
The International Animation Festival starts tonight, kids. And speaking of them, don't bring yours to tomorrow night's wonderfully smut-filled orgy of animated shorts, Top Drawers.
What's more, one lucky soul will get a free pair of tickets to tomorrow night's screening. You will have the chance to see such "playful, sexy shorts" as Signe Baumane's Teat Beat of Sex and Kelly Sears's Drift. So, the fifth person to send us an email to editor [at] sfist.com, with "Top Drawers I Want" in the subject line, will win the free pair of tix. [contest closed] Otherwise, the rest of yous has gots to pay.
Again, that's:
What: San Francisco International Animation Festival, "Top Drawers"
When: Friday, 11/9 (i.e., tomorrow)
Time: 7 p.m.
Where: Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema
(More info on Top Drawer after le jump.)
Don’t let the title of this shorts program fool you. While it does present hand-drawn work from master animators such as Joanna Quinn (Dreams and Desires: Family Ties), Georges Schwizgebel (Jeu) and Signe Baumane (Teat Beat of Sex), it also includes intensely crafted computer-generated imagery, claymation and stop-motion techniques. The program runs from highlight to highlight, including the Platform International Animation Award-winning I Met the Walrus, which features archival audio of a teenager’s interview with John Lennon; Annecy Festival standout Bully Beef; Wendy Morris’s conceptual rendition of connections between the colonial Belgian Congo and Germany’s invasion of Belgium; and two new works by local audience favorites Kelly Sears (Devil’s Canyon) and Semiconductor (200 Nanowebbers, Brilliant Noise). Sears’s Drift is the latest installment in her series on frontierism and madness. Semiconductor’s Magnetic Movie visualizes scientific concepts of magnetic forces and fields, based on interviews conducted at the NASA Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley. This program contains sexually explicit imagery and is not suitable for children.
Apnee (Claude Chabot, France, 4 min); Bully Beef (Wendy Morris, Belgium, 6 min); Dinner Table (Song E. Kim, South Korea/USA, 3 min); Dreams and Desires: Family Ties (Joanna Quinn, USA, 10 min); Drift (Kelly Sears, USA, 9 min); I Met the Walrus (Josh Raskin, Canada, 5 min); Irresistible Smile (Ami Lundholm, Finland, 7 min); Jeu (Georges Schwizgebel, Canada, 4 min); Magnetic Movie (Semiconductor: Joseph Gerhardt, Ruth Jarman), England, 5 min); Teat Beat of Sex (Signe Baumane, USA/Italy, 4 min); Theme (Kenji Hirata, USA, 8 min); Zlydni (Stepan Koval, Russia, 12 min)