Tootle the Turtle (Xiongliang (Ben) Li / Los Angeles, CA / 15 seconds)
Time for Tootle and his penguin pals to grab some popcorn and soda!
Surfer Puppers (Adam Ansorge / Jersey City / 30 seconds)
Puppers returns to Animation Block Party in a silly surfing cartoon.
Between Beginnings (Zora (Xiangzi) Xu / UCLA / 3 min)
Quiet moment of reflection, and reminder that beginnings are rarely clear.
The Woodland Book Nook (Amy Ninh / Loyola Marymount University / 2:48 min)
A bookstore run by rabbits is a literary haven for the small woodland creatures.
I dream about Colorful Earth (Will Kim / Los Angeles / 1:37 min)
Watercolor animation technique brings to life the director’s dreams of Earth.
Playground (Jojo Chongjaroenjai / Ventura, CA / 1:23 min)
In a hidden micro-world, a playful folivore family turns greenery into toys.
Join (Brennan Bova / Ottawa, Canada / 1:03 min)
A film about community and the joy of finding it.
Hunky Dory (Steven Vander Meer / Manila, California / 6 min)
Moving and morphing to the banjo music of Béla Fleck and his bandmates.
Brazey & D'Bruppy (Jared D. Weiss / Los Angeles / 4:50 min)
Brazey and D'Bruppy reconvene in a park after a period of time apart.
Whereabouts (Suejee Lee / Brooklyn, NY / 2 min)
A riso-printed short following a woman’s journey through NYC.
Animation Intermission: Jeff Jam Live Performance***
Kid President (Yadid Licht / Brooklyn, NY / 5:20 min)
No more lettuce, no more artichokes… no more broccoli!
Soup! (Ava Azarmi / CalArts / 1:21 min)
God makes soup. The soup is (somewhat) intelligent life.
Magical Doomsday Horsegirls of the Apocalypse (Andrea Schmitz / Raleigh, NC / 1:10 min)
These magical girls decide to take things into their own hands.
Pac-Man Pursuit (Tristan Scolnick / Los Angeles / 1:01 min)
Pac-Man runs from three Ghosts looking to take him out.
Little Body Big Heart (Teo Nalani and Eli Huang / SVA / 4:25 min)
A fish outgrows his pool, follows his heart, swimming through bigger “seas.”
Homecoming (Yuxin (Cindy) Cheng / UCLA / 1:52 min)
A joyful childhood memory inspires a woman to reconnect with her loved ones.
***Featuring aquatic loops from Mike Hollingsworth
