{"id":13079,"date":"2020-02-22T14:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T22:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=30000007528"},"modified":"2020-02-21T13:01:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T21:01:48","slug":"see-the-best-animated-short-films-from-around-the-world-at-the-art-theatre-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/see-the-best-animated-short-films-from-around-the-world-at-the-art-theatre-sunday","title":{"rendered":"See the best animated short films from around the world at the Art Theatre, Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The 21st Annual Animation Show of Shows Theatrical Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G5cxE9CPaIs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is a curated show with selections of the best animated short films created by students and professionals from around the world. That translates into 10 films from seven countries.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny how animation has so rapidly grown from Saturday morning fodder to an art form that is arguably the most imaginative\u00a0 and thought-provoking in filmmaking today.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some brief descriptions of the featured films, courtesy of event organizers:<\/p>\n<p>Personal relationships are at the heart of several of the films in this year\u2019s program, including Daria Kashcheeva\u2019s International Student Academy Award-winning puppet animation &#8220;Daughter,&#8221; a deeply moving exploration of the ties between a father and daughter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Fox and the Bird\u201d by Sam &amp; Fred Guillaume, is a beautifully observed fable about an unlikely friendship between the two eponymous characters.<\/p>\n<p>Filmmaker Michael Frei and game designer Mario von Rickenbach provide a more clinical view of human behavior in their mesmerizing &#8220;KIDS,&#8221;\u00a0which explores the nature of group dynamics.<\/p>\n<p>The question of individual identity informs both &#8220;Hounds&#8221; by Amit Cohen and Ido Shapira and &#8220;(Self-Narrative)&#8221; by G\u00e9raldine Charpentier. In the former, a highly domesticated dog undergoes a disturbing change when a pack of wild hounds gathers near his house, while the latter offers a clear-eyed and heartfelt look at a young girl\u2019s journey to self-realization as a transgender person.<\/p>\n<p>Joanna Lurie\u2019s mysterious and transcendent &#8220;Flowing Through Wonder&#8221; chronicles an extraordinary ritual and celebrates the transformative mystery that underlies life and death.<\/p>\n<p>Natalia Mirzoyan\u2019s\u00a0<em>Five Minutes to Sea<\/em> in which a young girl waits impatiently to go back in the sea, takes a more lighthearted approach while playing with conundrums of time and perspective.<\/p>\n<p>The program is rounded out by Gil Alkabetz\u2019s &#8220;Rubicon,&#8221; a frenetic and very funny hand-drawn animation based on the classic riddle about how to ferry a wolf, a sheep, and a cabbage across a river without something getting eaten.<\/p>\n<p><em>The 21st Annual Animation Show of Shows runs Friday, Feb. 21 to Sunday, Feb. 23, at the Art Theatre, located at 2025 E. Fourth St. Showtimes are 1 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. on Sunday. For more information or to buy tickets, click <a href=\"https:\/\/arttheatrelongbeach.org\/film\/21st-annual-animation-show-of-shows\/\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 21st Annual Animation Show of Shows runs Friday through Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"featured_media":70875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","pmpro_default_level":0,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","footnotes":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[7950],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[2890],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13079"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=13079"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}