Animation Block Party begins at 7pm on Saturday, June 3rd at BAM Film with an anniversary screening of fest classics and faves.
The 20th Animation Block Party festival will take place on August 18-20, 2023 and is open for animated short film entries through June 16th.
This year’s Brooklyn skyline poster was illustrated by Xiongliang (Ben) Li and colored by Janet Lin to commemorate twenty years of Animation Block.
“Love” themed micro-shorts, GIFs & loops February 11th at Permanent Records!
Sublo and Tangy Mustard on Love and Hate / Aaron Long / Canada
Owl Hearts Bumper / Jared D. Weiss / Los Angeles
God of Grease meets the Fish-Oil Goddess / CIANG / Italy
Kissing in NYC Library / Violet Cheverez / Brooklyn
Loop / Maeve Terranova / Chicago
Heart of the Cabbage / Dane Cree / Minneapolis
Double Birds / Juan R Lage / Argentina
Kiss Cam / Devon Manney / NYC
Our Little Valentine / Anna Firth / California
TXT / Sari Applefeld / Los Angeles
Desperate / Jessika Raisor / Cleveland
The Gravity of a Red Rose Emoji / Nico - Kelmu Studio / London
One-Dimensional / Kristen Cignavitch / NY
Hey Babe / Yerg / Canada
No Mate / Rusty Eveland / Philadelphia
Happy Ghoulentines Day / April Merl / NYC
Be My Valentine / Migo Sea / Chicago
You Look Like an Angel / Andy Kay / Los Angeles
Two Years of Love / Wendy Medrano / Athens, GA
Infatuation / Jon Kruzic / Pennslyvania
Unnelolve / Parker Davis / Chicago
Loving Eyes / Robby Cimino - Kindclutter / NY
Something Sweet / Jerry Scott Lopez / San Diego
Vday / Arlon Tanzer / Los Angeles
Loveloop / Zachary Lindemann / Chicago
Untitled / Elijah Harris / Chicago
Love Cycle / Nonisha Negi / India
Eclair the Cat / Erika Babinska / Chicago
Mirror Touch / Kaitlin Gu / NYC
Crushed / Zach Lydon / NYC
Over the Moon Swoon / Michael Lawrence Bates / Canada
Scrimps Need Love Too / Leilanni Todd / NYC *winner of Best “Love” Clip
Awoo / BBraio / Italy
Big Stretch / Amanda Torres & Janet Alicia Bertilacchi / Calgary, Canada
A Tall Tattoo Tale As Told in Thirty Theconds or Thess / Wacko Cozy + Julian Bata / Brooklyn
Fragoleo (Lionberry) / Francesca Colombara / Italy
Trisha Valentine / Sam Gurry / Los Angeles
Films curated by Malt Adult.
Permanent Records is located at 1906 Cypress Ave, LA, CA 90065.
Doors at 6:30 / Show 7pm PST*
Animation screening opens show!
Picture This comedy follows screening.
Animation Block Party returns to Los Angeles on Saturday, February 11th at Permanent Records with a Valentines special headlined by Picture This Show live animated comedy.
Permanent Records is located at 1906 Cypress Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90065.
Doors 6:30 / Show 7pm PST
Proof of vaccination required for entry to the live show
Street Parking available, ride share encouraged
21+ ID required for entry
RSVP required for zoom link to the event
Comedy by:
Animation by:
Hosted by Brandie Posey!
Animated shorts open show / Picture This directly follows screening.
Animation Block Valentines returns to LA on February 11, 2023 at Permanent Records!
Animation Block Valentines is seeking “love” themed micro-shorts & GIFs!
Micro-short and animated GIF entries must be under thirty seconds and submitted in H.264 or Apple ProRes 1920 x 1080 format.
Entries are free and will be open from December 16, 2022 through January 18, 2023.
The best “love” clip will receive a $500 prize as well as ABP festival merchandise and art supplies!
Micro-short and GIF submissions should be emailed via downloadable links to maltadult@gmail.com
Do not send the only copy of your animation. Any materials you send us will not be returned.
Please label your QuickTime file with the name of your entry and include your preferred contact email in cover letter with submission.
Suggested file transfer sites include www.wetransfer.com, www.hightail.com, www.sendspace.com, www.dropbox.com or Google Drive.
Accepted works will be transferred to a digital stream for the festival.
Please check ABP Valentines on February 3rd for selections as space is limited.
Submit video by The Sunshine Mall.
Valentine shorts will be curated by Malt Adult, via Sarah Schmidt and Ian Ballantyne.
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.
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