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Another year bites the dust–thanks for making it a great one. We'll have next year's call for entries posted here by summer.

Strange Beauty shows striking and adventurous short films from around the world, including animation, underground, documentary, funky, and otherwise wholly unclassifiable works that lie somewhere between terrifying normality and sublime fever dreams.

The fourth annual festival happened at Manbites Dog Theater in gritty Durham, North Carolina on January 24-26, 2013.

Here's the lineup of films that we screened.

 
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Some special stuff at the festival:
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Friday, Jan 25
Durham Cinematheque presents:
CIRCLE SPIRAL SLOW

A brand new program featuring archival explorations from filmmaker and collector Tom Whiteside, with live music by Durham instrumental band Arrows Out.

"A film loop is a circle. Film on a reel is a spiral. Not everything is slow." –Tom Whiteside                

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Saturday, Jan 26 (evening show)
The Strange Beauty Aural Fixation
The popular audio-only portion of the festival returns, curated by Jennifer Deer, and featuring audio documentary and art that is best experienced in a dark room with strangers.

 
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Saturday, Jan 26
Unofficial Afterparty at Motorco
After Strange Beauty lets out for the night, Durham Cinematheque will screen JUST BUGS with live score as part of the
FONTANA CD RELEASE PARTY
 Also on the bill: Durham's hardest rockin' working class heroes THE WIGG REPORT!