International Competition Block 2 - SEAF 2024
Saturday, October 19, 2024 - 9:00 PM - MICA Falvey Hall Theatre 
*Saturday, October 19, 2024 - 9:00 PM - TU Van Bokkelen Hall Theatre
Runtime = 81 minutes
Q&A with animators in attendance after the screening
Go to this Eventbrite Ticket Link
On the Eventbrite site - Select Saturday, October 19 for your chosen date. Then click the orange tickets button and find this specific event to reserve a seat for this screening at either MICA or Towson.
$12 for individual tickets / $80 for all-access festival pass (gets you into all screenings/events of the festival)
​*same time different location

International Competition Block 2 is packed with beauty, humor and strangeness with animated short films from 8 countries. A delicious pterodactyl, language pushed to the brink, eye tracking, embroidery, goldfish down the drain, voicemails underwater, skateboards glide, middle school is rough, a snake with an orange, climbing a face, floating turtle, pinocchio reimagined, and a rabbit rides a robot vacuum. 
Garlic Roasted Pterodactyl
Director - Natalie James
Country - United States
Time - 3:17
An  odyssey to prepare a meal amidst the stars.
Miserable Miracle
Director - Ryo Orikasa
Country - France
Time - 8:00
Inspired by Henri Michaux’s poems and drawings about his experiences with mescaline, Miserable Miracle explores the limits of language and perception, creating connections between sound, meaning, shapes and movement. 
The Looking Game
Director - Ann Upton
Country - Ireland
Time - 7:02
"A Two Way Mirror with the Lights Switched Off"  Eyes are tracked and attentions plotted as a fictitious audience follows the narrator's orders. They are divided by the screen and though they try, neither can see through to the other side. We can't be sure if the bond they form is reciprocal, or if the audience was ever even there to begin with. 
91 Thousand Unrelenting Stitches
Director - Samuel Wasserman
Country - Canada
Time - 2:09
91 thousand tender, yet unrelenting embroidered stitches on a single piece of leather, plus an accompanying track composed of sound samples from the embroidery process.
Monsoon Blue
Director - Jay Hiukit Wong & Ellis Kayin Chan
Country - Hong Kong
Time - 14:19
The dream of a goldfish to return into its wild form uproars her long-forgotten memories, and a self-conscious monsoon is about to be uninhibited. 
The Tone Of The Sea
Director - Mica Bolaños Meade
Country - Mexico
Time - 5:39
Through a series of voicemails, a Mexican migrant worker struggles to connect back home, while the harsh environment she now lives in is reflected onto the only thing she thought would be familiar: the sea.
Yellow Whale Street
Director - Nicole Ujin Altan
Country - United States
Time - 2:57
Based on an original poem about a strange street.
Girls In Real Life Situations
Director - Ofre Sparrow Vaknin
Country - United States
Time - 6:24
Sam, Lexi and Jane spend the first day of Eighth Grade plotting a scheme to get the ultimate lunch table. Their plans unravel when Katy, a preppy, sixth-grade TikTok influencer beats them to the coveted spot.
MIMT
Director - Ted Wiggin
Country - United States
Time - 3:58
To give a snake an orange.
I am Here
Director - Cheyenne Goudswaard
Country - Netherlands
Time - 5:16
The fear of oblivion can be overwhelming, but it can also be a driving force. The film explores the need to imprint ourselves onto the world and build a legacy.
Mee and Burd
Director - Greg McLeod
Country - United Kingdom
Time - 7:48
A post operative existential crisis inspires an animator to make a film about a post operative existential crisis.
Gina Kamentsky’s Pinocchio in 70mm
Director - Gina Kamentsky
Country - United States
Time - 3:12
Pinocchio felt a longing deep within him. Someday, he would become a real girl and live a life beyond the confines of make-believe.
Tennis, Oranges
Director - Sean Pecknold
Country - United States
Time - 10:53
A robotic vacuum suffering from burnout quits its job at a hospital and sets out to find community and a greater purpose on a quiet street where two lonely rabbits are stuck in perpetual loops.