1hr 23 mins // Digital Projection
Eye+Candy is a colorful program full of visually delectable shorts that will make you say ‘wow.’ Thought-provoking and a delight to the senses, these films balance fabulous style with serious substance.
Program:
Atmospheric Arrivals // dir. Ayo Tsalithaba // 2023 // 7 mins
This film is at once a living archive/polytemporal memory bank and a love letter to my other selves. I consider the act of revisiting my personal archives a time travelling practice and incorporating this into my films is an exercise in making said practice legible to others.
"Atmospheric Arrivals" is about home and the (im)possibility of return. The "atmospheric arrival" captures a means of coming into being through memory and imagination; by reaching across spacetimes to "fetch" parts of the self that may exist in elsewheres.
The Sketch // dir. Tomas Cali // 2023 // 8 mins
live model. Like me, she is transgender and an immigrant. As I draft her outlines, it is also myself that I learn to draw.
SKIN // dir. Leo Behrens // 2023 // 8 mins
SKIN is a poetic exploration of identity and self-discovery, using visual symbolism to depict a woman's transformation into a man. With the help of their inner manifestation, the ice man, they sheds their old skin and embraces their true identity.
Scaffold // dir. Billy Klotsa // 2023 // 11 mins
Fragments of bereavement and collapsing love appear in an isolated house between the land and the sea. Death arrives. The landscape shivers.
Earth to KB // dir. Em Shapiro // 2024 // 19 mins
A portrait of KB Brookins: a Black, queer, and trans writer from Texas, manifesting freedom in their present and future.
THESE KIDS DON’T GET IT MA // dir. Elle Jung // 2023 // 7 mins
Disfigured Flames // dir. Sepia Katsoolis // 2023 // 5 mins
"In a ritual to transform natural to artificial a white pigeon is sacrificed. Abstract direct animation bleeds into the landscapes of bodies of water surrounding Seattle. White text screen printed on film blurs into flame-like patterns. The text’s source is the surviving headlines and newspaper clippings from around the PNW about Robert Gaffney (1872-1916), a Transmasc who lived as a man openly for 20 years in Seattle."
EDGE // dir. Edmund Aleksander Krempiński, Jakub Dylewski // 2023 // 18 mins
EDGE is the film based on true story of the main character - Edmund, who deals with various forms of frustration rooted in living as a transgender person in highly opressive society. It consists of the series of absurd psychomagical acts leading to the final liberation and allegorical transition into the pearl.
Stray Cat Film Center is excited to serve as a satellite screening location for TRANSlations, a Seattle-based film festival screening works by and about trans persons!