ANIMATION SHORTS PROGRAM

Bottom Feeders – Director & Screenwriter: Matt Reynolds

(USA)

Two fictional species try to make it through the day in this bleak parody of the natural world.

Flaws – Director: Josh Shaffner

(USA)

An autobiographical, surreal rant about years spent in the service industry.

Heila Ormur – Director: Rose Stark

(Iceland, USA)

The slow savoring of horrible flavors in the body of a love gone bad.

Cast: Andi Kristins

Here There – Director & Screenwriter: Alexander Stewart

(Croatia, USA) US Premiere

A graphic form to memory’s malleable, straying lines.

Lazy Daze – Director: Brian Smee

(USA) World Premiere

Dog in the land where the good life takes you.

Leftover – Directors & Screenwriters: Tibor Banoczki, Sarolta Szabo

(France) US Premiere

Remains of food, remains of human relationships.

Cast: Jerry di Giacomo, Odile Cohen, Matthieu Saccucci, Marie-Sohna Conde

Life is Rugged – Director & Screenwriter: Simon Schnellmann

(Germany)

Five short sequences of line-drawing life are linked together by a black point.

Mirror in Mind – Director: SeungHee Kim

(South Korea)

A woman looks into her mind, chasing her ideals on a tightrope.

My Dad – Director: Marcus Armitage

(UK) US Premiere

A boy’s vividly-colored memories of learning everything from his dad, including racially-motivated violence.

Cast: Divian Ladwa

Pangs – Director: Wendy Cong Zhao

(USA) World Premiere

Wading through bodily and emotional pangs.

The Past Inside the Present – Director & Screenwriter: James Siewert

(USA) World Premiere

An allegorical tale of a couple who attempt to renew their dying relationship by plugging directly into recordings of their memories.

Cast: Schuyler Helford, Miles Joris-Peyrafitte

Ripple – Director: Conner Griffith

(USA) North American Premiere

The shapes we make. An advertisement for planet earth.

Still Life – Director: Kevin Eskew

(USA) North American Premiere

Et tu doggy? Synchronicity strikes in the suburban Midwest.

Worm – Director: Becky James

(USA) North American Premiere

Wrapped in chains, a worm languishes in prison.

Cast: Amanda Salane, Holden Miller