Baltimore Showcase - SEAF 2023
Opening Night! Thursday, October 5, 2023 - 7:00 PM - MICA Falvey Hall Theatre
Saturday, October 7, 2023 - 4:00 PM - TU Van Bokkelen Hall Theatre
Runtime = 70 minutes
​Go to 2023seaf.eventbrite.com to purchase tickets to this screening program or to buy an all-access pass!
$12 for individual tickets / $80 for all-access festival pass
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The Baltimore Showcase makes it's triumphant return with 22 films from animators and students from right here in Charm City! Greek mythology, unruly wind, voicemails from dad, a flying restaurant, flower hunks, ai brains, indecisive tattoos, a fire bird man, goats, animal portraits, a hole in the ground, dancing teeth, another hole in the ground, killer pizza, private eye mollusk, an adventurous cat, a talking fish, remembering a loved one, disintegrating muscles, bike riding, a surreal tea party, and a coffin on the loose. Q&A with animators after the screening!
Amathus
Director - Lydia Mastrangelo 
Time - 3:34
​Amathus is a retelling of the birth of Aphrodite that explores modern storytelling and femininity.
Wind
Director - Sayer Alexander Baca
Time - 0:57
A leaf is carried through a house by the wind in this stop motion animation.
Hi Emily, it's Monday at 2pm. Just Saying Hi.
Director - Emily Kobert
Time - 3:04
An animated exploration of shifting Risograph prints as I've thought about memory and family memory, the merging of time, shifting identity, and the reconstruction and reiterations of home landscapes in personal artwork. This film was created with scanned Risograph reproductions of an original marker zine about Hollywood Beach, Florida and generations of family photos at the beach. The visuals are accompanied by my dad's habit of marking the day and time in the voicemails he leaves for me.
Legend of the Floating Restaurant
Director - Trey Morant
Time - 5:05
King Buttercup complains about the distance between PETERS and Buttercup Castle (Even though he could easily run or super jump over there), so Cookie gets the idea to turn PETERS into a floating delivery restaurant!
How Fruit Are Made
Director - Tom Woronowicz
Time - 1:23
A plant recalls her romance with a butterfly.
Brains: A postmodern Prometheus story
Director - Jim Doran
Time - 5:18
Brains tells the story of a society exploring artificial intelligence with the warning "don't lose your head over AI!"
Over Inking
Director - Molly Mignano
Time - 2:56
Worried about the permanence of deciding her first tattoo, a young woman confides in an unexpected expert in the topic.
[MEMORY]
Director - Erik Yuill
Time - 1:26
A young man sits in a hospital lobby before falling into his own mind and confronting a great beast.
The Girls
Director - Yan Wang
Time - 3:39
In this monoprint frame-by-frame short, grieving of the female identity existing in the Chinese world is shown through the eyes of a young girl. While the society kept turning women's fertility into weapons against them, and while girls are never offered enough goodness while growing up, this animation wants to emphasize on the under-spoken story of what a Chinese girl faces in her world.
Portrait Day
Director - Romina Melissa Nunez
Time - 2:53
When a cat and dog are paired to draw each other for a class portrait assignment, total chaos ensues.
The Hole Idea
Director - David Anthony Cobb, Jr.
Time - 0:39
Someone discovers a hole in the ground, only to get sucked right into it in, “The Hole Idea”.
Tooth to Wisdom
Director - Sua Choi
Time - 1:55
A young adult goes to the dentist to get their wisdom tooth removed, and in the process imagines all the ways it could go wrong.
In Us We Trust
Director - Jasper Jimenez
Time - 7:04
When two foolish alt kids stumble across a fairy circle after a long day of hanging out, a photo opportunity turned triple-dog-dare leads to the journey of a lifetime.
Solo Battle
Director - Sayer Alexander Baca
Time - 1:10
Two red solo cups at a party must battle a pizza box.
Jerry Octo P.I.
Director - Chase Nickoles
Time - 3:20
A hardboiled Octopus Private Investigator features in this concept trailer for a neo-noir animated action thriller.
Mary: Through Glass
Director - Wyatt Cooper Carson
Time - 7:02
Busy cars, dotted distant windows and aimless lights make up a city through the whimsical perspective of an indoor cat. “Mary” tells the story of a curious cat who finds the company of an imaginary friend more intriguing than the neighborhood cats, leading her to a new world.
Barbecue Chips (Or Else)
Director - Kellie Hubbard
Time - 4:22
To avoid running a 5K, a lazy teenager makes a deal with a rainbow trout in the bathroom of her local convenience store.
Wish You Were Here
Director - Colman Hallinan
Time - 5:42
'Wish You Were Here' is a visual poem written as a letter from a brother to his deceased younger sister, exploring the ways grief manifests itself even decades after the passing of a loved one. The film was completed as a capstone visual effects project at Towson University.
The Expectation of the Observed
Director - Stephanie J. Williams
Time - 5:00
The Expectation of the Observed meditates on how much our bodies do not actually seem belong to us. The repeated stress on marginalized bodies as political symbols, perform for an expectant audience who is implicated in their watching. The dance, a performance on a bare wooden stage shows in satire, literal meat under duress trying to remain in rhythm only to be torn apart. Muscle and sinew break away and surface disintegrates.
Until I'm With You Again
Director - Mo Mayer
Time - 3:18
An animated music video for the song 'Until I'm With You Again" by FRIKO​.
Teatime
Director - Emma Isabella Plunkert, Samuel Tillman
Time - 1:37
A girl finds comfort in inviting a long-lost friend to tea but must first traverse an absurd landscape.
Life of the Party
Director - Jade Lynn Mangine
Time - 5:30
In the wake of his wife Eleanor's passing, grieving Walter's attempt to hold a quiet, respectful service are thrown into chaos when a party bus arrives at the front steps of the funeral home. Before he has a chance to object, Eleanor's coffin is loaded onto the bus. Walter pursues, hoping desperately to resume the funeral, but Eleanor's coffin is whisked further and further from his grasp as it descends deeper into a world of city nightlife.