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International Competition Block 3
2020 Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival
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CRAZY
Director - Inari Sirola (United Kingdom)
Time -3:09 min.
Synopsis - What is the crazy stigma women get in dating context? What is the culture around it? In this short we ridicule the crazy-stereotype in a form of - crazy.
* North American Premiere


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Lizard Ladder
Director - Ted Wiggin (USA)
Time - 5:20 min.
Synopsis - Animals encounter a ball that grants magical powers and sows conflict.


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Luge
Director - Mickaël Dupré (France)
Time - 12:36 min.
Synopsis - Marion would like to go sledding on « the » hill of her childhood, she brings her brother in the mountain in order to find it once more.

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Serial Parallels
Director - Max Hattler (Hong Kong / Germany)
Time - 9:00 min.
Synopsis - This experimental animation approaches Hong Kong's built environment from the conceptual perspective of celluloid film, by applying the technique of film animation to the photographic image. The city's signature architecture of horizon-eclipsing housing estates is reimagined as parallel rows of film strips: Serial Parallels. 


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Inside Me
Director - Maria Trigo Teixeira (Germany)
Time - 5:00 min.
Synopsis - A clear decision surrounded by mixed feelings. A young woman recounts her experience with abortion.


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Night Shift
Director - Linda Stūre (Latvia)
Time - 3:23 min.
Synopsis - The nightly ritual of a security guard - a game of Tetris - is interrupted by unexpected technical issues. One of the surveillance cameras breaks down, and the game sets its own rules.
* North American Premiere


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powerwash (i love you)
Director - Rory Waudby-Tolley (United Kingdom)
Time - 2:30 min.
Synopsis - A short film about love and patios.
* United States Premiere


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Pulsator
Director - Thor Sivertsen (Norway)
Time - 5:15 min.
Synopsis - Pulsator is an abstract experimental art film. Organic and geometric shapes drifting and making constantly new pictures. 


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In My Particular Case
Director - Chico Jofilsan (Uruguay)
Time - 4:12 min.
Synopsis - In a world in which focus no longer stands out dispersion occupies the foreground. This is the theme of this film that shows different resources of animation in adapting to the rhythm of our minds. After all, what other art, if not animation, can shape so many imaginary worlds?


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Where am I?
Director - Cheng Qiu (United Kingdom)
Time - 4:16 min.
Synopsis - What do you see inside the mist?


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Bela
Director - Nick Simpson (Australia)
Time - 4:52 min.
Synopsis - The biography of Bela Julesz, Hungary's most famous visual neuroscientist, creates a disturbance in the tedious lives of two isolated people.
​* North American Premiere


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Needs
Director - Julia Lerch (Hungary)
Time - 5:19 min.
Synopsis - Our most important internal motivation is to satisfy our needs. In four episodes it shows what would happen if our needs were changed, shifted in time, able to adjust to our agenda, or if we could influence them. To illustrate this phenomenon the work isn't using human bodies, rather amorphous shapes that are changing in their own material.  * United States Premiere


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Goldfish
Director - Daniel Zvereff (USA)
Time - 4:04 min.
Synopsis - A powerful dream inspires creation after it extinguishes the distracting facade of a monotonous reality.


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Standard Operating Procedure
Director - Eli Ayres (USA)
Time - 5:00 min.
Synopsis - Tensions run high under a cloudy sky.


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We are Alone
Director - Matthew Minchello (USA)
Time - 5:05
Synopsis - What does a teardrop feel after it's left the eye?
* World Premiere


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DONT KNOW WHAT
Director - Thomas Renoldner (Austria)
Time - 8:07 min.
Synopsis - Employing the method of single frame editing, primarily focused on sound, the realistic film image transforms into a surreal, structuralist and finally even abstract film. It creates a musical composition while experimenting with the human voice and transforming language into sound and music. DONT KNOW WHAT questions classical rules of different film genres by combining elements of avant-garde film / video art and entertainment cinema.


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