The nineteenth annual Animation Block Party festival took place on August 12-13, 2022 and featured three prizes categories for participating filmmakers.
This year’s official Animation Block festival winners are:
Audience Award: click! (Alistair Inkwell / Rochester Institute of Technology / 2:45 min)
Best In Show: Menagerie (Jack Gray / Philadelphia / 4:25 min)
Original Design: Recurring Dreams (Hyung Jin Lee / Brown University / 2:21 min)
Animation Block Party presents Cartoons On Film “Rubber Hose Retrospective.”
Since its inception as an entertainment medium in the early 20th century, the animated film has undergone various evolutions and vast changes in artistic stylings.
One of the major breakthroughs in the late 1920s, which ushered in an unforgettable aesthetic trend, was the idea of approaching character limbs as though they were flexible, stretchable tubes.
And thus, 'rubber hose' animation was born, and the world of animated cartoons was forever transformed!
Early animation historian Tommy José Stathes of Cartoons On Film joins Animation Block Party to host a Saturday evening screening of rubber hose cartoons at DSK Brooklyn.
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.
The Animation Block Party Festival closes on Saturday, August 13th with a FREE 16mm animation party at DSK Brooklyn, located at 710 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY 11217.
Doors at 730pm // Screening at 8pm.
Seating is on a first come, first served basis*
Friday, August 12, 2022 - ANIMATION BLOCK OPENING NIGHT!
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*
Poster illustration by Robert Bohn.
2pm: Animation Block Summer Mix – Volume One (2022):
Animation Block Truck Drop (Adam Ansorge / Jersey City / 15 sec)
Roadwork word play in this year’s festival introduction.
Power Records (Emily Zullo / SVA Animation / 3 min)
It’s closing time at Power Records.
Vegeversary (Sarah Schmidt / Columbus, OH / 4 min)
Bunny's friends take her on a night-on-the-town to celebrate her Vegan-Anniversary.
Boys Clap, Girls Dance (Dena Springer / Chicago / 9:25 min)
A pre-teen who exists in an artificially constructed world is aware that something is changing.
Poppy “Her” (Chris Ullens / London / 3:44 min)
Somewhere in an enigmatic dystopian future, a queen is entertained by her brutal talent show.
Menagerie (Jack Gray / Philadelphia / 4:25 min)
Day after day, inhabitants of the Menagerie play out their daily lives like clockwork.
Choker (Chia-Hsuan Ho / National University Tainan / 5:39 min)
The big elf and the small elf live in a little cabin in the woods.
Manchmal weiss ich nicht wo die Sonne (Samantha Aquilino / Lucerne / 4 min)
A lobster, a cat and a deer. Dangerous rebels. A human, sometimes here and sometimes there.
Nature Calls (Nikolas Protopapas / Pratt / 42 seconds)
Chill bathroom break in the forest.
click! (Alistair Inkwell / Rochester Institute of Technology / 2:45 min)
Rotoscope style music video mimics the energy of the creative process where the idea “clicks.”
Level One (Christopher Bennett / Syracuse / 3:53 min)
Three friends play a video game, each player chooses a character representing their inner self.
Housecat (Katelyn Costello / Brooklyn / 4:51 min)
Cat by circumstance, house cat by choice.
Buzzkill (Peter Ahern / Brooklyn / 5:21 min)
The blind date woes of Rick and Becky (who has something in her eye and her closet).
The Heist (Maya Moes / State University of New York at Fredonia / 1:27 min)
A spunky thief sneaks into a jewelry museum to steal a huge diamond.
Achroma (Sarah Steidle / Pratt / 3:48 min)
Amidst a colorful world, a young woman in shades of gray fears of spreading it to others.
The Forbidden Zone (Zach Tolchinsky / Cal Arts / 11:21 min)
A botanist quarantined in an abandoned train station spends his days fighting to survive.
Can You See Me? (Anthony Senatore / SVA Animation / 3:40 min)
An invisible man wants to become famous so he can finally be seen.
L’abattu des vents (Félix-Antoine Garneau-Chouinard / Université Laval / 5 min)
The foghorn blows. A lighthouse keeper is alone on the quay.
4pm: Malt Adult Presents Barber Westchester (2022):
Barber Westchester by Jonni Phillips 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.
6pm: Animation Block Summer Mix – Volume Two (2002):
Out of Pasture (Jared D. Weiss / Los Angeles, CA / 1 min)
A beast at sea yearns for more.
This Is My Suitcase – Memories (Robert Bohn / Jersey City / 2:35 min)
An exploration of one mans life through distant memories of his cat.
Angelo Saves The Cinema (Thomas Gambardella / SVA Computer Art 4:34 min)
A boy needs to save his local movie theatre from going out of business.
Vegan On The Weekends (Faith ShaKira Chamblee / MICA / 4:36 min)
A self proclaimed vegan gets put to work as a butcher on her first day of work at a local store.
A Priceless Proposal (Mars Marshall / SCAD / 4:05 min)
A rookie jewelry thief tries to steal a ring to propose to her girlfriend but a rival has other plans.
Sitaara Sisters (Nikki Sharma / Pratt / 4:46 min)
In a mystical palace, two sisters create stars in the form of magical orbs.
Olive and Otis (James Holston / Cal Arts Experimental / 5:20 min)
A horror movie about dysphoria, gender transition, and the self.
OrHoDa (tigris alt sakda / Université Laval / 11:26 min)
Along the Amur River, mountains abound with mysterious lively treasures.
Recurring Dreams (Hyung Jin Lee / Brown University / 2:21 min)
A series of nightmares that have returned again and again over the years, haunting…
Swan Lake (Daeyoung Kim / NYU / 2:18 min)
A determined hunter chases after a swan through a snowy vista where the supernatural is afoot.
The Surface Bell (Daniel Chase and Joseph Nunnink / Queens, NY / 8:40 min)
Sequestered in a smoky wood, an aging man attempts to escape a supernatural force.
Restless Is the Night (Xiaoxue Meng and Yuehan Tan / USC / 4:18 min)
Exploring the unwanted situations women find themselves navigating everyday urban life.
The Waltz (Yulia Ruditskaya / Brooklyn / 5 min)
Shadows from an interwar Yiddish poem by A. Lutzky waltz at the edge of a modern world.
Running Late (Kamila Tlemissova / FIT / 3:44 min)
A student is late for an important exam, soon they start seeing strange things happening.
Chamoe (Coleen Baik / NYC / 2:34 min)
An old woman on a mysterious journey to fulfill the cravings of her pregnant granddaughter.
Jingo Ball (Dana Sink / Harrisburg, Pennsylvania / 3:40 min)
An analogy on the evils that we try to protect our children from, only to become part of them.
The Journal (Gemma Hill / SVA Animation / 2:49 min)
A young writer gets discouraged by her parents.
abuelito (Vivian Vazquez / Pratt / 2:29 min)
Stories about Gonzalo Neri Vazquez as told through his wife, daughter, and granddaughter.
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.
Submit your animated short film, GIF or loop to ABP 2022
Top Three Student Films win $500 cash prizes!
Audience Award and Best Student Film winner receive Dragonframe software!
Animation Block Party is open for entries from June 1st through June 30th.
2022 film lineup to be announced on July 8th!
The Animation Block Party festival returns August 12-13, 2022 in Brooklyn!
Summer program highlights at BAM Film include Malt Adult Presents Barber Westchester and the fifteenth anniversary of the animated documentary Chicago 10.
Opening night party drops on the evening of Friday, August 12th, featuring live animated comedy from Picture This at Union Hall, located at 702 Union St, Brooklyn, NY 11215.
Festival screenings will take place all day on Saturday, August 13th at the prestigious Brooklyn Academy of Music, located at 30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217.
The nineteenth annual Animation Block Party festival opens for festival submissions on June 1, 2022 at the animationblock.com website with a special focus on student films.
The Animation Block Halloween Special featured four exclusive prize categories…
And here are the official festival winners!
Student Film: Devil's in the Details / Anna Owenson / Chapman University
Animated Loop: Dice / Spencer Sherk / Brooklyn
Minute Movie: Home Sweet Home / Elliot Lobell / Jersey City
Audience Award: Posted No Hunting / Alisa Stern / Brooklyn
ALL award winners will receive a license of DigiCel FlipBook and a special $420 cash prize for extra animated Halloween excellence!
The Audience Award and Student Film winners will also receive Dragonframe software.
A very special Halloween nighttime edition of spooky comedy drawn live via Picture This!
Comedy: Ian Fidance, Jamie Loftus, Nick Naney, Clare O'Kane, Shalewa Sharpe & Jes Tom.
Animation: Jason Chatfield, Mike Hollingsworth, Jenny Fine, Christina Ogbotiti, Jamie Loftus & Bryan Brinkman.
Union Hall is located at 702 Union St, Brooklyn, NY 11215.
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