International Competition Block 1
2020 Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival
2020 Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival
Washing Machine
Director - Alexandra Májová (Czech Republic)
Time - 5:02 min.
Synopsis - Wash and Love.
* United States Premiere
Director - Alexandra Májová (Czech Republic)
Time - 5:02 min.
Synopsis - Wash and Love.
* United States Premiere
Ciervo
Director - Pilar Garcia-Fernandezsesma (USA)
Time - 10:15 min.
Synopsis - A young girl struggles to understand her uneasy balance between independence and submission.
Director - Pilar Garcia-Fernandezsesma (USA)
Time - 10:15 min.
Synopsis - A young girl struggles to understand her uneasy balance between independence and submission.
Abstract Animals
Directors - Dana Sink & Ivica Širanović (USA & Macedonia)
Time - 1:18 min.
Synopsis - We like all kinds of animals, even abstract animals.
Directors - Dana Sink & Ivica Širanović (USA & Macedonia)
Time - 1:18 min.
Synopsis - We like all kinds of animals, even abstract animals.
The Fire Next Time
Director - Renaldho Pelle (United Kingdom)
Time - 7:47 min.
Synopsis - Rioting spreads as social inequality causes tempers in a struggling community to flare, but the oppressive environment takes on a life of its own as the shadows of the housing estate close in.
Director - Renaldho Pelle (United Kingdom)
Time - 7:47 min.
Synopsis - Rioting spreads as social inequality causes tempers in a struggling community to flare, but the oppressive environment takes on a life of its own as the shadows of the housing estate close in.
Freeze Frame
DIrector - Soetkin Verstegen (Belgium / Germany)
Time - 5:00 min.
Synopsis - Freeze frame: the most absurd technique since the invention of the moving image. Through an elaborate process of duplicating the same image over and over again, it creates the illusion of stillness.
DIrector - Soetkin Verstegen (Belgium / Germany)
Time - 5:00 min.
Synopsis - Freeze frame: the most absurd technique since the invention of the moving image. Through an elaborate process of duplicating the same image over and over again, it creates the illusion of stillness.
Escape Velocity
Director - Tamás Rebák (Hungary)
Time - 7:43 min.
Synopsis - Escaping from an alien planet, an astronaut must reach the space shuttle before a mysterious beast catches him.
* United States Premiere
Director - Tamás Rebák (Hungary)
Time - 7:43 min.
Synopsis - Escaping from an alien planet, an astronaut must reach the space shuttle before a mysterious beast catches him.
* United States Premiere
Dinner Time
Director - Kate Renshaw-Lewis (USA)
Time - 3:45 min.
Synopsis - Dinner Time is a surreal hand-drawn animation about the rigid gender roles within a nuclear family.
Director - Kate Renshaw-Lewis (USA)
Time - 3:45 min.
Synopsis - Dinner Time is a surreal hand-drawn animation about the rigid gender roles within a nuclear family.
Lah gah (Letting Go)
Director - Cécile Brun (Switzerland)
Time - 6:33 min.
Synopsis - A dive into sunny childhood memories and emotional depths of loss and disappearance, trying to grasp what is not tangible.
Director - Cécile Brun (Switzerland)
Time - 6:33 min.
Synopsis - A dive into sunny childhood memories and emotional depths of loss and disappearance, trying to grasp what is not tangible.
Symbiosis
Director - Nadja Andrasev (France / Hungary)
Time - 12:48 min.
Synopsis - A betrayed wife starts to investigate her husband's mistresses. Her jealousy is gradually replaced by curiosity.
Director - Nadja Andrasev (France / Hungary)
Time - 12:48 min.
Synopsis - A betrayed wife starts to investigate her husband's mistresses. Her jealousy is gradually replaced by curiosity.
No Other One
Director - Asaki Nishino (Japan)
Time - 3:08
Synopsis - These two characters who got separated in a world without context take action to find each other. This work represents a modern world in dislocation, in which the Internet is the new normal.
* North American Premiere
Director - Asaki Nishino (Japan)
Time - 3:08
Synopsis - These two characters who got separated in a world without context take action to find each other. This work represents a modern world in dislocation, in which the Internet is the new normal.
* North American Premiere
Shadow Passage
Director - Ali Aschman (United Kingdom)
Time - 4:10 min.
Synopsis - An improvised stop-motion film about a woman exploring her own psyche through its manifestation as a sequence of identical yet progressively smaller rooms, inhabited by multiple selves.
Director - Ali Aschman (United Kingdom)
Time - 4:10 min.
Synopsis - An improvised stop-motion film about a woman exploring her own psyche through its manifestation as a sequence of identical yet progressively smaller rooms, inhabited by multiple selves.
Kapaemahu
Directors - Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer & Joe WIlson (USA)
Time - 8:25 min.
Synopsis - Kapaemahu reveals the hidden history of four legendary healing stones on Waikiki Beach, and the mysterious spirits within them.
Directors - Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer & Joe WIlson (USA)
Time - 8:25 min.
Synopsis - Kapaemahu reveals the hidden history of four legendary healing stones on Waikiki Beach, and the mysterious spirits within them.
LAX to Vancouver
Director - Zach Dorn (USA)
Time - 0:48 min.
Synopsis - An animated short about a trip from the LAX International Airport to Vancouver and a pair of worn American Apparel underwear.
Director - Zach Dorn (USA)
Time - 0:48 min.
Synopsis - An animated short about a trip from the LAX International Airport to Vancouver and a pair of worn American Apparel underwear.
Un diable dans la poche
Directors - Antoine Bonnet & Mathilde Loubes (France)
Time - 5:38 min.
Synopsis - A group of children witnesses a crime and is forced to remain silent. Auguste, the youngest, finds the burden too heavy and decides to reveal this secret.
Directors - Antoine Bonnet & Mathilde Loubes (France)
Time - 5:38 min.
Synopsis - A group of children witnesses a crime and is forced to remain silent. Auguste, the youngest, finds the burden too heavy and decides to reveal this secret.
The Wind
Director - Miranda Javid (USA)
Time - 3:53 min.
Synopsis - 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.
* World Premiere
Director - Miranda Javid (USA)
Time - 3:53 min.
Synopsis - 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.
* World Premiere