Shorts 1: Eastern European Surrealism (15)

Part of Manipulate Festival 2024, the animated shorts programme celebrates extraordinary animation from around the globe, showcasing a dizzying range of styles, techniques, genres and ideas. The programme is co-curated with guest creatives, each looking at animation from different social and artistic perspectives.

Shorts 1 is co-curated with Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival in Glasgow and offers a unique collection of Eastern European surrealist animation from 1965 to 2022.

This screening has closed captions.

Content warning: Themes of mild violence, state oppression, sex, disease, death.
Contains depictions of mild violence (not photorealistic), blood, nudity, flickering and colourful images, flashing lights and some loud sounds.

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