82 mins | Recommended 18+

From sacred rituals to a fox in drag, join us in celebrating the creativity and skill that goes into exploring the world and everything in it as only animation can. Guest curated by Penn Balint (they/he), a Hungarian artist based in Devon working across art, theatre, film, and music.

PROGRAMME

MYTH OF THE CAVE 
Dir. Corin Astles | 4 mins | UK 
A child enters a cave to complete a sacred ritual and must learn to face the shadows that lie within. 

ANOTHER DAY 
Dir. James Lake | 7 mins | UK 
Tucked away in the modern city are lonely lives, marked by dreary habits and routines, propped up by hopes, dreams, and fantasies. And sometimes art. 

Exploring the world of hand-modelled craft and sculpture through digital animation, this tender and uplifting film shines a light on the transformative nature of creativity through the eyes of a disabled man living at the edges of a world which threatens to entirely pass him by. 

THE VIRUS 
Dir. Caroline Fawell | 4 mins | UK 
A short stop motion animation about Covid and lockdown. It’s about what it felt like to be stuck at home/trapped in the house during covid lockdowns, quietly climbing the walls, with a humorous twist. The heroes are a couple, trying to get by, keep their sanity and simultaneously evade the antagonistic force of the virus, while outside the world continues to thrive without the interruption of humans. 

DOKRA KEU BOJHEY NA 
Dir. Sneha Das, Monjima Mullick | 8 mins | India 
Dokra Keu Bojhey Na (Incomprehensible Dokra) is an animated documentary that explores the perils that the 4000 year old craft of Dokra faces in West Bengal, India. We converse with artisans and its sellers to discuss the lack of patronage that may lead to its extinction and the possible ways to revive the craft as well the poor living conditions of its artists. 

SANDCASTLES 
Dir. Meredith Stewart | 6 mins| UK 
A wistful child re-lives a memory close to their heart. 

THE CAR THAT CAME BACK FROM THE SEA 
Dir. Jadwiga Kowalska | 11 mins | Switzerland 
Full of exuberance and frivolousness, six friends drive to the Polish Baltic coast and back in a small, beaten-up car. During their trip, their car and their country fall apart. Nevertheless, life goes on. 

FLICKERING LIGHT 
Dir. Jahnavi Misra, Apoorva Mundoor | 3 mins | UK 
Flickering Light (Peeli Batti) is a poem that encapsulates the experience of a woman whose loneliness and dissociation takes her to the brink of non-existence, disappearance and ghostliness. 

ON TINDER WITH MUMMY 
Dir. Catarina Diehl | 9 mins | Finland 
9-year-old Iida’s parents fought so much, she should have called the police. Now they’ve finally divorced and she is helping Mummy find a new man on Tinder. 

LINES 
Dir. Martin Schmidt | 4 mins |Germany 
An aggressive battle unfolds between red and dark blue. The borderlines between the colors vibrate with tension as they fight for their lives. 

THE GARDEN OF THE HEART 
Dir. Olivér Hegyi | 11 mins | Hungary, Slovakia 
Dániel Juhász, a young aspiring painter with low self-esteem, is in his last round of interviews at the painting department of the Academy of Fine Arts. While waiting for his interview, his demons appear to him in the form of garden pests. 

AND GRANNY WOULD DANCE 
Dir. Maryam Mohajer | 9 mins | UK 
Marmar listens to the stories told by her grandmother’s friends as they play an illicit game of cards. Based on childhood memories and shared stories, And Granny Would Dance is a tale of love, grief and resilience. 

DRAGFOX 
Dir. Lisa Ott | 8 mins | UK 
Sam’s search for identity gets interrupted by a mysterious neighbourhood fox. Together they embark on a magical journey to the attic to discover the things they might have in common, and how to celebrate the ways in which they differ. 

VENUE: EXETER PHOENIX, Studio 74

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