Animation Block Party 2015 Summerfest
The twelfth annual Animation Block Party is July 30-August 2, 2015 at Rooftop Films and BAMcinématek. Animation Block Party is the premier animation festival of the East Coast is dedicated to exhibiting all genres of the world's best independent, professional and student animation.
Tickets will be on sale at the doors to each event, but you can also buy in advance at links below to ensure a seat.
To vote for the ABP Audience Award, please tweet your favorite to @animationblock or email the film title to [email protected]
ABP Weekend Passes are available via Flavorus.
*Weekend Passes can be picked up at the ABP Merchandise Table at all screening venues.
ABP THURSDAY JULY 30, 2015
Animation Block Party Opening Night at Rooftop Films is Presented by Arts Brookfield. The ABP 2015 festival begins on Thursday, July 30th at Brookfield Place (formerly the World Financial Center) ground level, along the water between West Street and the Hudson River - 220 Vesey Street, NY, NY, 10281.
Doors at 6:30pm. Live Music at 7:45 pm. Films begin at 8:45pm. Screening is free and open to the public. In the event of rain, show will be indoors at same location.
Animation Block Party presents a diverse compilation of extraordinary animated shorts, including exclusive content from DreamWorks TV and Nickelodeon.
ABP 2015 Bumper (Brent Sievers / 1 min / Los Angeles)
Aubade (Mauro Carraro / Italy / 5:26 min)
Little Doorman (Matt Marblo / Burbank, CA / 2:25 min)
Positronic (Ryan Mauskopf / NYC / 4:10 min)
Beach Flags (Sarah Saidan / France / 13:39 min)
Stella Nova (Ted Wiggin / Brooklyn / 4:10 min)
Almost There (Julia Glassman / Mass Art / 5:41 min)
Bendito Machine 5 (Jossie Malis/ Spain / 11:45 min)
Itch (Su-An Ng / 1:30 min / NFB Animation Studio)
Meanwhile (Stephen McNally / 5 min / Royal College of Art)
Harvey Beaks – Princess is Better Than You (C.H. Greenblatt / 11 min / Nickelodeon)
**DreamWorks TV title coming soon**
Animation Block Party continues on Friday, July 31st at BAMcinématek located at the Peter Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn, NY 11217. ABP Friday at BAMcinématek features four different animation programs. The 2pm slot offers a screening of Narrative Works, Studio Shorts and Local Films. At 4pm, there will be a screening of Student Films and Independent Animators. The 7pm show features the Best of Eyeworks Animation. At 9:30pm, there will be a 20th Anniversary screening of Ghost in the Shell.
2pm - Narrative Works, Studio Shorts and Local Films
An eclectic program of narrative, studio, and local animated shorts.
Adventures of Wally Fresh - Trailer (Turner Lange / Los Angeles / 1:30 min)
Triolet For Laika (Emory Allen / Minneapolis, MN / 2:03 min)
Gorillaville _ Travelling Salesmen (Ron Yavnieli / Los Angeles / 3:30 min)
Bear and Bird (Dan & Jason / NYC / 4:31 min)
Cold Feet (Jacob Kafka / NYC / 7:09 min)
Detective Trousers – The Beat Goes On (Zachary Scheer / Brooklyn / 5:33 min)
My Beefs with Taco Bell (Connor Kerrigan / USC / 3:28 min)
Wackatdooo (Benjamin Arcand / Montreal / 5:33 min)
Eggplant (Yangzi She / UCLA / 7:39 min)
Birth of Venus (Jake Nelson / Brooklyn / 38 seconds)
Palm Rot (Ryan Gillis / Los Angeles / 7:30 min)
All Your Favorite Shows (Danny Madden / 5:02 min / Mill Valley, CA)
Teigan Wolf (Annette DeLorean / Honolulu, HI / 2:53 min)
John Adams (Tim Gideon / Brooklyn / 4:17 min)
Quiet (Kyle Samuels / NYC / 3:47 min)
Eliot Trix (Anna Outridge / Brooklyn / 2:14 min)
Save Our Bees (David Donar / 1 min / Canada)
Currency Affairs (Zehao Xue / UCLA / 3:52 min)
4pm - Student Films and Independent Animators
Animation Block Party presents a collection of exceptional films by students and independent animators.
Fox Tale (Doosun Shin / Ringling / 2:18 min)
Larry Johnson (Leah Shore / Brooklyn / 1:04 min)
I Was a Teenage Girl, Apparently (Lyn Elliot and Nina Frenkel / Brooklyn + Kansas City. / 5:54 min)
Heart-Ache (Sam Grinberg / UCLA / 4:50 min)
Feelings (Nate Milton / Brooklyn / 1:30 min)
That Summer Day (Angela Chang / MICA / 3:45 min)
Brewed Awakening (Brendan Kirschbaum / RIT / 4:00 min)
The Astonishing Effects of Zebulon's Machine (Andrew Malek / Los Angeles / 7:37 min)
Highway of Hell (Andy London / NYC / 6:52 min)
Pivot (Louis Morton / Los Angeles / 2:40 min)
NIHIL (Khoebe Magsaysay /Sheridan / 3:25 min)
Sehnsucht (Nicole Amidon / Mass Art / 5:17 min)
Late (Christi Bertelsen / Brooklyn / 1:31 min)
Saturday (Joanne Lin / 3:53 min / RISD)
Fishing Trip (Beth Wollman / CCAD / 4:14 min)
Emile (Tiffanie Mang / USC / 4:39 min)
Unfriended (Josh Weisbrod / USC / 10:14 min)
7pm - Best of Eyeworks Animation
Eyeworks is an invitational festival focusing on abstract animation and unconventional character animation. Founded in 2010, Eyeworks is held annually in Chicago, with additional curated programs presented in Chicago and other cities throughout the year. For this Animation Block Party program, festival directors Lilli Carré and Alexander Stewart have selected works from the past five years of screenings: http://eyeworksfestival.com
930pm – Ghost in the Shell 20th year anniversary
20th anniversary screening of the hit anime science fiction film based on manga of the same title by Masamune Shirow. The film was written by Kazunori Itō and directed by Mamoru Oshii. A female cyborg cop and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master.
Friday Night After Party * open to public
Die StammKneipe (DSK) located at 710 Fulton Street, Brooklyn NY 11217.
9:30pm-11pm - Animation Block Party Presents Picture This!
Doors at 9pm, Show at 9:30pm
FREE SHOW!! ($5 suggested donation)
http://picturethisshow.com
*11pm-1am - ABP party and drink specials*
ABP SATURDAY AUGUST 1, 2015
Animation Block Party continues on Saturday, August 1st at BAMcinématek located at the Peter Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn, NY 11217. ABP Saturday at BAMcinématek features four animation programs. The 2pm slot is a special Animation for Kids screening. At 430pm, there will be a screening of Pre Code Hollywood cartoons. The 7pm show features International Shorts. At 9pm, there will be a JibJab Showcase.
A fresh collection of the year's best family-friendly animated shorts gathered from festivals and the major studios.
Aloha Hohe (Kevin Temmer / Ringling / 2:22 min)
Skateboard Cool Guy (Evan Borja / Los Angeles / 1 min)
Cookie-Tin Banjo (Peter Baynton / UK / 2:33 min)
The Walker (Heather Collins / UCLA / 4:21 min)
L'Americano Returns (Ricky Renna / SVA / 3:10 min)
Can I Stay? (Onyee Lo, Paige Carter and Katie Kundson / Ringling / 3:48 min)
Toot the Tiny Tugboat (Matthew Hood / London / 11:01 min)
Monster of Lake Quannapowitt (Sarah Lynne Reul / Academy of Art University / 3:28 min)
Doctor Puppet: Planet That Came for Christmas (Alisa Stern / Brooklyn / 5:26 min)
Good Thinking – Science of Teaching Science (FableVision Studios and Smithsonian Science Education Center / Boston / 16:09 min)
On The Same Page (Carla Lutz and Allison Norman / Ringling / 3:49 min)
The Boy and the Fish (Sarah Schwab / Flinders University, Australia / 3:50 min)
430pm - Tom Stathes Cartoons on Film - Pre Code Hollywood
Animation curator and collector Tom Stathes presents this special screening of ultra rare Pre-Code Hollywood cartoons.
7pm - International Shorts - Program One
Animation Block Party presents the finest animation from around the world.
Black Tape (Uri and Michelle Kranot / Denmark / 3:08 min)
Haircut (Virginia Mori / Italy / 8:09 min)
Between Times (Ru Kuwahata and Max Porter / 14:22 min / Netherlands)
Mirror in Mind (SeungHee Kim / South Korea / 2:04 min)
Daewit (David Jansen/ Germany / 14:50 min)
UTO (David Buob / Denmark / 7:38 min)
Moana (Yolanda Llácer / Spain / 3:25 min)
Light River (Sha Liu / China / 5:40 min)
this skin we're in (Martha Orbach / London / 4:10 min)
Heila Ormur (Rose Stark / Iceland / 3:45 min)
Dji. Death Sails (Dmitri Voloshin / Moldova / 5:18 min)
9pm - JibJab Anniversary Showcase
Evan and Gregg Spiridellis founded JibJab in a Brooklyn garage nearly sixteen years ago. This summer, Animation Block Party will be presenting an exclusive JibJab Anniversary show at BAMcinématek, featuring everything from Presidential rap battles to "year in review" YouTube hits.
ABP Saturday Night Party at BAM Fisher - 930pm-2am
*participating filmmakers and weekend pass holders only
BAM Fisher located at 321 Ashland Pl, Brooklyn NY 11217.
Carnival and arcade style games, streaming videos, ping-pong, Brooklyn Brewery beer, Deep River Snacks chips and much more…
ABP SUNDAY AUGUST 2, 2015
Animation Block Party concludes on Sunday, August 2nd BAMcinématek located at the Peter Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn, NY 11217. The 2pm show is a 35mm screening of the Care Bears Movie. At 430pm, there will be a Sesame Street Retrospective. The 7pm show is a second original program of International Shorts. At 9pm, there will be a screening of Experimental Films, Graphic Design and Music Videos.
1980’s classic in 35mm. Directed by Arna Selznick. The Care Bears live in a cloud-filled land called Care-a-Lot. Travelling across Earth, the Bears help two lonely children named Kim and Jason find new parents, and also save a young magician's apprentice named Nicholas from an evil spirit's influence. Deep within a place called the Forest of Feelings, Kim, Jason, and their friends soon meet another group of creatures, the Care Bear Cousins.
430pm - Sesame Street Retrospective
A look back at Sesame classics paired with modern cartoons from the iconic educational program.
7pm - International Shorts - Program Two
Animation Block Party presents a second collection of stellar international animation shorts.
The Vistors (Philip Watts / Australia / 1 min)
Half Wet (Sophie Gate / Royal College of Art / 7:15 min)
Edmond (Nina Gantz / National Film and Television School / 10:08 min)
Migration (Fluorescent Hill / Montreal / 6:11 min)
Golden Shot (Gökalp Gönen / Turkey / 8:40 min)
Spamorama (Mondo Ghulam / UK / 2:07 min)
Paper Bag (Roxana Bentu / Romania / 11:32 min)
Tupilaq (Jakob Maqe / Denmark / 5:44 min)
Ernie Biscuit (Adam Elliot / Australia / 20 min)
Eloise, Little Dreamer (Myriam L. Obin / 3:57 min / Concordia University)
9pm - Experimental Films, Graphic Design and Music Videos
The year’s most outstanding experimental and design centric animated shorts and music videos.
Tomato (Caitlin Craggs / CalArts / 2:42 min)
Clayhead (Isak Akerlund / Sweden / 44 seconds)
All Over (Chris Carboni / Brooklyn / 3:02 min)
Upon The Rock (James Bascara / Brooklyn / 9:19 min)
beat and afterbeat (Greg Condon / Brooklyn / 1:41 min)
Xiao Tao (Manning Liu / Mass Art / 2:48 min)
teeth (Holbrooks Films / 5:55 min / UK and Hungary)
Hem – The Jack Pine (Stephanie Swart / Brooklyn / 3:12 min)
flats and wagons (Jacob Rivkin / Philadelphia, PA / 1:54 min)
Greyhound Blues (Dave Merson Hess / Houston, Texas / 4:04 min)
GIF JAM 2014 (Kevin Lee / 5:21 min / Burbank, CA)
Ball of Life (Dana Sink / Harrisburg, PA / 4:10 min)
Head Games (Anne Beal / Chicago / 3:53 min)
Isola DelGiglio (Tom Schroeder / MCAD / 10:25 min)
Infinite Water (Sunny Liang / CalArts / 3:33 min)
Saw vs Saw (Jonathan Hance / Brooklyn / 40 seconds)
Loss (Marian Obando / Brooklyn / 3 min)
A Portrait (Aristotelis Maragkos / Greece / 2:13 min)
NU-LIFE (Lynn Kim / Queens, NY / 4:30 min)
The Animation Block Party 2015 Prize Jury is Anneli Strassler – Digital Animation Cleanup Supervisor, Titmouse Cartoons. Daniel Wineman - Director, International Original Series and Co-Productions, Disney Television Animation. Megan Nairn - Animation Talent Development Manager at Cartoon Network + Director of Operations at LoopDeLoop.
ABP 2015 award categories are Best in Show, Original Design, Computer Animation, Experimental Film, Music Video, Narrative Short, Student Film, Minute Movie, Animation For Kids and the Audience Award.
