EYEWORKS SHORT FILM PGM 2
Sandor Reisenbuchler FAREWELL, LITTLE ISLAND / ISTEN VELED, KIS SZIGET (Hungary, 1987, 12 min, 35mm-to-digital) "A short animation depicting the drowning of a village by modern technology." –NATIONAL FILM INSTITUTE HUNGARY Fanny Sorgo & Eva Pedroza TAKO TSUBO (Austria/Germany, 2024, 6 min, digital) "Mr. Ham decides to have his heart removed in order to be relieved of his complicated feelings. The doctor assures him that this is no longer a problem at all in this day and age. However, Ham keeps his heart for a while after the removal in order to perhaps understand it better after all. TAKO TSUBO is an animated, surrealistic reflection on dealing with feelings in a meritocracy." –SIXPACKFILM Jeff Carpenter & Mary Lambert RAPID EYE MOVEMENTS (U.S., 1977, 11 min, 16mm-to-digital) "An obscured world of night lives, eavesdropped phone calls, and philosophical romantic musings." –Jeff Carpenter & Mary Lambert Alexandre Alagôa XYZ (Luxembourg, 2026, 12 min, digital. Contains strobing imagery.) "An obsessive exploration of the three geometric dimensions in hopes of reaching a fourth. Created by shooting with a camera on a tripod throughout the halls of a building where the filmmaker used to work." –Alexandre Alagôa Lewis Klahr ALTAIR (U.S., 1995, 7 min, 16mm-to-digital) "ALTAIR offers a cutout animation version of color film noir. The images were culled from six, late forties issues of Cosmopolitan magazine and set to an almost 4-minute segment of Stravinsky's 'Firebird' to create a sinister, perfumed world. The viewer is encouraged to speculate on the nature and details of the woman's battle with large, malevolent societal forces and her descent into an alcoholic swoon." –Lewis Klahr Caibei Cai SLIVER CAVE / 银幕 (China, 2021, 14 min, digital) "Stepping into a cave, the sight fluctuates by the firelight. Left to right, top to bottom. The same goes for the screen in front of you. It is a borderless tunnel, presenting domestication and desire. –Caibei Cai Ida Lasic MOLLY DANE (U.S., 2020, 6 min, digital) "Experience the ritz and glamour of a death at the Dane's fundraiser." –Ida Lasic Amy Kravitz RIVER LETHE (U.S., 1985, 7 min, 16mm-to-digital) A non-narrative and abstract visual poem in five parts. Its title refers to the underworld river of forgetfulness. The drawings are created from non-traditional animation media including rubbed and erased graphite, pigment, and aluminum powders to make an animate surface of unusual richness.