
Era Animato
Select Shorts: Suggested ratings up to R
Art/Sculptures Coming Alive
Approximate Running Time: 60 minutes
Streaming as part of this year's Virtual Festival available only from June 10-27th on Gumroad.com/FloridaAnimationFest
This program is playing at All Saints Cinema on Friday, 6/11 at 7 pm
Please pre-purchase tickets TallahasseeFilms.com
(second row under "Now Playing & Coming Soon")
BOOKANIMA
Directed by Shon Kim
4:45 | R | Redondo Beach
BOOKANIMA, a compound word of ‘Book’ and ‘Anima’, is Experimental Animation project to give new cinematic life to book.
It aims to create ‘Book Cinema’ in the third scope between Book and Cinema by Chronophotography Animation, paying homage for Edward Muybridge and Entienne Jules-Marey.
BOOKANIMA experiments Chronophotography Animation about Andy Warhol.
Chocolate
Directed by Lili Zhang
4:06 | R | Hangzhou, Zhejiang province China
This film is about a subtle psychology which in the process of intercourse between men and women. Some women think that men’s desire is appearances. However, once a woman began to change herself too much, she became the chocolate in the box.
The Vulture
Directed by Santiago Colombo Migliorero
2:36 | PG-13 | La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Around 1917 Kafka wrote a note in his diary: "Somebody pulled my clothes, but I shook him off". Some years later, in his short story "The vulture", fate looks inevitable and it is not possible to escape from the torment. A vulture hacks the feet of the main character, who resigned, accepts passively this inevitable destiny.
Diabolical
Directed by Raphael Fabre
4:51 | G | Paris, France
A maze of loops, imagining distant utopias and lost worlds. Tribute to Foucault's Pendulum, to Borges and Poe, to the landscapes of forgotten paintings, this musical short film tells the mourning and the hope from the point of view of a child caught in the trap of his illusions.
A Chance to Be
Directed by Jesse Nyander
6:17 | PG | Fort Collins, CO
As a people, family, community, country, world, and universe, we are just a sum of our parts. Sometimes, we need to step back and look at the bigger picture. I am, because we are! Take a moment and run the numbers and understand that we cannot exist unless we begin to acknowledge it.
Any Instant Whatever
Directed by Michelle Brand
5:12 | PG | UK, London
A man in a room, in a film – it is the becoming of something and simultaneously becoming in itself. Nothing is as solid as we believe. The film explores our perception of time and change, bodies and objects, and our inability to comprehend the full motion of things.