Thursday, July 28 06pm
Waterfront Plaza at Brookfield Place
230 Vesey Street, New York, NY 10281
Experience some of the year’s best animated short films at the incomparable Animation Block Party!
6:00PM Doors Open
7:30PM Live Music by Sam Evian
8:30PM Films Begin
10:00PM Q&A with filmmakers
THE FILMS
Animation Block 2016 Signal Film (Dana Sink | Harrisburg, PA | 1 min.)
Perfect Houseguest (Ru Kuwahata | Baltimore, MD | 2 min.)
A house is visited by a clean, organized and well-mannered guest.
Rolling (Matthew Christensen | USA | 3 min.)
A never ending ride down a grassy hill full of obstacles.
Jeannie’s Tablet (Alex Cline | Los Angeles, CA | 2 min.)
Jeannie loves her tablet!
The Leak and the Clog (Alayna Cabral | Massachusetts College of Art and Design | 7 min.)
About a man and a dog that live in a cube floating in the darkest part of the ocean.
Ignite (Cailey Tervo | Columbus College of Art and Design | 4 min.)
After being rejected by its herd, a ‘Cheetal’ finds itself the target of a fearsome predator.
Arrival (Alex Myung | New York, NY | 23 min.)
Sometimes escaping into life’s adventures isn’t enough.
The Troubadour’s Green Room (Bryan Brinkman | New York, NY | 3 min.)
Experimental Music Video created for and inspired by ‘The Troubadour’s Green Room’
The Unnatural (Marco Sanchez | Chile | 5 min.)
A girl, a man and a monster wander through the dark.
Bathroom Boarder (Katie Nash | UK | 1 min.)
A playful experiment using motion tracking and 3D animation.
Tombes & Manèges (Nicolas Albrecht, Jérémie Auray, Alexandre Garnier, Antoine Giuliani, Sandrine Normand, Ambre Pochet and Marc Visintin | 7 min.)
In his isolated cemetery, a rather boorish gravedigger tries to amuse his son in a rather silly way…
Sisters (David Chontos | Psyop | 4 min.)
Part exercise of passion, and part love letter. A fragment of some lost, tragic opera.
Chez Moi (Phuong Mai Nguyen | Paris, France | 12 min.)
Hugo’s mother is back home. The day after, when Hugo wakes up, he finds black feathers all over his house.
Floovy (Ben Meinhardt | Canada | 1 min.)
Your favorite wild giraffe meets an elderly woman.
Vocabulary (Becky James | Brooklyn, NY | 4 min.)
Covetous Butterfly wants something from his serpentine compatriot, but what?
MUSIC
Sam Evian
Sam Evian is a new music project from New York City, and the latest signing to Saddle Creek.
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