Animation Night – 2025
Friday, April 11, 9:15 PM
The Looking Game
Director: Ann Upton, Experimental, UK, 7min
Eyes are tracked and attentions plotted as a fictitious audience follows the narrator’s orders. They are divided by the screen and though they try, neither can see through to the other side. We can’t be sure if the bond they form is reciprocal, or if the audience was ever even there to begin with.
A Pleasure
Director: Sonia Estevez, Animation, Spain, 4 min
A succession of ordinary actions and situations show how little is needed to feel good!
Speed Reader
Director: Jennifer Levonian, Animation, Spain, 5 min
Speed Reader follows a set of identical twins as their lives weave in and out of one another, creating a poignant portrayal of what it is to see and be seen or not seen by loved ones through the vicissitudes of life.
Contradiction of Emptiness
Director: Irina Rubina, Animation, Canada, 3 min
An inner monologue between two languages and identities. Between the black and white of the pinscreen.
No Vacancy
Director: Miguel Rodrick, Animation, Colombia, USA, 8 min
The unraveling mind of Jack, depicted through a dilapidated motel. He navigates chaotic nights filled with mysterious phone calls, disruptive guests, childhood humiliation and battles with addiction.
Percebes
Directors: Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves, Animation, Portugal, 12 min
With the sea and the urban Algarve as a background, we follow a complete cycle of the life of a special shellfish called Percebes, goose barnacle.
On Hold
Director: Delia Hess, Animation, Switzerland, 8 min
A young woman is stuck in the hold queue of a telephone hotline.
Freelance
Directors: Luciano A. Muñoz Sessarego, Magnus I. Møller, Peter Smith, Animation, Denmark, 3 min
A young hopefull knight reports for duty at the kings court. Little does he know that slaying dragons might now be his biggest challenge.
Caries
Director: Aline Höchli, Animation, Switzerland, 10 min
Eager to create a monumental work of art, a shaman remains blissfully unaware that she is painting her murals inside the mouth of a vain weather presenter.
Jour De Vent
Directors: Martin Chailloux, Ai Kim Crespin, Elise Golfouse, Chloe Lab, Hugo Taillez, Camille Truding, Animation, France, 7 min
The Great Annual Party of the Creatures of the Moon
Director: Francis Desharnais, Animation, Canada, 3 min
Humans have finally left the moon! Let’s party!
Hunky Dory
Director: Steven Vander Meer, Music Video, USA, 6 min
Hunky Dory juxtaposes scenes of animal life with images of human existence, observing the quirky and unexpected ways in which we are similar. The meticulously hand-drawn animation is a visual smorgasbord, moving and morphing in perfect time to the banjo music of Béla Fleck and his bandmates in My Bluegrass Heart.
No Room
Director: Jelena Oroz, Animation, Croatia, 7 min
In this film, cars have legs. Maybe that is why they feel free to use the pavement as they please. There is no room, but could we perhaps be a little more considerate?
Tennis, Oranges
Director: Sean Pecknold, Animation, USA, 11 min
A robotic vacuum suffering from burnout quits its job at a hospital and sets out to find community and a greater purpose on a quiet street where two lonely rabbits are stuck in perpetual loops.
A Bird Hit My Window and Now I’m a Lesbian
Directors: Carmela Marie Murphy, AJ Dubler, Animation, USA, 8 min
After a mysterious girl shows up at Gray’s doorstep holding the corpse of a bird that had just cracked her window, an impromptu bird funeral changes the way Gray views herself and her lesbian identity.
Retirement Plan
Director: John Kelly, Animation, Ireland, 8 min
At apathy with his life, Ray dreams of the beauty and joy he will find in retirement.