Audience Choice Award!
Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Invitational 2017
Congratulations to Lucrèce Andreae for her film Pépé le Morse (Grandpa Walrus)
Winner of the 2017 Sweaty Eyeballs Audience Choice Award!
Winner of the 2017 Sweaty Eyeballs Audience Choice Award!
Sweaty Eyeballs 2017 Audience Choice Award - created by Jen Strunge
6th Annual Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Invitational
Friday November 17, 2017
7:00 PM
Parkway Theatre
5 W. North Ave. Baltimore, MD
$10 General / $8 Member / FREE for students with valid student ID
Program Running Time - 85 minutes
The 6th Annual Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Invitational returns to the Parkway Theatre with an astonishing array of international, independent short animated films. 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 strange and wonderful animation and cast your vote for the audience choice award!
Parkway Theatre Link to purchase tickets in advance
Facebook Event Link
Friday November 17, 2017
7:00 PM
Parkway Theatre
5 W. North Ave. Baltimore, MD
$10 General / $8 Member / FREE for students with valid student ID
Program Running Time - 85 minutes
The 6th Annual Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Invitational returns to the Parkway Theatre with an astonishing array of international, independent short animated films. 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 strange and wonderful animation and cast your vote for the audience choice award!
Parkway Theatre Link to purchase tickets in advance
Facebook Event Link
Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Invitational 2017 - Animator Bios
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Abhishek Verma (India)
Abhishek Verma is an independent animator. He graduated from the School of Design-IDC, IIT Bombay in 2014. He is currently a Fellow with Young India fellowship. He specializes in communication and animation film design. He has a special interest in typography, experimental narrative and illustration. He loves screen writing and experimental narrative. His previous animation short CHASNI - the sugar syrup screened in over 37+ festivals including Animafest Zagreb, Mumbai International Film festival, TASI, IDSFFK-Kerela, Chitrakatha and many more. The film won a total of 10 national & international awards. His upcoming project is an animation feature tentatively named Oh my Dog! |
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Niki Lindroth (Sweden)
Niki Lindroth von Bahr, born in 1984, is an artist and animation director based in Stockholm. She got her masters degree in fine art at the Royal Institute of Art in the spring of 2016. her films Bath House (2014) and Tord and Tord (2010) have been screened at festivals around the world, such as Berlinale, Sundance, AFI, and Annecy. Tord and Tord was also nominated for the Best Short Film at Guldbaggegalan 2011. |
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Evelyn Jane Ross (USA)
Evelyn is a BAFTA nominated animator and recent graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design. She is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on stop-motion and hand-drawn animation, and expresses an interest in layering her work with recognizable media, such as pencil, marker, ink droplets and sand. She has a background in dance and often subconsciously uses that knowledge to choreograph movement in her work. |
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Brett Foxwell (USA)
A mechanical engineer drawn to the art, magic and science of stop-motion animation, Brett Foxwell taught himself to design, build and animate armatures as well as shoot, edit and direct over the course of the ten-year production of his short film, Fabricated. A precision machinist and builder of fantastic worlds and creatures, he has constructed stop-motion armatures for films including Boxtrolls and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. |
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Kouhei Nakama (Japan)
Kouhei Nakama is a visual art director working at WOW Inc. His website is kouheinakama.com. |
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Robert Löbel & Max Mörtl (Germany)
In 2008 Robert and Max met at the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg while studying illustration and communication design. At that time they collaborated on several experimental animation projects and somehow got addicted to animation. Now living in Berlin, Robert is working as an independent filmmaker and animator specialized in 2D animation. Max is based in Munich now, working as an animator and director focused on stop motion animation and music visualization. From time to time they join their forces to create weird animations. |
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Lucrèce Andreae (France)
Lucrèce Andreae studied animation at Les Gobelins in Paris, France. With other students, she directed the film Trois Petits Points. Then, she continued her studies in La Poudrière. In her films, Lucrèce Andreae describes madcap characters, absurd situations, and everyday tragedies with a lot of softness. |
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Joseph Bennett & Charles Huettner (USA)
Joseph Bennett is a director and animator living in Los Angeles. He mostly spends his time exploring human absurdity and digging deep into the fetid caves of the collective unconscious. Charles Huettner is a freelance artist and animator living in Pennsylvania. He is part of the animation group Late Night Work Club where he premiered his last short The Jump. |
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Steven 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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Greg Condon (USA)
Greg Condon is a filmmaker and illustrator based in New York. His animation has been featured on websites and festivals all over the world. He has written articles on animation for ASIFA Magazine and Social Work Today. To see more of his work visit www.hiddenjunk.net |
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Felix Colgrave (Australia)
Felix Colgrave was raised by retired hot air balloonists in the bushland of Tasmania. Experimenting with animation throughout childhood in rural isolation, and publishing work online since the age of 13, Felix has amassed a dedicated cult following for his mostly wordless, whimsical, and vaguely unsettling films. He is now based in Melbourne, Australia. |
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Hayley Morris (USA)
Hayley Morris is a director, artist and animator based in Providence, RI. Her work uses traditional animation techniques such as stop-motion and hand-drawn to tell stories that unfold through layered textures, handcrafted details and inventive storytelling. She has directed commercials for Samsung, Hewlett Packard, Burt's Bees, HumanaOne, Kate Spade, The Detroit Zoo, Paragard and many others. Hayley has a passion for creating music videos and has directed work for Iron and Wine, Explosions in the Sky, Pure Bathing Culture and grammy award winning violinist Hilary Hahn and oscar nominated composer Hauschka. Morris’ work has been featured in film festivals and museums around the world. Her short film Undone won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Animated Short at Slamdance. Hayley is also adjunct faculty at the Rhode Island School of Design and runs a small animation studio called Shape & Shadow |
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Sarina Nihei (Japan)
Sarina Nihei is a freelance animator living in Tokyo. Having graduated from the Royal College of Art in London with an MA in animation in 2014, her graduation film, Small People with Hats, has been awarded at festivals around the world including Ottawa, HAFF and British Animation Awards. Specializing in hand-drawn style, she makes surreal and absurd animation. |
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Albert Birney (USA)
Albert Birney is a filmmaker and musician based in Baltimore, MD. |