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Films in Competition 7: Animation
Main Theater - Michigan Theater Fri, Mar 24, 2017 9:30 PM

Ten recent animated films from near and far, featuring an artificial intelligence with the affective capacities of a kitten, memories of the "birds and the bees" talk, a suburban woman who can't stop growing fingers, a mother's alcohol addiction, the most notorious women's prison in East Germany, broken dolls and boiling stew, screen obsession and more.

Film Info
Event Type:Films in Competition 7: Animation
New Media
Shorts in Competition
Animation
Release Year:2016
Production Country:USA
Cast/Crew Info
Director:David Chai

Description

Texters texting, tweeters tweeting, likers liking, posters posting, Googlers Googling, Amazonians Amazoning, webheads surfing, snappers chatting, pinnters pinning, tubers tubing, tenders tindering, Netflixers chilling - are we binging too much? More connected than ever, but more distant by the day. Is humanity being swiped away?