Santa Cruz Film Festival Presents: Experimental and Animated Shorts
Schedule
Fri Oct 07 2022 at 09:15 pm
Location
Colligan Theatre at the Tannery Arts Center | Santa Cruz, CA
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Life. Death. And Life Again.Life finds a way. These short films capture humanity's innate ability to find hope in the face of loss, creativity in the face of destruction, and survival in the face of death. Themes of nature, movement, resilience, and rebirth are all explored in this collection of experimental films which push the boundaries of the medium.
Featuring:
This Desolate Shore (8 mins)
Synopsis: History's First Narrative Film Made with A.I.
THE SPRAYER (9 mins)
Synopsis: In the land occupied with the sprayers army, no one has the right to grow any kind of plants either in public or private. So many of the people and soldiers do not even know how dose a plant grows or look like, until one day one of the soldiers finds a seed buried deep down in the dust and his curiosity is just the beginning of something extraordinary, something big, something revolutionary
Vultures (13 mins)
Synopsis: At the end of a dying world, two scavengers are running out of options. When they find a way out, one doesn't hesitate to take what she can. But when faced with her victim, she has to decide if her survival is what’s most important.
A Machine For Boredom (3 mins)
Synopsis: Isolation drives a man to rethink his position within a capitalistic society.
Survivers (7 mins)
Synopsis: Natural selection says that only those who adapt will survive. What if humans have become stupid?
Revelation to the Disembodied (9 mins)
Synopsis: Fragments of a collective post-human dream construct a world that straddles hyper-technological, mythological, and ecological dimensions.
Warm Hands (4 mins)
Synopsis: A patient spends a sleepless night alone in a hospital room.
The Waltz (5 mins)
Synopsis: Shadows from an interwar Yiddish poem by A. Lutzky waltz at the edge of a modern world as it crumbles under their feet.
Un alabao (3 mins)
Director's statement: "It is the spring of 2021 as I watch Colombia, my second home, erupt in violence. Through the tiny window of my phone, I watched as impassioned citizens fought against a tyrannical government. It tore my heart witnessing a place that had filled my life with so much joy and warmth become a hole of darkness and despair; but then again Colombia has had a long history on this troubled road."
Orbital Discourse (8 mins)
Director's statement: "We are living in a time when people rely heavily on second-hand sources of information to educate themselves and form opinions about the world around them. Orbital Discourse was born out of feeling overwhelmed by the ideological bickering that seems prevalent in today’s society. People not listening to each other and just arguing to be right."
Uqi (17 mins)
A cult leader gets caught in his own web at the worst possible time.
With filmmakers in attendance
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Where is it happening?
Colligan Theatre at the Tannery Arts Center, 1010 River St,Santa Cruz,CA,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
