Program duration: ~53 minutes. Descriptions courtesy of the filmmakers and distributors.

Tony Nash, Where Was I?
1:37 minutes, open captions, 2024
This work was inspired by friendship and nostalgia.

Delia Hess, On Hold
7:11 minutes, 2024
A young woman is stuck in the hold queue of a telephone hotline. A surreal episodic short film about the absurdities of urban life and the frustration of a paralysing standstill.

Miranda Javid, What Humans Do
6:40 minutes, open captions, 2023
A macro view of human-actions, as told from within a singular body. Animated frame by frame with biodegradable ink + paper.

Marina Santana De la Torre, La Estación de las Rosas (The Season of the Roses)
2:45 minutes, Spanish with English subtitles, 2024
Chronicle about freedom and sexual diversity. The film centres on the gay relationship between two university students who discover what life is like when they graduate.

J. Ramos, Eldritch Kiss
2:53 minutes, open captions, digital video, 2024
A workplace romance sparks up at a small convenience store. Claire is a shy, awkward girl with a secret. Addie is a nice girl who is unaware of Claire’s truth. Will their newfound love survive Claire’s reveal?

Calvin Hardick, Silo
1:17 minutes, 2024
A very personal and specific representation of universal creative energy manifested as a character. Inside of an impossible structure somewhere in the cosmos, seen through the impenetrable safety of a viewing portal, we get to witness the moment of ascension into the material plane. We, the viewers, our hoppy two dimensional friend, and the being born in the silo are all segments of an infinite accordion, seeing, feeling, sharing, and expressing.

S4RA, bot3quim
4:45 minutes, Spanish with English subtitles, 2023
stage for intellectuals, artists & freethinkers 2 meet, a cultural institution that has become the sanctuary for creative expression & a symbol of resistance during the portugese dictatorship

Alisi Telengut, Baigal Nuur (Lake Baikal)
8:56 min, Buryat-Mongolian with English subtitles, 2023
The formation and history of Lake Baikal in Siberia are re-imagined with hand-made animation, featuring the voice of a Buryat woman who can still recall some words in her endangered Buryat-Mongolian language.

Eva Davidova, Vinson And Flying Dancers Over A Lush Garden With Animals
2:46 minutes, 2024
Vinson and Flying Dancers Over a Lush Garden with Animals is an experimental animation investigating through hundreds of prompts the biases in the dataset of Runway’s LLM about dancers of color, and the frustrating attempts at feeding concepts like Flying (we ended up writing Falling to achieve Flying), Bare Feet, or Dancing with Animals. The sound is a mix by Eva Davidova, based on Matthew D. Gantt experiments with Artificial Intelligence in sound.

Kolya Kishinsky and Geneva Huffman, Red Thumb
5:52 min, 2024
A stop motion short about a gardener who tries to control his environment as he discovers a pulsing red plant. As it physically grows so does their connection, becoming his prized blooming obsession.

Suncana Brkulj, Butterfly
8:07 minutes, 2024
A community of garden creatures all contribute to the flow of life, using water from a fountain. When a butterfly gets stuck in the fountain, they’re faced with an unfamiliar situation.

Alisi Telengut is a Canadian artist of Mongolian origin, living between Berlin and Tiohti:áke/Montréal. Her work received multiple awards and nominations and has been screened and exhibited internationally, including at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Sundance Film Festival, TIFF, Videonale, among others.

Calvin Hardick is a multi-disciplinary illustrator and animator from Buffalo, NY.

Delia Hess studied animation at the Lucerne School of Art and Design in Switzerland. Since her graduation in 2012 she has been working independently on her own short film projects as well as on commissioned films and illustrations. She lives and works in Lucerne.
Filmography: On Hold (2024), Emmen by the Lake (2021), Circuit (2018), Around the Stairway (2018), Morning Train (2012, student film), Partition (2011, student film), In the City (2011, student film)

Eva Davidova explores behavior, ecological disaster, and the social implications of technology through performative works rooted in the absurd. Challenging a singular narrative, she combines ancient mythology with current technologies to address the impending ecological catastrophe. Her practice involves research, performance, 360 video and 3D animation, game engines, participatory Virtual Reality, and interactive, site-specific immersive installations. Davidova has exhibited at the Bronx Museum, the UVP at Everson Museum, Buffalo AKG Museum, MACBA, CAAC Sevilla, La Regenta, ISSUE Project Room, Harvestworks, Instituto Cervantes, and the Museum of Moving Image (MoMI) in New York.

J. Ramos is someone inspired by their own experiences with sexuality and mental health. They’re pursuing a BFA in Animation at Villa Maria College, going into their senior year in 2024. They love animation and working on new projects as they come.

Kolya Kishinsky is a recent RISD graduate and Bay Area born animator where in the foggy hills one’s hand disappears if it’s too far from the body. As in the fog, his work focuses on searching, autonomy and creating personal identity. He works in both stop motion and 2D animated mediums as well as holding a printmaking and illustration practice focused on telling surreal yet personal stories.
Geneva Huffman is a recent graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design, working in both 2D and 3D aspects of illustration. She particularly enjoys fabrication in the world of stop motion and is constantly tinkering. Geneva is probably making something creepy and macabre this very moment. Be afraid, be very afraid.

Marina Santana is a Mexican Director, cinematographer, animator and sound designer. Her work explores dreams and eerie circumstances as well as fear of the unknown. She has screened at Ann Arbor, Shorts México, Festival Internacional de Cine de Hidalgo, Austin Arthouse, ICDOCS, Pantalla de Cristal, New York City International Film Festival and Trinidad y Tobago Film Festival. She holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and is an alumni of the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar.

Miranda Javid (she/her) is an animator, curator, and art-educator. Her animations describe cognitive experience, human bias, and the relationship between individuals and their communities.

S4RA is an < non-binary && genderqueer > interdisciplinary artist that feeds on con*sensual power dynamics & gender role play through a /non/ linear looping hybrid process between digital animation & ( immersive : ) environments. also spends endless hours strolling through post-capitalism mazes & it’s influence on libidinal pleasure.

Suncana Brkulj (1997) earned her MA in animation from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. Her student films have been selected for screenings at prestigious festivals in Annecy, Ottawa, Zagreb, Stuttgart, and elsewhere, winning several awards. After graduating, Suncana undertook a residency at Open Workshop in Viborg, where she made her first professional film, Butterfly.

Tony Nash: I began painting about 50 years ago and now also enjoy making video artwork.