too much meat.
pbfcomics.com
Big Play Films
Yoriko Mizushiri (Japan)
Yoriko Mizushiri was born in 1984 in Aomori prefecture, Japan. After she obtained her BA degree at the Joshibi University of Art and Design in Tokyo, she began living and working as a freelance artist in Tokyo. Apart from animated film work, she has also shown artwork in gallery exhibitions. Her short film Futon won the Audience Choice Award in the 2013 Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Invitational.
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Alan Holly (Ireland)
 Alan Holly is a dublin based artist and filmmaker. He studied animation and has been working in various roles in the industry since graduating in 2005. He has directed a number of short films, his most recent film Coda is funded by the Irish Film Board.
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David OReilly (Ireland / USA)
David OReilly is an Irish filmmaker and artist based in Los Angeles.
davidoreilly.com
Mikey Please (United Kingdom)
Mikey is a London based animation writer and director. In 2010 he completed a Masters in Direction for Animation at London's Royal College of Art, funding it with commissions from Virgin, Rough Trade, Ninja Tune and a promo for Universal Records clocking close to 7 million online views. His thesis film The Eagleman Stag premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, went on to win a BAFTA and numerous other accolades, including awards from SXSW, Seattle, LA and Chicago International Film festivals, the AFI as well as showing at over 400 festivals and public screenings. Short-listed for an Academy award, The Eagleman Stag was Short of the Week's Film of the year. In 2011 Mikey continued his commercial work directing a short for Nike and part of the Grammy nominated album-length film '9 Types of Light' for the Brooklyn based band, TV on the Radio. In early 2012, he was awarded a 3-month fellowship in Tokyo by the Japanese Center for Cultural Affairs. During this time, he developed a new short film, Marilyn Myller that went on to receive the McLaren award at its world premiere at the Edinburgh Film festival in July 2013. As well as working with Disney in children's series development, his first feature film, Zero Greg is currently in development with Film Four and Warp Films. He is represented commercially by Hornet Inc in New York and Blink Ink in London.
mikeyplease.co.uk