International Competition Block 4 - SEAF 2024
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 5:00 PM - MICA Falvey Hall Theatre
Runtime = 80 minutes
Q&A with animators in attendance after the screening
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$12 for individual tickets / $80 for all-access festival pass (gets you into all screenings/events of the festival)
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International Competition Block 4 is silly, raunchy, and magnificent, with animated short films from 9 countries. Risograph run, ghost with a full bladder, nudity in the supermarket, dusty memories, looping mechanism, don't forget fresh batteries, grooming girls, LGBTQ+ asylum seekers, manta rays take over, obsessive compulsive disorder, seeking divinity, and getting touched in the hotel.
Soul Supreme - Geshem Bejuni
Director - Tal Uliel
Country - Israel
Time - 3:03
"Geshem Bejuni" is Tal Uliel's graduation project from the Visual Communication department of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. It's a collaborative music video composed by Amsterdam-based musician Noam Ofir, known as Soul Supreme. The project seamlessly fuses risograph printing aesthetics with experimental 3d digital techniques, resulting in a vibrant, textured visual style that synchronizes with the music to convey a powerful message of connection, inviting viewers on an abstract journey.
The Doldrums
Director - Chris Childs
Country - United Kingdom
Time - 5:00
A group of partygoers consider what awaits them after death.
Keep Frozen!
Director - Jeanne Tiessé
​Country - France
Time - 7:59
Troubadour-sur-Yvette mall, it's 8 a.m. and employees are finishing preparing the store for the opening. Just as the first customers are starting to shop, a man steps into the main aisle and removes all his clothes.
The Old Shell
Director - Meiling Li & Lei Wu
Country - China
Time - 3:20
​People's footsteps will gradually disperse, and old houses and blocked memories will gradually fall into the dust of time.
[S]
Director - Mario Radev
Country - United Kingdom
Time - 12:33
[S] is an artwork that exposes the lifespan of infinity. The film delves into an immersive loop of organic forms, reflecting on the entangled nature of life and art.
Alone Time
Director - Pilar Garcia-Fernandezsesma
Country - United States
Time - 1:10
A femme preps for a self-pleasuring session. 
Flower Show
Director - Elli Vuorinen
Country - Finland
Time - 8:31
Girls have been cultivated like flowers for generations. We need more growing seasons to breed new ways into the system. 
Is this the mansion I will live in?
Director - Rafaelle Fillastre
Country - Belgium
Time - 5:40
The safest LGBTQ+ countries in Europe' into Google, and Belgium pops up at the top. For many queers who are about to be forcedly displaced from their country of origin, this becomes a determinant in the decision-making of where to go. However, contrary to the internet portrayal, the reality for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers in Belgium often starts with discrimination and oppression, sometimes even more severe than what they had been experiencing before.  This animated short tries to shed light on the incomprehension of queer identities within migration systems and the abuse of power by its frontline workers. It depicts only the first few hours of a lengthy, 18-24 months long asylum process, where queer asylum seekers are met with mistreatment, hunger, and homelessness instead of the promised equality and safe space.
Flatastic
Director - Alice SAEY
Country - France
Time - 16:50
Pushed to their limit, the Manta Rays rise up against Man to take control of the Earth; it is the dawning of a new Flat era.
Check
Director - Anita Gill
Country - United Kingdom
Time - 1:25
A short film about OCD checking and the anxious inner struggle that can often be invisible to others. The aim of 'Check' is to convey this feeling of anxiety, urgency and frustration through beautiful, abstract visuals and looping, chaotic sounds.
Poppy Flowers
Director - Evridiki Papaiakovou
Country - Estonia
Time - 4:24
Remembering is a fluid affair. A daughter tries to reconcile with her mother through memories of their shared rituals, exposing the intricate aspects of their relationship. As the daughter matures, she begins to contemplate conventional notions of divinity. The blank frames of the 35mm strip regain their function as memorabilia in the process of engraving her past onto its surface. 
Matta and Matto
Director - Bianca Caderas, Kerstin Zemp
Country - Switzerland
Time - 10:16
In a dystopian world where touch is forbidden, Matta and Matto offer refuge to the lonely at Hotel Vaip. In the deceptive labyrinth of mind bending rooms at their transient hotel, deepest desires are fulfilled and surpassed, but this comes at a price.