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Swap Meet

Swap Meet

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Swap Meet

2015

0h 7m

6.0(1 votes)

Animation

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A collaborative experiment between 14 artists around the globe. Each artist creates a background, All backgrounds are traded randomly, and then animated upon freely.

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Directed by: Caleb Wood

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