Going Through the Motions (2015)

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Gym class can be tough. Someone is bound to lose an eye.

3:24 minutes, HD Video, Color, 5.1 Surround Sound

Technique: TVPaint
Voices: Caitlin Craggs, Nicholas Dagostino, Kevin Eskew, Beth Murphy, Blake Whittaker

Screenings
Centre Pompidou- Mon Oeil– Online Animation Screening (Paris, France)-  Spring 2020
SESI (Salon for Experimental Sound and Image) Boston Center for the Arts (USA)- 4/6/19
The Skin Has Eyes: Animated Visions- Boston Center for the Arts (USA)- 2/23-4/28, 2019
Centre Pompidou- Mon Oeil– Online Animation Screening (Paris, France)-  Spring 2017
CAA Moebius (Los Angeles, CA, USA)- 5/1/2017
4 Zivly/ 4 Elements Film Seminar (Banska Stiavnica, Slovakia)- 8/10-14, 2016
Insomnia Film Festival- 7/14- 7/17, 2016 (Yukhnovsky District, Russia)
Fest Anca- 6/29- 7/3, 2016 (Zilina, Slovakia)
Golden Kuker- Sofia International Animation Film Festival- 5/9- 5/15, 2016 (Sofia, Bulgaria)
Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation- Eyewash Series- 5/10/16 (Dartmouth University, Hannover, New Hampshire, USA)
Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film- 4/26- 5/1, 2016 (Germany)
AniScreen- 4/17/16 (Prague, Czech Republic)
Holland Animation Film Festival- 3/16- 3/20, 2016 (Holland)
GLAS Animation Festival- 3/3- 3/6, 2016 (Berkeley, CA, USA)
Animex Awards- 2/8- 2/12, 2016 (England)
Ghosting- 1/15/16 (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
GIRAF (The Giant Incandescent Resonating Animation Festival) 11/26- 11/29, 2015 (Calgary, Canada)
Sommets du Cinema d’Animation- 11/25- 11/29, 2015 (Montreal, Canada)
Etiuda & Anima Film Festival- 11/23- 11/28, 2015 (Krakow, Poland)
CutOut International Animated Short Film Festival- 11/12- 11/28, 2015 (Queretaro, Mexico)
KuanDu International Animation Festival- Calarts Special Selection- 10/24- 11/1, 2015 (Taiwan)
Primanima- 10/21- 10/24, 2015 (Budapest, Hungary)
KROK International Animation Festival- 9/27- 10/3, 2015 (Russia/Ukraine)
11th World Festival of Animated Film- 9/9- 9/13, 2015 (Varna, Bulgaria)
Calarts Film/Video Showcase: Experimental Animation Program, REDCAT- 4/30/15 (Los Angeles, CA, USA)

Awards
Special Mention, Sommets du Cinema du Animation, Montreal (Canada)
Best Workshop Film, Primanima (Hungary)

Find out more about the making of the film here:

Experience the Agony of Trying and Failing at Sports in Alan Jennings ‘Going Through the Motions’