The 21st Seoul Independent Animation Festival
Seoul Indie-AniFest202518. SEP(THU).2025 ~ 23. SEP(TUE).2025
18th (2022)
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How to Survive the Heatwave and Stay Human
Ronni SHALEV, Qlon SHARABI 2021 0:07:48 2D Computer, 3D ComputerIt’s the hottest day of the year and Jerusalem is being devoured by a scorching heatwave! In the city center, three flatmates live in blissful ignorance under the cool caress of their air conditioner. But when the AC breaks down, one person must venture outside to find a new battery, and discover HOW TO SURVIVE THE HEATWAVE AND STAY HUMAN.
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MANHOLE
Abhishek VERMA, Jayesh PILLAI 2021 0:09:00 3D ComputerCompelled by the exigencies of caste identity, Amitabh, a law graduate, becomes a manual scavenger. One day, he decides to get inside a large unsafe sewer to clear a blockage. He neither has protective gear, nor the accompanying engineer to check for poisonous gases. Will Amitabh come out safely?
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Crocodile Pond
Yanrusi WANG 2021 0:13:36 2D ComputerThe postgraduate student Wang accidentally fell into the crocodile pond, and several citizens disappeared by the pond at the same time. The event continued to make news, and had attracted great attentions from social media. As the online discussion raged on, the truth became more and more intricate. In the end, Wang gave up climbing ashore, turning himself into a crocodile. The film is played on portrait mobile devices, and virtualizes a drowning accident. By imitating the fragmentary and random ways of seeing in people’s daily life with mobile phones, it presents a chaotic Rashomon effect in a pseudo-environment. The animated, fictional and mockumentary-like way of performance gives a self-reference to current we-media short videos, that the truth is twisted through communication, and that everything is true, or nothing is true. The tongue breaks bone, though itself has none. Wang was never hurt by the crocodile, but by the words of people onshore, and eventually became a crocodile that people avoid like the plague. Yet, who is the real cannibal crocodile?
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Elephant in Castle
Florence Yuk-ki LEE 2021 0:04:45 2D ComputerElephant in Castle is a 2D digital animation, created within the context of two strange years, 2019 and 2020. The work expresses a constant change within the artist’s inner world, to express the emotional, aesthetic, and tactile responses that she has to Hong Kong, the city where she grew up. Stepping into a new decade, the world is coming to an unprecedented and critical moment in history. The work is a reflection on contemporary political and social shifts conveyed by her sentimental responses to the personal stories and the events/incidents that took place in Hong Kong. The artist was inspired by the research topic and artworks relating to Topophilia. Topophilia, terms from Greek topos “place” and -philia, “love of”, is a “strong sense of place, which often becomes mixed with the sense of cultural identity among certain people and a love of certain aspects of such a place.” People in a city might come from different places originally, but they all form their own paths of connectivity and responses to the places we inhabit, and even to the particular site that they pass through occasionally.
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Holy Holocaust
Osi WALD, Noa BERAM-HERZBERG 2021 0:17:32 2D ComputerA dark family secret from the past is revealed unexpectedly and opens an abyss between two close friends: Jennifer, a German, discovers that she is the black granddaughter of a Notorious Nazi commander, and her life is turned upside down, while Noa, an Israeli, is doing whatever she can to prevent her life from turning.
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Opera
Janelle FENG 2022 0:03:02 2D ComputerA Peking Opera troupe performs at North America for the first time. Xutian, Maomao, and Chengyuan have different feelings about their upcoming performance.
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Night
Ahmad SALEH 2021 0:15:57 PuppetThe dust of war keeps the eyes sleepless. Night brings peace and sleep to all the people in the broken town. Only the eyes of the mother of the missing child stay resilient. Night must trick her into sleeping to save her soul.
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Mother
Subarna D 2021 0:04:57 DrawingAmayi is a story of a woman who is haunted by nightmares of her past and her possible future of becoming the next village circumciser. When she is asked to take up the job and circumcise her daughter, she realizes she can't conform to the traditions and the customs of her community, she must fight back.
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The Soloists
Mehrnaz ABDOLLAHINIA, Feben WOLDEHAWARIAT, Razahk ISSAKA, Celeste Jamneck, Yi LIU 2021 0:07:57 3D ComputerIn a small village ruled by ridiculous laws, three singing sisters and their dog rehearse for the Annual Autumn Festival. But an unexpected event will disrupt their plans.
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To Kill the Birds & the Bees
Calleen KOH Yee-lin 2021 0:11:00 Drawing, Clay, 기타A playful animation on the touchy topic of sex in Singapore. The film follows a pair of young twins, a secondary school prefect and a conservative housewife each having a sex-related encounter during the course of a day.