

Fri, Jan 20
|Highways
"Animated Bazaar" Shorts Program
a Film Maudit 2.0 presentation
Time & Location
Jan 20, 2023, 8:15 PM – 10:00 PM
Highways, 1651 18th St, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA
About The Event
THIS PROGRAM FEATURES THE FOLLOWING FILMS:
TIME
2022 Dir. Steven Lapcevic USA
4:08
A man is subject to the repercussions of tampering with time.
Sacrificial Rabbit
2022
Dir. Qian Chen
UK 4:30
Qi’an attended a training camp based on the pyramid scheme, where she experienced three days of brainwashing. “Sacrificial Rabbit” builds on this experience of cult structures to re-examine the conflict and compromise between a social-operation mode and human nature.
Coucou Tchoutchou
2021
Dir. Charlie Mars France
3:20
Crumbs of Life
2020
Dir. Katarzyna Miechowicz
Poland 6:35
The Terrasite
2022
Dir. Matthew Buxbaum
USA
4:40
Loser Italian World War I pilot Giuseppe Mozzarella Prosciutto must save Earth
from a planet-eating claymation alien creature.
Sombra
2022
Dir. Leo Beltrán
Chile 3:24
In a dystopian world very similar to ours, a little boy mistreated by society makes a vertiginous escape.
Concentrate
2022
Dir. Angel Lam
USA
3:51
Pressurized orange juice veins. A reticent child stomachs normalized environmental pressures while living under a caregiver’s domineering control.
upside mimi ᴉɯᴉɯ uʍop
2021
Dr. Rachel Maclean UK
12:07
Meet Mimi, a fairytale-inspired doll who comes to life and sings “Mirror, mirror in my hand, who’s the cutest in the land?” but never gets a definitive answer.
Parked
2021
Dir. Yoon hei Cho USA
3:52
An incident involving an inconvenient panic attack at a parking lot. Such attacks sometimes strike when least expected.
Vadim on a Walk
2021
Dir. Sasha Svirsky Russia 7:51
Vadim is finally able to get out of a tight square space in which he is used to sitting. He embraces the brave new world and his renewed life.
Perfect City: The Mother
2022
Dir. Shengwei Zhou
USA
11:50
A strong wooden mother tries hard to carve her baby into a perfect human doll.
Amok
2022
Dir. Balázs Turai
Hungary / Romania
14:20
After losing his fiancée and his own good looks in a freak accident, Clyde must confront his inner demon.
ZX
2022 Dir. Alexandra Taylor & Ana Caro
UK
3:07
The story of the ZX Spectrum, the world’s first color computer, told through its iconic animation and music styles.
Salute to the Sun
2022
Dir. Darko Masnec
Croatia 8:50
A lovesick astronaut orbits the sun, absorbing its energy. But the sun is too big, causing their connection to break, and the astronaut must continue on his own.