7:00pm MUSIC: Blk.wav feat. Frae-Frae & Shelley Nicole
8:00pm PAPER TRAILS, CHAIN REACTIONS
Guest curated by Lilli Carré
A collection of tactile animated films created on paper, using the constraints, techniques, and tooth of the page. Residue of actions and cycles reverberate in these films, in which mysterious scenarios and personal histories are fused and made tangible.
by Matthew Thurber. 2018, US, 1.5 min.
A straight-ahead watercolored xerox flicker animated compressed supernatural thriller road movie trying to unite themes of handwriting analysis, spirits, and internal combustion.
by Nora Rodriguez. 2021, US, 3 min.
Angels Going to Work is built from audio of my mother and grandmother discussing anxiety in the night. I’m interested in stories that take the shape of a spiral, routines—like the return to bed—that begin to outline larger stories. They are often about the ways loss finds form in the grooves worn into daily life. Like a hole thrown on a cartoon wall, they make physical what is only an absence.
by Sandra Desmazières. 2001, France, 6.5 min.
A nonsense day.
by Atsushi Wada. 2005, Japan, 8.5 min
A haptic animation with comfortable noses. I wish everyday was a day of nose.
by Kathryn Roake. 2014, US, 5 min.
A playful female dog who likes other female dogs gets into trouble at Coney Island.
by Kate Renshaw-Lewis. 2025, US, 6 min.
Busy Bodies is a hand-drawn animation that combines inkjet and screen printing techniques. Inspired by Rube Goldberg machines, the film explores the undisclosed production journey of easily disposable objects.
by Sam Gurry. 2024, US 1.5 min
"It’s about nothing, about everything, it’s about life." - Jonas Mekas.
"Every time I try to fly I fall without my wings, I feel so small" - Britney Spears.
An animated fanzine. What it would mean to take the ecstatic, the excessive, and the feminine seriously. What if fandom was a film theory?
by Paul Glabicki. 1985, US, 9.5 min.
A series of source objects (scissors, a barbell, piano, boxing ring, ladders, an hourglass, an arch) are presented, defined, demonstrated, discussed, spoken about, juxtaposed and progressively re-invented during the course of a multi-layered visual and aural "conversation." The film plays with language, the viewer's memory, assumptions about "familiar" objects, associations and gender, puns, hieroglyphic forms and conscious and unconscious processes of thinking and perception.
by Jodie Mack. 2010, US, 4 min.
A stroboscopic archive of 2010-era security envelopes from paychecks and student loan bills, cello by Christy LeMaster.
by Jennifer Levonian. 2012, US, 7.5 min.
Part documentary and part fiction, The Poetry Winner was made after a 24-hour artist residency at Bryn Mawr College over Commencement 2012. I tried to capture the spirit of college commencement as well as the college student’s messy process of self-discovery.
by Chris Sullivan. 1987, US, 9 min.
Death arrives as a late night custodian. In honor of its victims, a consolation variety show is performed. Drawn in silver pencil on brown paper.
by Hoji Tsuchiya. 2010, Japan, 9 min.
The shadow of a woman enters the life of the tuxedoed man. Eventually, he began to chase after the shadow of the woman.
Post-screening conversation with Nora Rodriguez, Jodie Mack & Kathryn Roake.
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