World Animation Competition 2
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Fri 7 Nov15:30Hyde Park Picture House, LeedsScreen 1
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Sun 9 Nov13:45Everyman Cinema Leeds, LeedsScreen 4
 Stone of Destiny
One solitary stone embarks on a musical journey of self-discovery, as it ponders the meaning of life. Weighed down by self-doubt, this aimless martyr must begin to understand the importance of embracing your flaws and being your own destiny. |
 Fačuk
A woman expects the birth of her child in ritual isolation, cast out by a community that damns the product of her mortal 'sin'. Exploring the harshness of trad rurality, this Croatian folk tale contemplates timely stigma through a delicate historic lens. |
 Devil's Beacon
Entangled in the morbid curiosities of a roadside pitstop, a young raver's paranoia begins to take hold. With mind and body in distorted unison, supernatural forces lead him further into the ghostly Argentine wilderness, lost in visions of gruesome neon. |
 Progress Mining
Monday morning at the Progress Mining Company is a decaying, cubist nightmare of monotony. As one worker shows round a new employer, another campaigns for its closure and reconstruction, as the long-buried secrets of Sector Three quickly come to light. |
 DESK BUGS
A red desk becomes the pint-size home of procrastination, as a hoard of spritely desk bugs manifest and multiply. With chaos at every turn, these tiny terrors of distraction are the furry foragers of emphatic silliness and overstimulation. |
 God is shy
An existential train ride takes a strange turn, as hand-drawn anxieties and subconscious entities take collective form. As reality and imagination unite, a single thread of immersive fear is woven through life, death and all that comes in between. |
 Sappho
Enter the sensual world of Ancient Greek female author Sappho, combining fragments from her poetry and mixed multiplane animation. Originally erased from the male-dominated classical canon, this short takes us on a meditative journey through her life and work. |
 Ouais.
A girl is consumed by the loneliness of a bathroom mirror. As each intrusive thought overwhelms her tiled dwelling, so too does a body contorted by crippling self-esteem; too big and yet, not enough, for a world consumed by beauty standards. |
 Murmuration
An elderly man named Piet begins to transform into a bird, navigating the peculiar metamorphosis from his lowly carehome. As his body deteriorates, his spirit takes flight, departing the flow of one world to join the flock of another, where aging is a peaceful rebirth. |