A collection of animated sketches from Rainbow Timothy’s sketchbook 2017-2020. After graduating with a BFA in Spatial Design from Unitec,&nbsp; Auckland, New Zealand in 2012, Rainbow Tim relocated to New York for three years where he developed his Spatial Art and animation practice within a tight-knit experimental art scene in Brooklyn. His art shows led to commissions for animated music videos and content. Tim joined forces with his Circle Line Projects partners Ana Mouyis and Zachary Zezima to create many experimental animations. <a href="http://www.rainbowtimothy.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.rainbowtimothy.com</a>

Enjoying a Nice Life

A hand-drawn sequential telling of human history in all its horror and glory, culminating in our next evolutionary leap. A look at the elusive beauty observed in our moving forward as a species despite our proclivity for destruction. Theo Scott’s animated short “DoughButt” was commissioned and aired by BBC Channel 4. While continuing to work on short films, he has exhibited internationally and published cartoons in such publications as Britain’s best-selling current-affairs magazine Private Eye. Theo’s previous project involved harnessing Machine Learning algorithms in order to create an experimental and unprecedented 3D animation for Gwil Sainsbury of Alt-J.&nbsp;<a href="http://theowscott.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.theowscott.com</a>

Cuties

“Miserable me. Two planks are screwed on to my temples,” Franz thought. You can unscrew them, but stupid thoughts will immediately drag you into a dark abyss, right into the clutches of everlasting insomnia.&nbsp; David Babayan was born in 1966 in Yerevan (Armenia), in a family of artists. Art has always attracted him, and after graduating from the Yerevan State Linguistic University’s Department of Philology, he turned his hobby into a profession. An acclaimed screenwriter, actor, and composer, he has directed numerous music videos and written for television and film. www.<a href="http://artstepstudio.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">artstepstudio.com</a> / FB: <a href="http://www.instagram.com/david.babayan.14" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@david.babayan.14</a>

Dream of Kafka

When Mr. and Ms. Mendoza are murdered in strange circumstances, their family decides to hire the best private consultant in the city: Toni Clues. Will he be able to solve the mystery before time runs out? Born in the eighties, Rubén Garcera studied Fine Arts at the University of San Carlos (Valencia). He has been professionally dedicated to stop-motion animation as animator/model-maker for 6 years, working in both narrative and commercial work. He made 99% of “Re-Animal” by himself. IG: @<a href="https://www.instagram.com/rugarso_animation/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">rugarso_animation</a>

Re-Animal

An accompaniment to Wishbone Zoe’s 2020 album French of the Bird, “Here I’m” is both a study of disorder-caliber anxiety and a chimerical, hyper-saturated four-movement video suite, in which ambiguous coyote narrators attempt to navigate frenetic, ever-shifting psychic landscapes. Wishbone Zoe is a multimedia artist working in Western Mass. Her compositions combine exploratory music, songs, animation, performance art, video, soft sculpture, drawings, poetry, and multimedia collage. She has released three albums of original music and performs live both as a songwriter and as a performance artist. Wishbone animates and directs music videos and shreds for a band called EIEIEIO.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.wishbonezoe.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.wishbonezoe.com</a> / IG: wishbone.zoe

Here I'm

Set sometime in the future, the human/robot apocalypse can be a drag. To keep spirits high in an underground bunker, one military robot, Mother, begins to self-express and performs in human drag for the robot army. George Metaxas was born in Sydney to Greek parents, and both worked and studied in Architecture before coming to the US to earn his Masters in Experimental Animation at CalArts. He's worked in the world of stop-motion animation for the past 8 years. working on projects for Disney, Nickelodeon, MTV, Cartoon Network and Paul McCartney. His shorts have screened around the world at festivals such as Melbourne and Brisbane International, Ann Arbor, Inside Out and Zagreb. IG: <a href="http://www.instagram.com/metaxasssss" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@metaxasssss</a>

Mother Bunker

A psychedelic journey through an imagined paradise; a paper city built of cheap models, lo-fi animation, and thousands of composited layers. The inhabitants of said city include Sonic Youth's Bob Bert, Amanda Flowers, Troma's Lloyd Kaufman and more luminaries of NYC's 21st underground. <a href="http://www.khloaris.com/thebathtub" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.khloaris.com/thebathtub</a> / IG: <a href="http://www.instagram.com/khloaris" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@khloaris</a>&nbsp; Director of multiple art-damaged feature films, as well as the creative force of a multitude of musical projects, Dylan Mars Greenberg’s work was described by Paper Magazine as situated: "Somewhere between the faded pastels and grainy VHS footage of the '80s and the neo-Dada internet iconoclasm of today..."

The Bathtub

Face recognition failure. Deadbeat Igor-503 evades the cops’ detectors during a night of wild drinking. Martinus Klemet is an animation director hailing from Estonia. He studied fine art and animation at the Estonian Academy of Arts. His animated short films have been screened at international film festivals and won national and international awards. He has directed music videos, commercials, infomercials, and made commissioned work for museums. He has been invited to speak about his work in Estonia, Australia, Kosovo, and Mexico and has mentored animation students at the Estonian Academy of Arts.&nbsp;<a href="http://martinusklemet.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.martinusklemet.com</a> / IG: @<a href="https://www.instagram.com/martinusklemet/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">martinusklemet</a>

Face Recognition

Set in a world not unlike mid-20th century America, “The Vandal” centers on Harold, whose tormented search for peace from traumatic loss results in an unexpectedly destructive awakening after he undergoes a lobotomy. When the procedure “turns his mind inside out” and his great love is suddenly gone, Harold’s desperate search intensifies. Unconfined by genre, filmmaker Eddie Alcazar’s multi-technique approach to visual storytelling is an exploration of undiscovered cinematic territories via an intensively layered process he calls “meta-scope” to achieve the final effect. Alcazar’s next project is the feature film Star, executive produced by Steven Soderbergh. “The Vandal” is presented by Darren Aronofsky.

The Vandal

In a heavily polluted world, a young woman mourns the disappearance of animal species. When she falls ill due to a bacterial infection, nature appears to send her a message in her hallucinations. Arjan Brentjes started his career as a painter and switched to moving images in 2008. Since 2010, he has been making short films, most recently working in animation. <a href="https://arjanbrentjes.nl/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.arjanbrentjes.nl/</a>

Sad Beauty

A film about the filmmaker’s fears of his own creative tools, fake affection, betrayal, abstract imagination, and the cycle of fear. Animated with watercolor on paper, the creative tools symbolized by a “hand” take on a journey of hurting and getting hurt. Will Kim was born in Los Angeles and grew up in both L.A. and Seoul, Korea. He graduated from CalArts with a BFA and UCLA with an MFA. Will's work has been shown at international film festivals and museums. He lives and works in Los Angeles and teaches animation at Riverside City College in California.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.willkim.net/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.willkim.net</a>

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