Animation Block Party’s 19th annual festival has launched with two original summer shorts lineups.
The Opening Night Celebration drops at Union Hall (702 Union Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215) at 10 p.m. on Friday, August 12 with live animated comedy from Picture This!
Saturday, August 13 is stacked with a full day of animation programming at BAM Film (30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11217). The afternoon begins with a 2 p.m. short films matinee of Animation Block Summer Mix, Volume One followed by a 4 p.m. feature film screening of Malt Adult Presents Barber Westchester.
The 6 p.m. show is another original block of festival shorts in Animation Block Summer Mix, Volume Two. BAM Film screenings will close with the 15 year anniversary of the animated documentary, Chicago 10.
Barber Westchester, by Jonni Phillips, follows along with 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.
Animation Block Party 2022 is exhibiting some of the best young talent in the world, with over a dozen different colleges and universities being represented by student animators at this year’s festival.
Animation Block Summer Mix, Volume One
- Animation Block Truck Drop – Adam Ansorge
- Power Records – Emily Zullo (SVA Animation)
- Vegeversary – Sarah Schmidt
- Boys Clap, Girls Dance – Dena Springer
- Poppy “Her” – Chris Ullens
- Menagerie – Jack Gray
- Choker – Chia-Hsuan Ho (National University Tainan)
- Manchmal weiss ich nicht wo die Sonne(Sometimes I Don’t Know Where the Sun) – Samantha Aquilino
- Nature Calls – Nikolas Protopapas (Pratt)
- click! – Alistair Inkwell (Rochester Institute of Technology)
- Level One – Christopher Bennett
- Housecat – Katelyn Costello
- Buzzkill – Peter Ahern
- The Heist – Maya Moes (State University of New York at Fredonia)
- Achroma – Sarah Steidle (Pratt)
- The Forbidden Zone – Zach Tolchinsky (CalArts)
- Can You See Me? – Anthony Senatore (SVA Animation)
- L’abattu des vents – Félix-Antoine Garneau-Chouinard (Université Laval)
Animation Block Summer Mix – Volume Two
- Out of Pasture – Jared D. Weiss
- This Is My Suitcase “Memories” – Robert Bohn
- Angelo Saves the Cinema – Thomas Gambardella (SVA Computer Art)
- Vegan on the Weekends – Faith ShaKira Chamblee (MICA)
- A Priceless Proposal – Mars Marshall (SCAD)
- Sitaara Sisters – Nikki Sharma (Pratt)
- Olive and Otis – James Holston (CalArts Experimental)
- OrHoDa – tigris alt sakda (Université Laval)
- Recurring Dreams – Hyung Jin Lee (Brown University)
- Swan Lake – Daeyoung Kim (NYU)
- The Surface Bell – Joseph Nunnink
- Restless Is the Night – Xiaoxue Meng (USC)
- The Waltz – Yulia Ruditskaya
- Running Late – Kamila Tlemissova (FIT)
- Chamoe – Coleen Baik
- Jingo Ball – Dana Sink
- The Journal – Gemma Hill (SVA Animation)
- abuelito – Vivian Vazquez (Pratt)
Opening Night detaila and the official ABP ’22 poster will be revealed soon. See the complete program and film synopses at animationblock.com/summerfest2022.
