MAFF Loves Armenia: David Sahakyan - Woozy Tunes

MAFF Loves Armenia: Khoren Matevosyan

DON'T KNOW WHERE GOING

"A little animated conversation between Peter Millard and me. We drew 250 frames each, than swapped frames. I animated on his sequence, and he did the same thing on mine. Without knowing where the other person was going, we animated straight ahead without a plan. This is what came out of it." -Reka Bucsi

ILLUSION - Short

A wizard is concealing a secret from his partner. Although their love seems to flourish, this hidden secret prevents their relationship from progressing. Will their relationship remain this way forever? A film by Pimlada Pattarachaidaecharuch

Intermission

Repetitive still standing movement, an exploration of the visual image for its own sake. A projection of mental images, which are formed while listening to music. From the simple act of drawing a line, to the intricate movement and complex structure of animation.

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UnravelingResonance

A wildly bizarre and hallucinatory film that catapults you into the absurd day in the life of a few orchestra members. Brace yourself for a journey through a dimension where melodies warp, reality distorts, and the laws of physics unravel like a twisted knot. In this bewildering dystopia, the musicians find themselves trapped in a symphonic nightmare, where harmonies turn into cacophonous nightmares. Witness their desperate struggle to maintain sanity as their instruments transform into sentient creatures, conducting themselves with a life of their own. Prepare to be astounded as the orchestra members navigate through surreal landscapes, battling surreal adversaries like giant metronomes and rebellious sheet music.

Parasite in Paradise | uglysiumai

Parasite in Paradise is a holiday advertisement reflecting on the materialism in ritual practice. In Chinese culture, Zhizha (紙紮) is used in ancestral worship to ensure that the spirit has sufficient needs in the paradise. Zhizha are usually substitutes of basic necessities such as shelters, transportation and food. As materialist culture took over China, Zhizha became more extravagant. This animation questions whether we should bring materialism to the afterlife.

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Gvantsa Jishkariani’s ‘𝓘 𝓗𝓪𝓽𝓮 𝓟𝓸𝓮𝓽𝓻𝔂, 𝓸𝓻 𝓗𝓸𝔀 𝓣𝓸 𝓑𝓮 𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂’.

The Why Not Gallery presents Gvantsa Jishkariani’s solo show. With the intensity characteristic to the artist, the exhibition turns into a total installation, where the viewer gets lost in the whirlwinds of information flows and visual stimulation. The main source of inspiration for the artist is her immediate environment, the socio-political situation that forms the reality around - a busy, DIY chaos, at times toxic, uneven, disordered, all-engulfing tsunami that one tries to survive in vain. Although this dichotomy between the collective and the individual, between the normative and the non-standard, is a subject of constant research and inspiration for the artist, it has never before been illustrated with such intensity in her work. The chaos in the exhibition space is superimposed with gentle, aesthetic works filled with special sensitivity. Beautiful giant mosaic flowers grow out of now trash newsreels; timeless, sublime landscapes offer a refuge; bold paintings drawn with free brushstroke promise a different reality.

MAFF ♥s 🇬🇪: Nika Qutelia

Georgian artist working in the direction of digital art. In the past, the artist was actively involved in music, soon decided to devote himself entirely to visual art, from collages on a mobile device to abstract 3D renders. He calls his self-expression "Phantom bridges between the past and the future." Through his works, the artist shows a subtle connection between violent fantasy and everyday reality, between innermost memories and our self.