Film
Animation Block Summer Mix, Volume One
- 2PM
A playful mix of animated shorts about forest-dwelling elves, housecat hijinks, diamond thievery, a lonely lighthouse keeper, and more!
Dir. Adam Ansorge, 15 sec
Roadwork wordplay in this year’s festival introduction.
Dir. Emily Zullo, 3 min
It’s closing time at Power Records.
Dir. Sarah Schmidt, 4 min
Bunny's friends take her on a night-on-the-town to celebrate her Vegan Anniversary.
Dir. Dena Springer, 9min
A pre-teen who exists in an artificially constructed world is aware that something is changing.
Dir. Chris Ullens, 3 min
Somewhere in an enigmatic dystopian future, a queen is entertained by her brutal talent show.
Dir. Jack Gray, 4min
Day after day, inhabitants of the Menagerie play out their daily lives like clockwork.
Dir. Chia-Hsuan Ho, 5min
The big elf and the small elf live in a little cabin in the woods.
Dir. Samantha Aquilino,4 min
A lobster, a cat and a deer. Dangerous rebels. A human, sometimes here and sometimes there.
Dir. Nikolas Protopapas, 1min
Chill bathroom break in the forest.
Dir. Alistair Inkwell, 2min
Rotoscope style music video mimics the energy of the creative process where the idea “clicks.”
Dir. Christopher Bennett, 4 min
Three friends play a video game, each player chooses a character representing their inner self.
Dir. Katelyn Costello, 5 min
Cat by circumstance, housecat by choice.
Dir. Peter Ahern, 5 min
The blind date woes of Rick and Becky (who has something in her eye and her closet).
Dir. Maya Moes, 1 min
A spunky thief sneaks into a jewelry museum to steal a huge diamond.
Dir. Sarah Steidle, 3 min
Amidst a colorful world, a young woman in shades of gray fears of spreading it to others.
Dir. Zach Tolchinsky, 11 min
A botanist quarantined in an abandoned train station spends his days fighting to survive.
Dir. Anthony Senatore, 3 min
An invisible man wants to become famous so he can finally be seen.
Dir. Félix-Antoine Garneau-Chouinard, 5 min
The foghorn blows. A lighthouse keeper is alone on the quay.
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Jonni Phillips’s Barber Westchester centers on Barber navigating family life, a cult preacher dad, and complicated friendships while getting an internship at NASA only to find out that space is fake.
In this kaleidoscopic universe of animated shorts, a sea beast seeks, a boy saves his local cinema, nightmares return, and gender transition ... and that's just a glimpse.
This animated documentary recreates the historic Chicago 8 case where anti-war defendants were accused of inciting a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.