EXPLODING EYEBALLS

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ANOTHER HORIZON

Dir. Stephanie M Barber | 2020 | 9:00 | USA The horizon, where the sky and the earth meet, is always elsewhere, a promised place where these two elements come together.

BOBBY PINWHEEL

Dir. Robert Kleinschmidt |2020 | 2:59 | USA Birthday boy Reginald has a special visitor! The mime, mimic and maniac Bobby Pinwheel!

COMTE

Dir. Natalia Ryss | 2020 | 3:09 | CANADA Juan, don’t talk a lot, otherwise you’ll become bald...

CONTAGIOUS LONELINESS

Dir. Carina-Susann Krause | 4:04 | GERMANY Touch. It gives you a sense of security, comfort and energy. A world consisting of the dynamics of touch and interaction is constantly in motion. It lives and grows through closeness and feelings.

DISAPPEARING PATHWAYS

Dir. Michael Covello, Elizabeth Schneider | 2020 | 12:41 | USA A meditation on what it feels like to both belong and not belong within a community. Exploring issues of metal health, in relation to hallucinations, dreams, addictions, and family entanglements.

ËDHÄ DÄDHËCHA̧ / MOOSEHIDE SLIDE

Dir. Dan Sokolowski | 2020 | 4:15 | CANADA A film about the historic rock-slope/landslide in Dawson City, Yukon, which is known by the local Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in as Ëdhä Dädhëcha / or Moosehide Slide. It examines the scientific reasons for the occurrence versus the legend that the local Indigenous people say it was the actual creation event.

HYBRID

Dir. Steven Lapcevic | 2021 | 4:24 | USA Time and Recollection Officer D51 patrols his route for irregular memories. Meanwhile, a disillusioned citizen demands egress from his station and is quickly punished for his disobedience.

JUNE NIGHT

Dir. Mike Maryniuk | 5:00 | CANADA Juxtaposing archival imagery with handcrafted animation, Maryniuk conjures up a shimmering utopian dreamscape, a postCOVID world shaped by the primordial forces of nature—haunted by the genial spectre of Buster Keaton.

Eyeball-bursting, finger-twitching and soul inspiring works, from the comic to the existential, the hilarious to the poetic. A selection of animation from across the world that’ll inspire and stimulate!

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LULLABY FOR A PANDEMIC

Dir. Gwendolyn Audrey Foster | 2020 | 1:00 | USA Lullaby for a Pandemic is a cineaste's pandemic lullaby for nodding off to dreamland. A Surrealist dream, filmed and edited under quarantine, made during the pandemic of Spring 2020.

MODORU

Dir. Kate Schumann | 3:30 | AUS A trip to Japan’s countryside inspires this campy horror adventure.

PICNIC PALS IN DREAMLAND

Dir. David Ferino | 2020 | 13:00 | USA Three friends dream-share. Psychic adventure ensues.

PIGS PD

Dir. Preston Ghanfili | 3:00 | USA A comical statement against law enforcement, police brutality, and the prohibition of marijuana in the United States.

POOP SHOES

Dir. Tamir Rawlings, Bradley Oliver Wilkinson-Vega | 2021 | 00:15 | USA Brand Spankin' New, feast your eyes on POOP SHOES! A commercial for a new form of faecal footwear. These shoes stink! Get your poop shoes today!

SAD BEAUTY

Dir. Arjan Brentjes | 2020 | 9:50 | NETHERLANDS In a heavily polluted world, a young woman mourns the disappearance of animal species. When she falls ill due to a bacterial infection, nature appears to send her a message in her hallucinations.

WILDERNESS DAYS

Dir. Jason Younkman | 2021 | 11:11 | USA Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur Summer(s) in New York City reassembled as a scrolling (de)collage.

ZOMBIE'S STORY

Dir. Daito Nagura | 2021 | 2:04 | JAPAN Zombie friends hear gunshots or is it something else? Dinner is ready. Are we alive?