BALTIMORE SHOWCASE - SEAF 2021
Friday, November 12, 2021 7:00 PM EST | Run Time, 61 minutes

​Musical alter-egos, sound recordings in the wild, mutations at the bar, grandma's magical stew, cannibals who sing, sexy ice cream, swordplay, bunnies, pickled brains and more.  A showcase of the best new animated short films from the Baltimore region! The program will kick off the opening night of the 2021 Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival on Friday November 12th!
The Getaway Dude
Director - Peter Feng
Time - 3:50
A short film about a man named Jason Scape who will do anything to avoid the things he doesn't like.
Individuate
Director - Anna Broomfield
Time - 1:12
Codependence in motion.
How to Make Electronic Music
Director - Rob Thompson
Time - 7:24
A wandering musician shows you how he makes electronic music in the wild.
The Benefits of Radiation
Director - Jim Doran
Time - 2:55
Set in a Baltimore Bar, patrons can play a game of rock paper scissors to see if they will be transformed for the better.
Nonna
Director - Abby Cali
Time - 2:30
An animated stop motion short that explores the magic of grandmothers and the company to be found in the act of cooking.
Concession Stand Girl
Director - Corrinne James
Time - 2:13
PASSWORD: 1 A frog morphs through a colorful animated world, transforming into a variety of characters and landscapes. As it’s changing, it catches, throws, and drives a football–weaving through the lyrics of Naomi Alligator’s Concession Stand Girl.
Infernal Apprentice
Director - Tori Porter
Time - 3:25
Nemus and Willow are left home alone when their teacher Mortuss has to run an errand in town. Nemus, who is bored out of her mind practicing the same spells and incantations decides to snoop around in Mortuss’s study for something more advanced and interesting. In the process she accidentally unleashes a dangerous creature that causes mayhem.
The Feast
Director - Zeb Blair
Time - 12:01
In the tiny village of Chowtown, the biggest is the best - therefore, the person who eats the most is elected to rule over the rest! It’s a flawless system until a stranger introduces a brand new innovation to the world - cannibalism.
Mosaic
Director - Ellie White
Time - 1:30
Each one of us is a mosaic of the people who pass through our lives, people who add a new perspective to our own. Returning to her green family, a multicolored girl questions whether she will be accepted or rejected after being exposed to new colors.
Sweet as Cream
Director - Mary Budnitz
Time - 3:31
Stella must avoid dairy temptation but soon faces delicious enticement when her friends introduce her to the most beautiful person she has ever met… a man made of ice cream. Who knew love could be this sweet?
Freed
Director - Kellie Hubbard
Time - 2:32
Freed tells the story of someone living a ghost of a life, feeling weighed down, or haunted, by feelings like fear, insecurity, or regret. Although letting go of these feelings to allow growth can be a long and painful process, it can ultimately lead to brighter horizons and to a newfound freedom to live.
Jan Julius - MANOR HOLES HIGH RISE
Director - Nick McKernan
Time - 3:27
Set against the backdrop of an insidious rent crisis, MANORHOLES is a dense, atmospheric plunge into a vivid queer dystopia-- one where rent will consume you, uniforms manifest into tyranny, and four residents fight for their right to live and love.
Learning Process
Director - Emma Baranay
Time - 2:30
Blurring the lines of learning a new skill and experiencing hardship, "Learning Process" layers stress until solace is found through escapism.
All Alone
Director - Samantha Frost
Time - 1:19
"All Alone" is a short animated film that was inspired by the way the pandemic has changed the way we celebrated our birthdays. A woman who is all alone on her 22nd birthday falls asleep in tears, her dreams take her into a new world where she meets a helpful guide. The pair make the most of the day together and she feels a little less alone.
Starfire
Director - Mamadou Keita
Time - 1:21
The United States top fighter jet pilot tries to escape a desert city with important documents belonging to the newly formed united nations in a life or death high speed chase through a desert canal.
Pandooric
Director - Corrie Francis Parks
Time - 2:43
After a year of lockdown, what will we find outside? A collaborative project by 16 animators locked away in 16 locations, imagining the world outside through transformative rotoscoping.
Pickle Talk
Director - Emily Kobert
Time - 1:34
Girl buys an advertised "Brain Brine" kit to alleviate her pounding stress headache and store her brain away in a repurposed pickle jar. Her mindless escape to paradise is rudely interrupted by the realization that her brain won't fit back into her shrunken head.
Ten Degrees of Strange
Director - Lynn Tomlinson
Time - 4:29
"Ten Degrees of Strange" is a music video based on a song by Robert Macfarlane and Johnny Flynn, from the album Lost in the Cedar Wood, directed and animated by Lynn Tomlinson. Taking inspiration from The Epic of Gilgamesh, an ancient story written on clay tablets, and responding to the strangeness of the global pandemic, this story of loss and hope in nature is told through colorful, shifting, changing, morphing clay on glass animation.