Animation by Humans (and Others)

16:00, Thursday, October 23 & 12:00, Sunday, October 26

88 minute runtime

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The Cinema That Never Was

Director:  Mark Wacholz

GERMANY

Have you ever wondered about all the films we lost—not to time, but to never having existed? Not abandoned projects, but films that were never written, never imagined, never even conceived. What if the cinema we know and love is just a fraction of what could have been?

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What is a Movie: A prompt

Director:  Jeong A. Lee

SOUTH KOREA

AI filmmakers, by which I mean the actual AI, are only slowly rediscovering Western continuity editing while reminding us all that filmmaking is montage.

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Ratvertising

Director:  Blanca de Frutos

SPAIN

A satirical mockumentary disguised as a scientific behavioral study of a rare species of creative rodents, ratvertisers, working under simulated advertising agency conditions.

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A Finnish and paranoid dream

Director:  Jimena Aguilar

ARGENTINA

How to talk about the future when it seems there is no future? The world exploded and it only remains a voice formulating hypotheses about a future that will be or that already is. What is all this? A prologue to the future? The future itself? A Finnish and paranoid dream?

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STARS

Director:  Mojisola Adebayo & Candice Purwin & Debo Adebayo

UNITED KINGDOM

The Nommo – extraterrestrial Afro-hermaphrodite anthro-amphibian migrants: both female and male, of land and of sea, like humans and fish, with feet and fins, scales and skin, ancestor aliens, rainbow chameleons. This is a queer African tale of tails, told through hand-drawn animation, dance music beats, and magical poetry.

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Freedom

Director:  Arjan Brentjes

NETHERLANDS

Two astronauts try to rescue forbidden art treasures from a totalitarian regime by smuggling them on their mission to Jupiter. During their long space journey they then encounter some mutual disagreements.

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Chrysalis

Director:  Rachel Macindoe Baker

NEW ZEALAND

Alone on a desert planet, a meticulous recluse spends her days tending to the local ruins, carefully restoring the relics of a long-lost civilization. Her routine is disrupted by the discovery of a strange pebble, and a mischievous creature, who appears eager to take apart the very things she works to preserve. As the planet’s weather shifts unpredictably, she finds herself caught between a need for stability and an inevitable confrontation with change.

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Dark cloud memories

Director:  Seung-hee JEUNG

SOUTH KOREA

In a future world where all memories are stored digitally and reliant on the cloud for one's identity, a young woman undergoes brain surgery for perfect recall. As storage limits force her to erase old memories, she becomes obsessed with the ones she can't bear to delete more and more...

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For Small Creatures

Director:  Dylan Jeanette Albertson

UNITED STATES

In an encounter with an anomalous singularity in deep space, an astronaut gets a second chance to say goodbye.

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Imagos

Director:  Brogan R. Wassell

UNITED STATES

What remains when what has been fades away. When only the image of the past carries on? That's the question of this film and explored within the world of involving robots.

The Image remaining. The Imagos. Long after.

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Forbidden Valentine

Director:  Owen Coughlan

CANADA

A short film about AI, child abuse, and unrequited love.

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Weekend at Maury Island

Director:  Bradley Wilkinson

UNITED STATES

Two couples spend their evening at a cabin when they are surprised by a fleet of extraterrestrial visitors.

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