Our animated selections this season offer you the opportunity to tap into a world you otherwise may not know, or perhaps may not wish to. Follow our film subjects as they experience feelings of loneliness, anxiety, confusion, grief, helplessness, and mania that could only be properly conveyed with this medium’s artistry. Through a variety of films using oil paints, stop-motion, mixed-media, and more you’ll be transported to alien worlds and fantastical situations, with emotionality we all know too well. Who knows how much you might relate to a channel-surfing puppet, a fanatical egret, or a blinking crimson balloon. Won’t you join us for a brief disorientation session? —Jonah Puskar

Program:

Razors | Griffin Hansen, USA, 5 min.
A troubled man with a razor in his head lashes out against his aquatic repairmen.

Seed | Cameron Macgowan, Canada, 7 min.
Two foragers on a trash-covered planet discover a particularly useful plant creature that they must care for.

A Home That Moves | Lottie Amie Bax, Netherlands, 3 mins.
The joy and pain of memory weigh on a young girl as she thinks of the homes she knew.

Sword of the Sun | Le Gentil Garçon, France, 15 min.
A meditation on states of being as conveyed by a sentient balloon and its handy transport.

I Beg Your Pardon | John W. Lustig, USA, 5 min.
After committing a terrible act, a man is more shaken to discover that he is the only one to actually care.

Dreamosphere | Adiva Fahrani Amir, USA, 5 min.
A hand-crafted explorer crash lands in very familiar terrain.

2nd Day and the End of the World | Sara Koppel, Denmark, 13 min.
A trip through the fears of succession & self-love in a world on the brink, and what respite we may provide each other in the chaos.

Mother | Melinda Dorothy Jacob, USA, 5 min.
As their home quickly becomes unrecognizable, a peculiar bird looks to a piece of machinery for guidance and protection.

Ball Lightning | Catriona Trina Baker, USA, 12 min.
The recounting of a surrogate grandmother, one with nothing but love to provide despite all she had to sacrifice.

Gobbledygook | Lizzete Flores & Nathaniel Elegino, USA, 12 min.
A girl’s encounters with an otherworldly being lure her into a realm on the other side of her screens.

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