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Showcase A
Bella Donna of Madness (Experimental Animation)
Cheeky Neons
Director(s):
Eaven Harrington
Mischief takes place in the zany workshop of a stylistic robot.
Horangi
Director(s):
Lynn Kim
HORANGI is an animated film based on a dream where I arose to find myself in a field of tigers. The film seeks to capture the feelings of fear, admiration, conflict and similarity between the tiger and myself, and envisions what kind of tenuous harmony we might find together.
Exhale
Director(s):
Ella Cox
With 400 sheets of paper, 37,213 square inches, and 3,100 square feet of frames, and 2388 total frames, "EXHALE" adopts the technique of mixed media animation to externalize the complex, overly vibrant, and garish sensations of a ptsd flashback.
The Music of the Spheres
Director(s):
Jennifer Linton
Three celestial beings contemplate a post-human Earth where newly hybridized lifeforms have evolved out of the debris of the Anthropocene. Combining references to the hermetic art of alchemy, Catholic liturgical art, and the iconography of the Tarot, this film blends cosmology with an urgent message of ecology
Colorful Colorado Nails
Director(s):
Monica Panzarino
Inspired by Phil Morton's classic 1976 video, “Colorful Colorado”, as well as Panzarino’s first artist's residency at Signal Culture’s new studio space in Loveland, Colorado. Panzarino processes footage of a drive through Rocky Mountain National Park using Signal Culture's Wobbulator, Jones MVIP Eurorack module (an analog video synthesizer), and Maelstrom software app.
This footage is then chromakeyed onto Panzarino's green screen-colored nails as she works with the tools in Signal Culture's studio. This video captures the transformative quality of Colorado's natural beauty and stunning landscapes while guiding viewers through a portal from analog to digital image processing.
Film courtesy of V-tape
InConSisTent
Director(s):
Indra J. Adler
Claustraphobic Framing. Noise, a streetlight flashes, darkness, lights, lights in space, a whispered voice as Haiku, noise, a streetlight flashes.
17 seconds long (not including title and credits) for each Haiku syllable.
DIVINITY PIXEL
Director(s):
Kirs Thoen
Divinity Pixel lingers within the near futility between desire and knowing on the shadowy path of transcendence.
Pic Pic
Director(s):
Carol-Ann Belzil-Normand
Pic Pic is an experimental animated film that metaphorically and conceptually reveals an erotic and exhilarating dimension of touching.
Lǎo Lǎo
Director(s):
Yang Hu
Rendered in charcoal on a single sheet of paper, the animation journeys through the family portraits orchestrated by grandma throughout her life.
As each image is drawn, erased, and redrawn, the surface accumulates charcoal residue much like how past memories leave faint marks on us. Much like living itself, it can only move forward.
Eventually, the film unfolds into a reflection on the end and beginning of life.
Youth and Altered States (Narrative)
Snippets
Director(s):
Robin August Grebenisan, Yara ter Veer
Two young adults are confronted by compulsory heterosexuality and the gender binary, feeling pressured into conforming. Through self-reflection and mutual support, they find their own paths and break free from the expectations that were imposed on them. Together they find the courage to be themselves in a world that doesn’t seem ready for them.
Storybook Apocalypse (or, The Ship's Cat)
Director(s):
Gina Marie Napolitan
Originally conceived as a toy theater performance piece, Storybook Apocalypse (or, The Ship’s Cat) takes its cues from Robert Louis Stevenson-style “boys’ adventure” stories. The piece aims to turn this template inside-out, building an introspective story focused on the interior life of a runaway child who tries to stow away on a merchant ship. Part bedtime story, part melodrama.
Collapse
Director(s):
Weiyi Chen
A young girl, trapped in the cycle of long-term sexual harassment at school, begins experiencing vivid hallucinations. These visions blur the line between memory and imagination, unfolding like fragmented flashbacks that feel indistinguishably real—forcing her to relive the trauma as if it were part of her own past.
Gummy Worms
Director(s):
Sophie Lee Bennett
Bunny is a new recruit to the coveted agency "The Animals." Ze seems to have it all: a partner, a makeshift family, a job… Which in this world is hard to come by, but everything changes one day on the way to the Animals’ monthly baseball game.
The Runaway
Director(s):
Jordan McLaughlin
As a reckless vampire blows off steam at a seaside motel, she happens upon a young, susceptible girl, far from home.
Cockroach
Director(s):
Heather Older
Juliette tries to survive a recent breakup with her longtime girlfriend by chronically masturbating and trying to convince herself to start dating men. Her delirium is finally relieved (sort of) by an unexpected stranger. Like cockroaches, love always finds a way to survive against the odds.
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Music Video
Ghost
Director(s):
Brina Palencia
Music video for Brina Palencia’s song “Ghost.” A young girl meddles in a magic she shouldn’t have.
Showcase B
Psychotropic Films
"2nd Day & the End of the World"
Director(s):
Sara Koppel
“2nd Day & the End of the World”
It is a 12 minutes handrawn op paper, Hyper-Family-Drama about processes of secession, post-traumatic attacks, tempting body conditions & powerless loneliness in a climate-catastropic universe.
How to Make Yourself Miserable
Director(s):
Elizabeth Katz
How to Make Yourself Miserable is a darkly comic self-help guide presented by a young woman’s personified Toxic Mind, offering step-by-step instructions on how to destroy her own happiness — all in the name of love. As she follows the advice into obsession, self-erasure, and heartbreak, the film exposes how internalized misogyny and romantic fantasy masquerade as self-improvement, until she finally turns the script back on the voice that’s been controlling her.
91 Times Smash
Director(s):
Yuxin Yang
When the past refuses to stay buried, sorrow becomes a wet journey. Following the lead of a bowl, she drifts through ruins of memory, love, and a truth too painful to face. Trauma doesn't end—it transforms.
Pretty Ugly Creature
Director(s):
Cody Leonardo DeTurk
A friend group's day at the beach takes an unexpected turn when Kai tries to magically overcome body dysmorphia once and for all.
Beauty Sleep
Director(s):
Jasmine Emma De Silva
Beauty Sleep is a retro futuristic short film about beauty, identity, and the dangerous pursuit of perfection.
In the Beauty Sleep world, cosmetic enhancement is more extreme than our own. New boobs, butts and faces can be purchased, sewn on and bedazzled to your choosing.
And the latest trend? A living embalment, where teenage girls, for their Sweet 16, emerge from a sparkling coffin instead of a giant cake.
But when an eccentric mortician, trapped under the patriarchal thumb of her controlling boss, accidentally kills a client, she sees a twisted chance to escape. As the clock ticks, she plots her way out by stealing “the face” from the client, but not before giving the dead girl the most bizarrely beautiful makeover of her afterlife. Beauty Sleep is a dark, satirical dive into perfection, creativity, and control.
Gore GAL-ore
The Cure
Director(s):
Sarah Grey
A young skeptic begrudgingly visits a faith healer to cure her migraines but ends up getting more than she bargained for.
Dolls of Mount Mary
Director(s):
Jessica Andrew
Seventeen year old Camille returns to Mount Mary, an isolated all girls catholic boarding school, for her final year. The arrival of a new textiles teacher, Mr Plum, quickly stirs up a commotion among the school girls. He appears to be outwardly charming but really is harbouring a sinister secret. Camille becomes suspicious of Mr Plum after her best friend Gracie begins making sexist remarks that do not align with her usual character, these remarks taking place following her first textiles class with Mr Plum. Through her detective skills Camille soon discovers that Mr Plum is using dark magic and voodoo dolls in order to manipulate and subvert the school girls back into their traditional gender roles. This discovery pushes Camille into a chilling fight for her freedom.
Slush
Director(s):
Ashley George
Frankie reunites with her toxic community and must tap into her dark side to survive unscathed.
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