A Peculiar Fascination
Select Shorts: Mixed Ratings up to R
Approximate Running Time: 82 minutes
Streaming as part of this year's Virtual Festival available only from June 10-27 on Gumroad.com/FloridaAnimationFest
Sackhead Strikes Out!
Directed by Jon Sherin
5:40 | R | New York
Sackhead Strikes Out! is a visceral gag-a-minute comedy that seeks to create a harmony between retro cartoons and modernized sensibilities. The plot centers around a miscreant lemur causing trouble at a bowling alley, who finds himself slipping down the lanes and into a surreal wackyworld wherein he learns his lesson.
Being a Dog
Directed by Felix Swahn
8:03 | R | Stockholm, Sweden
Tim is longing for love.
He’s a lonely human being who struggles with exclusion every day. Every time Tim feels different than others he transforms into a french bulldog. Ginger makes Tim feel human. Ginger is an old friend of Tim`s whom he was in love with, unrequited love. Tim collides with Ginger in the street, they talk and become friends again.
After meeting Ginger Tim becomes a dog again. This time he chooses to enjoy being a dog and sees all the possibilities of a dog`s life. It’s good to be a human being but it’s good being a dog sometimes too.
Red: The color within
Directed by William Javier La Portilla
4:42 | NC-17 | Lima, Perú
Dannae, a young artist, is in search of red paint in order to finish a canvas she’ll be presenting soon, but as the only art supply store near her is closed, and with time against her, the night presents an offer that brings out her real nature.
Are You Still Watching?
Directed by Alex Cardy, Tali Polichtuk, Kitty Chrystal
6:00 | R | , Melbourne, Australia/ Catalunya
Jamie is a 20 something year old non-binary person living in Melbourne. They’re whip-smart, creative and have an encyclopaedic knowledge of cinema and pop culture. They’re also single, bored and perpetually horny.
Forced into near-isolation during Melbourne’s COVID-19 lockdown, Jamie keeps themselves entertained bingeing on queer film and TV. What begins as mere escapism turns sensual when they start having sexual delusions involving their favourite queer characters. Fantasy and reality merge as they recount their erotic encounters to their physician Dr. Holland and receive an unusual diagnosis.
Are You Still Watching? explores the emancipatory power of the queer imagination, combining erotic fan fiction tropes, magical realism and a firm camp sensibility.
We Got a Problem with Groundwater
Directed by Shelby Baldock
5:00 | R | Los Angeles, California
Based on the poetry of Noah C. Lekas, 'WE GOT A PROBLEM WITH GROUNDWATER' is a surreal animated tale through the history and mindset of the horrifying working conditions of the American Midwest, as one man begins to realize his fate may very well lie in the notebooks his factory produces on a mindless day-to-day basis.