Animation Night – 2026

Saturday, April 18, 9:15 PM

Happy to See You Again
Director: Laura Nicolas, Animation, Belgium, 6 min
The cycle of a love encounter, the repetition of mistakes, words and thoughts colliding.

So Many Different Things
Director: Sakshi Jain, Animation, USA, 3 min
A gridded series of over 1500 improvised drawings in a tiny sketchbook, each smaller than a centimeter, compiled digitally into an animation.

Ordinary Life
Director: Yoriko Mizushiri, Animation, France, Japan, 10 min
In an uncertain and fluctuating world, only the feeling of the body touching something, which exists only in this present reality, can be recognized as “now”. That moment is lovely.

A Kite Killed A Plane
Director: Daniel Sharoni, Animation, Israel, 5 min
The phenomenon of violence becomes embedded in the local space as a mundane between an inseparable part of existence itself.

Venezia Diorama
Director: Nicolas Piret, Animation, Belgium, 7 min
A set of postcards, captures the mythical city’s of Venice and its’ final moments of fragility inviting us to reflect on a city slowly eroding, yet suspended in time.

Swipe
Director: Patrick Smith, Animation, USA, 5 min
Fed up with dating apps, a woman literally assembles her perfect man from spare parts, only to discover the absurdity of algorithmic love.

Just One Peek
Director: Mulan Fu, Animation, USA, 5 min
A girl is pulled into her phone’s whirlwind of doomscrolling, vanity, and viral chaos, struggling to escape its addictive grip.

MRI
Director: Dougal Vecqueray, Animation, UK, 4 min
A patient named Tom goes for an MRI scan only to be transported into a galactic void.

Rest
Director: Ryotaro Miyajima, Animation, Japan, 5 min
When immersed in the contours swelling and waning in the forest of needles, the mundane world drifts away, and we only live to breathe.

The Man Cave
Director: Sarah Legow, Experimental, Portugal, 2 min
A brief, bewildering journey inside two young girls’ shared vision of manhood and an irreverent child’s eye view of male sexuality, seen through a proto-feminist lens.

Mis-Angel
Director: Wyatt Carson, Animation, UK, 6 min
A transgender girl explores an overlap of gender and sexual fantasy as she recalls a brief interaction with a stranger at a bus stop.

Disturbia
Director: Mira Yankova, Animation, Bulgaria, 6 min
Before our very eyes a strange human-bird hybrid undergoes constant transformation to cope with the omnipresent tensions of economical, ideological, military, and climatic threats.

The 12 Inch Pianist
Director: Lucas Ansel, Animation, USA, 8 min
A bar joke goes awry, unraveling into a surreal tale that explores the acceptance of self, others, and queer identity.

Evacuations
Director: Lilli Carré, Animation, USA, 7 min
Painted formless figures haunt recent photos of emptied-out public spaces. As cel-animated smear frames, they perform various repetitive acts in these settings, with movements expressing the helpless, frantic energy felt in our current moment. Earth and organs are emptied, situations are fled. The figures become displaced from their locations, as their environments dissolve and their printed record evaporates.

Dollhouse Elephant
Director: Jenny Jokela, Animation, Finland, 11 min
In a world that demands community participation, individual desires inevitably collide. A group of neighbors, each focused on their own goals, must learn to communicate and consider one another. But when small, everyday actions trigger unexpected consequences, they are forced into interactions that challenge their independence.