GIPHY Arts Sponsors the 7th Annual BITBANG International Festival of Animation, Video Games, and Digital Art.

This year, GIPHY Arts was a proud sponsor of the 7th annual BITBANG International Festival of Animation, Video Games, and Digital Art, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. BITBANG is the largest festival of its kind in Argentina, featuring innovative and experimental workshops, screenings, exhibitions, international competitions, collaborative activities and conferences celebrating animation, video games, and digital art from around the world.

Clip from: JEROBOAM by Bianca Caderas c/o BITBANG Festival

This year, the festival included 5070 participants and 50 events from October 25th, through the end of November. Workshops, events, and screenings were held in various locations around the city, with some screenings available online via Youtube as well.

Clip from: ENTROPIA by Flóra Anna Buda c/o BITBANG Festival

BITBANG features two competitions, one for animation, and one for video games. The animation competition features International and Latin American categories, and includes official selections of graduate films as well. Links to the winning films can be found here.

EMPTY PLACES by Geoffroy de Crécy

Official selection from BITBANG’s International Independent Video Game Competition can be found here as well.

SOGNI AL CAMPO by Magda Guidi & Mara Cerri

We invite you to check out an exciting collection of clips from films on BITBANG’s GIPHY channel, giphy.com/bitbangclub.

LITTLE MISS FATE by Joder von Rotz

You can learn more about BITBANG on their website, on Instagram @bitbangclub, and on Vimeo at BITBANG TV.