International Competition Block 3 - SEAF 2023
Friday, October 6, 2023 - 7:00 PM - TU Van Bokkelen Hall Theatre
Friday, October 6, 2023 - 9:00 PM - MICA Falvey Hall Theatre
Saturday, October 7, 2023 - 4:00 PM - MICA Falvey Hall Theatre
Runtime = 82 minutes
Q&A with animators in attendance after the screening
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International Competition Block 3 is bursting with humor and visual innovation with animated short films from 9 countries. A dream hotel, moving sand, digital pet cats are fed up, empty chairs resist, too much meat for bunny, a journal comes to life, lookout for falling hammers, explosions, a distracting rain stick, shifting architecture, dive into the burger portal, fluffy creature spins pinecones, and a girl escapes suckling babies.
Midnight Hotel
Director - Vincent Albert, Malo Doucet, Neïl Dieu, May Taraud, Marie Toury
Country - France
Time - 4:41
What if it were possible to meet one another in our sleep? One night, three strangers find themselves in a Hotel of dreams. They must navigate this strange world together before dawn.
Soaked In
Director - Shiyu Tang
Country - China
Time - 4:45
At a humid and warm place, I existed. The whitewashed "gender selection" takes place in two different spaces, where satisfaction and despair mingles.
Miisufy
Director - Liisi Grünberg
Country - Estonia
Time - 10:25
Digital pet cat Miisu gets tired of her owner and starts to revolt. Inspired by Tamagotchi, Miisufy observes the world through the eyes of digital pets.
Reparations
Director - Wilson Andres Borja
Country - Colombia
Time - 8:24
Reparations is an experimental animated short film that explores the phenomenon of migration (forced and voluntary), through the fragmentation and modulation of a character: A chair that moves as a result of invisible forces. Forces that sometimes represent coloniality, in others industrialization and in the most complex, the consequences of war. The chair object incorporates a search in the middle of marginalization, adaptation and inequality, through a series of urban scenarios in which symbols of the African diaspora that survived and dispersed in the Americas are displayed. The chair embodies the result of these interactions, claiming expressions of resistance such as African percussion and the use of Quilts.
Vegeversary
Director - Sarah Mae Schmidt
Country - United States
Time - 4:00
A rabbit's friends take her on a meat-bender to celebrate her vegan-anniversary. They hitch a ride to town and indulge in all kinds of foods she avoids all year long. The evening has its ups and downs. Her friends reward her with a soy-based breakfast in the morning.
Between you and me
Director - Cameron Kletke
Country - Canada
Time - 3:50
A dynamic journey through a woman’s visual diaries, exploring human connection in young adulthood. 
The Final Nail In The Coffin
Director - Conor Kehelly
Country - Ireland
Time - 9:50
A mother and son are stuck. A father is obsessing over a plank of wood in his living room. A businessman is looking for a lost hammer.
This Is a Story Without a Plan
Director - Cassie Shao
Country - United States
Time - 7:35
Two people, and an explosion. This Is a Story Without a Plan envisions two characters witnessing a constant explosion in different fragments of their lives. It is a tale of observers but of an unpredictable nature, reflecting on both the characters' relationships with the explosion and each other.
TASCAM
Director - Jake Reed, Derek Milton, Mike Katz
Country - United States
Time - 1:23
A Craigslist transaction gets derailed by a distracted conjoined twin while purchasing audio recording equipment.
& MORE
Director - Tsz-wing HO
Country - Hong Kong
Time - 3:11
& MORE draws from the architecture of the M+ museum of Hong Kong. Our film challenges the definition of a museum by looking at it as an object itself. Through a geometric play of shapes and forms in the M+ building, we explore what underpins our material world.
BurgerWorld
Director - Maddie Brewer
Country - United States
Time - 8:39
Two co-workers at a derelict fast-food franchise accidentally discover a yonic meat portal to another realm — a “burger” world, wherein they’re the only ones who can liberate an oppressed vegetable populace from the all-controlling hand of big meat.​
Shackle
Director - Ainslie Henderson
Country - United Kingdom
Time - 9:54
Three archetypal woodland spirits explore the conflicting human drives of creativity, possessiveness and our desire for status.
A Story for 2 Trumpets
Director - Amandine Meyer
Country - France
Time - 5:26
Initiatory and intimate story in which the author tells, in the form of a tale, the key stages of her construction as a woman and artist.