Animation for Adults

6pm, Saturday, October 19

79 minute runtime

Botching.

Director:  Brian Williams

UNITED KINGDOM

Hacking a Robot for fun, or malicious intent, is dangerous, illegal, and banned globally. It has a name: Botching. This is a story from one such 'Botch' job.

The Splint

Director:  Mehdi Sedighi

ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

A robotic truck driver, on a dirt road, is replacing old wooden power poles with new concrete ones when he hits two birds.

TO BIRD OR NOT TO BIRD

Director:  Martin Romero

SPAIN

To bird or not to bird, that is the question. A critical and kaleidoscopic view of the current world told through the tragicomic and grotesque experiences of some birds.

WAN

Director: Victor Monigote

SPAIN

There is a Sunset in the forest. After a frantic chase, a fierce-looking hominid confronts an old man and his hyena-dog, with an unexpected result.

RED SNOW

Directors:  Susana Olmedo Álvarez & Aurelia Gil Junco

SPAIN

A little girl and a vampire live in a village by the forest, where they pass time together. An incident and a memory from the girl’s past will challenge their relationship and the course of their lives forever.

BEFORE DYING, THE WENDIGO'S SHADOW

Director:  Alvar Vielsa

SPAIN

An original idea by Carlos Wallas, in the purest Japanese-style Spaghetti Western, Before Dying is the story of Jack, a lone ranger who, accepting a bank robbery, will find himself involved in deception, betrayal and death. Fate is complicated for him when he comes into contact with a Wendigo or Indian demon that will change his destiny.

antisocial

Director:  Tobias Rothacker

GERMANY

I am the hero, I’ll remain,
See only me, push you away,
Embrace destruction, face the pain,
Transforming swiftly in my own domain!

Blind to my path, antisocial in my reign.

Boxes for Rox

Director:  Chelsey Raegen Knapp

UNITED STATES

Awareness is the first phase.

The Dance of the Nain Rouge

Director:  Eric Millikin

UNITED STATES

“The Dance of the Nain Rouge” is an experimental decolonial Detroit demonology deepfake dream dance documentary, based on the legend of the Nain Rouge (“Red Dwarf") of Detroit. According to folklore and urban legend, the Nain Rouge is a supernatural shape-shifting native being who was brutally attacked by xenophobic colonists and has since been seen dancing as an omen of successful rebellions by the oppressed, having reportedly been seen before events such as the victory of Chief Pontiac at the Battle of Bloody Run in 1763 and the 1967 Detroit Rebellion against racism and police brutality. Besides short stature and redness, the Nain Rouge is known for dance, metamorphosis, and cross-species collaboration, having according to “Myths and Legends of Our Own Lands” (1896) “directed the dance of black cats” and “had power to change shape.”

The video, soundtrack, and voiceover are all created with custom artificial intelligence systems, programmed and trained on a hacked-up second-hand Macbook laptop to minimize environmental destruction and maximize class warfare.

The video is based on an AI trained on Victorian era public domain photos of spiritualists and factory workers, 20th century dance, science fiction, and horror film stills, as well as microscopic images of red blood cells and telescopic images of red dwarf stars. The soundtrack is created in part from an AI trained on stethoscopic recordings of human, carnivorous plant, and fungus organs, and also radio waves from space. The narration is a prose poem written by an AI programmed to start from the first line of “The Nain Rouge” from “Myths and Legends of Our Own Land” (1896), end with the last line of “The Nain Rouge” from “Legends of Le Detroit” (1884), and the text in between is based on other contemporary “Red” texts: Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death and Other Tales” (1892 collection), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life” (1894), Leonora Blanche Alleyne’s “The Red Fairy Book” (1890), Stephen Crane’s “The Red Badge of Courage” (1895), “The Grand Grimoire” also known as “The Red Dragon” (likely from the 1800s, claims to be from 1521), and Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital” volumes 1-3 (1867-1894).

2 Aliens - Meuterei auf der Bulldock

Director:  Thomas Zeug

GERMANY

The two chaotic aliens Quiqueck & Hämat come across a mysterious space nebula.  When all systems fail, Captain Quiqueck decides to freeze himself.   Hämat has to take the lead alone, which has a strong appeal!

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