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International Competition Block 4
2020 Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival
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Rock Cowboys
Director - Graham Mason (USA)
Time - 3:09 min.
Synopsis - A short video about rock cowboys discussing their lifestyle and philosophy.

* World Premiere

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The Wellspring and the Tower
Director - Melinda Kádár (Hungary)
Time - 7:37 min.
Synopsis - When the wellspring that sustains the ecosystem dries out, its cry for help triggers a process which uses all of the world's resources to build a tower. This seems to have a destructive effect on the environment, but the tower has only one purpose: to resurrect the wellspring.
* United States Premiere

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Rock, Paper, Thistle
Director - Gina Kamentsky
Time - 2:30 min.
Synopsis - I ate a garden of Thistles and kissed a Bee.

​* World Premiere

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A Family That Steals Dogs
Director - John C. Kelley (USA)
Time - 7:30 min.
Synopsis - Strange experiences and realizations lead a grieving artist to reconsider his identity and beliefs in this meditation on grief, family and mental illness.
* World Premiere

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4:3
Director - Ross Hogg (United Kingdom)
Time - 4:48 min.
Synopsis - Separate projections combine, unifying, becoming whole.
Twelve animated projections combine to develop a rhythmic dialogue exploring the intrinsic relationship between sound and image using 16mm film, paint and a projector.
* United States Premiere

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Portrait of a woman
Director - Natalia Durszewicz (Poland)
Time - 4:50 min.
Synopsis - This eponymous "female portrait" is made of social expectations, stereotypes and cultural constructs. The protagonist must continuously reject the roles imposed on her and adjust to the views of others. Finally, the woman decides to liberate herself from the surrounding limitations. Will she manage to escape? 
​* United States Premiere

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Beyond Noh
Director - ​Patrick Smith (USA)
Time - 3:00 min.
Synopsis - "Beyond Noh" rhythmically animates 3,475 individual masks from all over the world, beginning with the distinctive masks of the Japanese Noh theater and continuing on a cultural journey through ritual, performance, utility, and politics.

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100,000 Acres of Pine
Director - Jennifer Alice Wright (Denmark)
Time - 7:21 min.
Synopsis - Ranger Megan Patel must uncover the mystery surrounding her brother's death. But following his footsteps, Megan discovers a darkness she might not escape.

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Sea Moss - Appease the Peas, Please
Director - Arius Ziaee (USA)
Time - 4:13 min.
Synopsis - A 2D animated music video for the band Sea Moss, an experimental noise rock band based in Portland. Using straight ahead animation and strange loops to build a world that would appease the peas.

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Ju Ren
Directors - Henry Zhuang, Harry Zhuang (Singapore)
Time - 5:18 min.
Synopsis - A seed is planted. A school of fishes washes up to a barren land. While all the fish leaps into the sea, one digs deep into the land.
* United States Premiere

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Doomsday Princess
Director - Alyssa Ragni (USA)
Time - 2:14 min.
Synopsis - As the only human survivor of a radioactive apocalypse, a cheerful young woman sings her way through life, planning a tea party where she hopes she can finally find friendship.

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Catgot
Director - Ho Tsz Wing (Hong Kong)
Time - 3:09 min.
Synopsis - It is a 2D hand-drawn abstract "fountain performance" animation using the music, "Catgot" by ISAN. 

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Hot Dogs
Director - Owen Roberts (USA)
Time - 7:53 min.
Synopsis - Hot Dogs is an animation about eating hot dogs and discussing the afterlife.

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Hit and Run
Director - Hannah Brewerton (United Kingdom)
Time - 4:18 min.
Synopsis - Things get surreal when the Brits play baseball. A satirical film about modern British politics and tactics of distraction. 
* North American Premiere

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Edge
Director - Steven Subotnick (USA)
Time - 3:15 min.
Synopsis - A call and response.

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Purpleboy
Director - Alexandre Siqueira (Portugal / Belgium / France)
Time - 13:55 min.
Synopsis - Oscar is a child who sprouts in his parents garden. Nobody knows his biological sex but he claims the masculine gender. One day Oscar lives an extraordinary but painful adventure in an authoritarian and oppressive world. Will he manage to have the identity recognition he desires so much?

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