ANIMATION BLOCK PARTY AT ROOFTOP FILMS, FRIDAY JULY 25TH
ABP Intro (before all shows): David Schlafman and Evan Sussman
Intelligent Life: Michael Langan (1 min)
A "green" public service message from ABP and Michael Langan.
Kid Show: Tom Deslongchamp (2:45 min)
Watch children sing, dance, draw and jump.
The Adventures of Tommy T-Bone: David Icely (:45 seconds)
With the help of his toaster friend, Tommy avoids the chopping block.
Chef Barry: Chelsea Manifold (1 min)
Chef Barry is the ultimate cable-access guide to stoner cooking.
Lotions Eleven: Matt Lee (2 min)
The opening chapter of the popular Lotions series with all of today's favorite Hollywood megastars.
Burnout: Alex Cormack (1:20 min)
Still images flicker into a crazed car chase.
Vincent Security: Ashley Holzwasser (1 min)
Old school guard, Vincent gives the "new guy" a tour of the office.
I Live In The Woods: Max Winston (3 min)
A woodsman's manic journey and confrontation with America's God.
Taxi Guy: Hubert Chan (2 min)
A day in the life of a city cab driver.
Roommates: Mike Hollingsworth (2 min)
Bennie confronts Matt about problems in the apartment.
Zombie Movie: Garrett K. and Taylor Armstrong (1 min)
A zombie decapitates everything in his path of destruction.
Bush Vs. Bin Laden: Darren Way (2 min)
G. W. Bush versus Osama Bin Laden in a stop-motion Western shootout!
PSA for Pedophiles: Luis Cerritos (1 min)
A warning to the world from Luis Cerritos and friends.
Lupo Dentro: Gabriele Diaferia (5 min)
A series of demented gags in a bizarre world inhabited by fairytale characters.
The Flower Colour Sound Cartoon: Phil Dubrovsky and Dale Hayward (2 min)
An epic tale of an optimistic flower.
Lunch Lady: Steve Stark (1 min)
Don't mess with the Lunch Lady, ever.
Feast: Kerpely Adel, JiHyun Ahn (3 min)
A fat man keeps eating and eating. This is a story about the biter and the bitten.
Breakfast Outtake: Bob Fox (:30 seconds)
Greg and Christian don't order the usual.
Magnetic Squirrel — Dog Dazed: Patrick Mallek (2 min)
The Magnetic Squirrel avoids various obstacles in route to his delicious nuts.
Puke Bug: Jeremie Duval (1:30 min)
That zany puke bug steals a penny from his nemesis, the non-puke bug.
Conflict Resolution: All Things Media (1:44 min)
Opie and Jimmy work out their differences the only way they know how.
Team Yo Shimbo: Chester Knebel and Will White (1:20 min)
The hard streets of the playground basketball to the most extreme.
A Letter to Colleen: London Squared (8:30 min)
Andy writes to Colleen in an attempt to put his 18th birthday demons to rest.
Cuddle Sticks: Mike Geiger (2:40 min)
A boy and his favorite popsicle-like snack work their magic.
Ziptoc: Vera Wing Lui (2 min)
A story about a little girl who loves to keep everything fresh.
Blindspot: Norah Solorzano (5 min)
A surreal film interprets the singular agonies of childhood and of being oneself.
BullHorn: Nathan Gooden (5 min)
A Western genre short, exploring of the beginning of hate and revenge.
Meet The American States: Tommy Cannon (2 min)
Introducing America.
Sudden Change: Preston Spurlock (2 min)
The wonders of the female menstrual cycle.
Tales for Cruel People: Hans Blume, Igor Buharov, Ivan Buharov (6:45 min)
Sad stories about happiness.
In The Beginning: Choom Lam (3:45 min)
A tale about how the universe began has a very unexpected end.
Elephant Girl: David Lobser (5 min)
Two sisters who are more than sisters.
Year of the Polygon: Tim Dormady, Zane Kozak, Yurie Rocha (2 min)
A rebel takes us on a tour of a conceptual E-space 'Mega Excellent City'.
ABP Outro (after all shows): Adam Ansorge
ANIMATION BLOCK PARTY AT BAM CINEMATEK, PROGRAM ONE, SATURDAY JULY 26TH (2PM AND 6:50PM)
Perfectland — The Egg Factory: Ben Meinhardt (3 min)
An Eggorthanus Unicornus is forced to mass-produce golden eggs.
Air: Ajit Menon (1 min)
This is an abstract and very oblique look at smoking... It's all 'air' after all.
Trepan Hole: Andy Cahill (6 min)
Kind of like a hole in your head with spastic movement and concentric circles.
In Search of the Colors: Will Kim (8 min)
Will Kim's experience at a home for people with developmental disabilities.
Ideation: Jeremiah Dickey (1 min)
An ancient allegory, ever increasingly more apropos to our times.
Illuminant: Tobias Stretch (5 min)
A stop motion animation film created from nearly 4,000 photographs.
5 Tears: Colin V. Barton (3:30 min)
This all "scratch-on" animation purges the mind of unwanted thoughts.
Invisible Croissants: Andy Windak (6 min)
Chasing an ice cream truck through a dreamlike world.
Last Time In Clerkenwell: Alex Budovsky (4 min)
Another chapter in the adventures of the Royal Legion of Birds.
This is J03: Once Were Farmers (3 min)
An 8bit digital man stuck in our 21st century world searches for a way home.
Intelligent Design: Wojtek Skowron (5 min)
A short movie about creation of life on earth.
Optech 1: Emma Sterling and Dan Monceaux (3 min)
An experiment with abstracting and animating high-contrast geometric forms.
One Skin: Gudrun Cram-Drach (10 min)
A woman torn between childhood expectations and perceived responsibilities.
Etymology: Matt Broach (4:20 min)
An autobiographical dictionary.
Escaping is Easy: Sarah Moore (2 min)
A man goes through the dreamlike cycles of his regular day.
Muto: Blu (7 min)
An ambiguous animation painted on public walls.
Yeasayer — Wait for the Summer: Mixtape Club (3:30 min)
Migrating beetles, apple orbits and primal spirits through the seasons.
Procrastination: Johnny Kelly (4:15 min)
Animated comic about the meaning of procrastination
ANIMATION BLOCK PARTY AT BAM CINEMATEK, PROGRAM TWO, SATURDAY JULY 26TH (4:30PM AND 9:15PM)
Perfectland — Harvest Time: Ben Meinhardt (3 min)
The Jloopus' only source of food is stolen and packaged to be sold in stores.
Dive: Tyquane Wright (1 min)
An abstract visualization of the filmmaker's creative process.
Hot Dog: Bill Plympton (5:40 min)
Hot Dog joins the firehouse to save the world, which of course backfires.
Guy Talk: Rich Gorey (:12 seconds)
Mouse buddies talk smack in an airplane.
Teat Beat of Sex - Episode Nine — Graveyard: Signe Baumane (1:43 min)
A take on sex exclusively from a woman's point of view.
Common Scents: Steve Whitehouse (3 min)
A tale of lust, greed and the overwhelmeing desire to smell good.
Cramer Collection: Jason Doll (2 min)
An animated user guide to the "Cramer Collection".
The Bear: Eva Michon (7 min)
A beast one-thousand times more ravenous than an ex-wife!
Outisde Agitator: Morgan Miller (3:48 min)
A day in the life of a protestor.
Death By Dying: Anton Bogaty (2:12 min)
Movie night makes for disturbing insomnia and nightmares.
Ark: Grzegorz Jonkajtys (8 min)
The only remaining survivors of a global disaster escape to the sea.
Bob and Julia: Jee Hyun Yoo (3 min)
While blind date passion between Bob and Julia grows...
Viola: Shih-Ting Hung (9 min)
Little giant Viola steps outside of her own world to reach out for an adventure.
Lapsus: Juan Pablo Zaramella (3:30 min)
A curious nun ventures into the darker side of her animated world.
Flute Babies: Gretta Johnson (4 min)
An imaginative cat and a lonely alligator meet each other.
To Shoot A Rurf: Shane Sheils (9 min)
A drunken man attempts to sober up after bingeing on mind-altering drink 'rurf'.
Einstein's Riddle: Gina Kamentsky (3:30 min)
Kools are smoked and the Ukrainian drinks tea but who owns the Zebra?
Bushwacker: Kal Goudey (9 min)
A cowboy president searches Afghanistan for the worlds most wanted fugitive.
ANIMATION BLOCK PARTY AT BAM CINEMATEK, PROGRAM THREE, SUNDAY JULY 27TH (2PM AND 6:50PM)
Perfectland — Conveinient Disposal: Ben Meinhardt (3 min)
Hazardous waste is dumped into the water, mutating Pollywogis Chorusus.
PK-Granny: Jo Meuris (2 min)
A little old lady is mugged by a man on a bicycle.
Tickle Me Silly: Miguel Martinez-Joffre (8 min)
A young raccoon sheriff struggles to stop El Pinto's tickling crime spree.
Wolverine and Batman: Cliff Galbraith (2 min)
Batman and Wolverine in a dive bar on the outskirts of Gotham City.
24 Frames: Brad Pattullo (18 min)
A mockumentary about a stop-motion production at an art college.
Jungle Story: Richard Gorey (:10 seconds)
Talking animals in forest.
Edmund: Steven Umbleby (3 min)
Crashing on a planet, a boy must defeat an alien or be sent to a dreaded bath!
Burley: Gareth Cowen and Dave Edwardz (9 min)
A young tetra fish, one of a million in her school, just wants some attention.
A Fly Film: Bryan Brinkman (1:30 min)
Stop motion fly zapping action.
I Am Pillowcat: Elaine Lee (5:30 min)
Our hero wanders through the dark, until an accidental collision occurs.
Goobees: Texas A&M Viz Lab (3 min)
A colorfully dark tale of how candy is made.
Operation Fish: Jeff Riley (10:30 min)
A secret agent is dispatched to rescue a child's goldfish.
A My Life at 26 — Shortoon: Stephen Leonard (:50 seconds)
Abe bumps into a girl.
Greek Mythology: Tom Kyzivat (8:50 min)
Detailing the myths of Greek lore from Hercules and beyond.
I, Zombie: Danny Curtain (4:30 min)
It's not easy to make friends, especially if that friend is Patrick Dempsey.
ANIMATION BLOCK PARTY AT BAM CINEMATEK, PROGRAM FOUR, SUNDAY JULY 27TH (4:30PM AND 9:15PM)
Perfectland — As Promised: Ben Meinhardt (3 min)
A busy city is built over Perfectland, resulting in mass mutation.
Fantaisie in Bubblewrap: Arthur Metcalf (4:20 min)
A whimsical jaunt through the world of bubblewrap.
The Friendly Ghost: Rich Gorey (:12 seconds)
A vast realization from a young ghost.
The Pearce Sisters: Luis Cook (9:15 min)
An amusingly bleak hearted tale of two weather lashed old spinsters.
Nannyless: Anka Blaszczyk (2:30 min)
A little boy and his babysitter quarrel.
The Things She Would Tell Me: Miryam Welbourne (2:15 min)
A middle-aged woman deals with her son's heroin addiction.
The Border: Maya Lior (3 min)
Events based on a personal childhood experience in Israel during the Gulf War.
Germans in the Woods: Rauch Brothers (3 min)
A World War II veteran remembers a soldier he killed at the Battle of the Bulge.
ECT — The Story of Two Women: Laura Piraino (5 min)
The experiences of two women with depression and electroconvulsive therapy.
For The Love of God: Joe Tucker (11 min)
Will Graham achieve his unholy fantasy and can it live up to his expectations?
Maybe*: Sam Chou (2 min)
Questions of human nature.
The Ugly Turkey: David Essman (5 min)
An ugly turkey who doesn't fit in struggles to become beautiful.
My Little Angel: Flurry (3:15 min)
A young boy is thrust into a surreal event by a lapse in judgement.
Tale: Tzanko (2:22 min)
A young girl's quest for tail and the mayhem that follows.
FOT — Champion of the World: Alex Dron (2 min)
An ambitious scamp is out to show his talents in a game of classroom soccer.
The World Is A Steam Engine: Koichi Nakai (1 min)
A steam locomotive passes through a steam filled landscape.
Mr. Lux: Michael Jantze (4 min)
Mr. Lux is only happy when he delivers five-star service to his hotel guests.
Orderly Confusion, a documentary: Robert Bohn (4:18 min)
A hybrid of style, this bewildering short is about nothing and everything.
Fresh Fruit: Ed Kelley and Brenden Cicoria (3 min)
A pear and apple whimsically musing about life in their home-style refrigerator.
Mr. D: Tony Dusko (1:15 min)
This is the true story of how Mr. D started making animated films.
Turducken: Steve Stark (3 min)
3 Birds, 1 Cop.... Turducken.
Whoopi's Eyebrows: Mike Hollingsworth (3 min)
The Low Tide Gang try to track down Whoopi Goldberg's errant eyebrows.
Just In Case: Joshua Frankel (1 min)
A short animated film about the dangers of laziness.