FRIDAY night program

August 12, 2022.

ABP 2022 - Opening Night Celebration!

Animation Block Party Presents Picture This!

10pm - Friday, August 12 at Union Hall, located at 702 Union St, Brooklyn, NY, 11215.

Comedy hosted by Samantha Ruddy, with Clare O'Kane, DeAnne Smith, Courtney Maginnis & Mara Wiles.

Animation by Jason Chatfield, Bryan Brinkman, Chrissy Fellmeth, Christina Ogbotiti & Dan Pinto. 

This is a FREE event with RSVP*

SATURDAY at bam film

august 13, 2022.

Animation Block Party 2022 broadcasts from BAM Film all day on Saturday, August 13th with four incredible programs. Saturday matinee is a 2pm Animation Block Summer Mix, Volume One. At 4pm is Malt Adult Presents Barber Westchester. The 6pm program highlights Animation Block Summer Mix, Volume Two. Closing the night at 8pm is Chicago 10.

BAM Film is located at 30 Lafayette Ave Brooklyn, NY 11217.

Saturday Night Party will feature animated classics from Cartoons On Film at DSK Brooklyn at 710 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY 11217.

 Program 1  -  2:00pm

animation block summer mix, volume one (2022)

Volume One of this summer’s eclectic Animation Block Party mix of the world’s best animated shorts.

• Animation Block Truck Drop (Adam Ansorge / Jersey City / 15 sec)

• Power Records (Emily Zullo / SVA Animation / 3 min)

• Vegeversary (Sarah Schmidt / Columbus, OH / 4 min)

• Boys Clap, Girls Dance (Dena Springer / Chicago / 9:25 min)

• Poppy “Her” (Chris Ullens / London / 3:44 min)

• Menagerie (Jack Gray / Philadelphia / 4:25 min)

• Choker (Chia-Hsuan Ho / National University Tainan / 5:39 min)

• Manchmal weiss ich nicht wo die Sonne (Samantha Aquilino / Lucerne / 4 min)

• Nature Calls (Nikolas Protopapas / Pratt / 42 seconds)

• click! (Alistair Inkwell / Rochester Institute of Technology / 2:45 min)

• Level One (Christopher Bennett / Syracuse / 3:53 min)

• Housecat (Katelyn Costello / Brooklyn / 4:51 min)

• Buzzkill (Peter Ahern / Brooklyn / 5:21 min)

• The Heist (Maya Moes / State University of New York at Fredonia / 1:27 min)

• Achroma (Sarah Steidle / Pratt / 3:48 min)

• The Forbidden Zone (Zach Tolchinsky / Cal Arts / 11:21 min)

• Can You See Me? (Anthony Senatore / SVA Animation / 3:40 min)

• L’abattu des vents (Félix-Antoine Garneau-Chouinard / Université Laval / 5 min)

*filmmakers in attendance

Program 2  -  4:00pm

malt adult presents barber westchester (2022)

Barber Westchester is a stunning independent feature by the prolific animator Jonni Phillips, making its New York theatrical debut at BAM. The film centers on Barber navigating family life, a cult preacher dad, and complicated friendships while getting an internship at NASA only to find out that space is fake.

Phillips will be appearing at the screening in conversation with Malt Adult founder, Sarah Schmidt.

Animation Block 2022 tri-fold zines from Malt Adult will be available at the screening*

 Program 3  -  6:00pm

animation block summer mix, volume two (2022)

Volume Two of an exceptional animated summer mixtape from the Animation Block Party festival.

• Out of Pasture (Jared D. Weiss / Los Angeles, CA / 1 min)

• This Is My Suitcase – Memories (Robert Bohn / Jersey City / 2:35 min)

• Angelo Saves The Cinema (Thomas Gambardella / SVA Computer Art 4:34 min)

• Vegan On The Weekends (Faith ShaKira Chamblee / MICA / 4:36 min)

• A Priceless Proposal (Mars Marshall / SCAD / 4:05 min)

• Sitaara Sisters (Nikki Sharma / Pratt / 4:46 min)

• Olive and Otis (James Holston / Cal Arts Experimental / 5:20 min)

• OrHoDa (tigris alt sakda / Université Laval / 11:26 min)

• Recurring Dreams (Hyung Jin Lee / Brown University / 2:21 min)

• Swan Lake (Daeyoung Kim / NYU / 2:18 min)

• The Surface Bell (Daniel Chase and Joseph Nunnink / Queens, NY / 8:40 min)

• Restless Is the Night (Xiaoxue Meng and Yuehan Tan / USC / 4:18 min)

• The Waltz (Yulia Ruditskaya / Brooklyn / 5 min)

• Running Late (Kamila Tlemissova / FIT / 3:44 min)

• Chamoe (Coleen Baik / NYC / 2:34 min)

• Jingo Ball (Dana Sink / Harrisburg, Pennsylvania / 3:40 min)

• The Journal (Gemma Hill / SVA Animation / 2:49 min)

• abuelito (Vivian Vazquez / Pratt / 2:29 min)

*filmmakers in attendance

Program 4  -  8:00 pm

chicago 10 (2007)

Chicago 10 is an animated documentary about the Chicago Eight, who were charged by the federal government with various charges related to anti-war and countercultural protests during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

The film was directed by Brett Morgan, and the crew is a who’s who of animation legends, from Dan Haskett to Doug Crane to Tissa David.

SATURDAY NIGHT AT DSK BROOKLYN!

Animation Block presents Cartoons On Film Rubber Hose Retrospective

At DSK Brooklyn, located at 710 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY 11217.

Animation historian Tommy José Stathes of Cartoons On Film joins Animation Block Party to host a Saturday evening screening of early rubber hose cartoons. 

FREE event features genuine 16mm projection, using rare archival prints from Stathes' personal archive. 

Some of the shorts to be screened will include:

• Alice the Whaler (Ub Iwerks, 1927)

• The Mechanical Cow (Ub Iwerks, 1927)

• Felix Woos Whoopee (Otto Messmer, 1930)

• Minnie's Yoo Hoo (Ub Iwerks, 1930)

• Toby the Milkman (Dick Huemer, 1931)

...among others.

“Rubber Hose” was a curving motion style that became an aesthetic industry standard in early 20th century animation.

The 2022 award categories are Audience Award, Best in Show and Original Design.