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Handsome Devil

Handsome Devil

DANIEL BARROW | CANADA | 2025 | 4 MIN | ENGLISH

DANIEL BARROW | CANADA | 2025 | 4 MIN | ENGLISH

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Synopsis

A 'sissy devil' explores the depths of internet intelligence by conducting an 'advanced search' on an outdated search engine. Meanwhile, a female artist sketches her destiny.

Filmmaker Bio

Over the last twenty years, Barrow has used obsolete technologies to present pictorial narratives, merging the methods and cultural histories of cinema, comic books, animation, shadow puppetry and magic lantern shows. Barrow is best known for adapting comic book narratives into "manual" forms of animation by projecting, layering and manipulating drawings on an overhead projector during live performances.

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