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FREE OUTDOOR SCREENING

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 exclusives 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, NY / 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)
• Swamp Talk with Shrek and Donkey – Donkey’s Gone Hollywood (David Skelly / 1:09 min / DreamWorks TV)
• Fishstick & Honeybear – The Most Awkward Phone Call Ever (Dennis Messner / 2:11 min / DreamWorks TV)
• Extreme Craft Stick Mayhem – Graves Situation (David Trexler / 2:54 min / DreamWorks TV)

FRIDAY full program

JULY 31, 2015

Animation Block Party continues on Friday, July 31th at BAMcinématek located at the Peter Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn, NY 11217.

ABP Friday at BAMcinématek features four 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. 7pm show features Eyeworks Animation favorites. At 9:30pm, there will be a 20th Anniversary screening of Ghost in the Shell.

Program 1  -  2:00pm

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)

Program 2  -  4:00 pm

Student Films & Independent Animators

Animation Block Party presents a collection of imaginative 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)

Program 3  -  7:00pm

Favorite Shorts from the Eyeworks Festival

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:

• Pixiliation (Lillian Schwartz / 1970 / USA / 4 min)
• bbrraattss (Ian Cheng / 2013 / USA / 3:15 min)
• Light Weight (Stefan Gruber / 1999 / USA / 3 min)
• Two Space (Larry Cuba / 1979 / USA / 8 min)
• Hammam (Florence Miailhe / 1992 / France / 9 min)
• Futon (Yoriko Mizushiri / 2012 / Japan / 6 min)
• Make Me Psychic (Sally Cruikshank / 1978 / USA / 8 min)
• The Presentation Theme (Jim Trainor / 2008 / USA / 14 min)
• aaa[A]aaa (Brandon Blommaert / 2012 / Canada / 2:30 min)
• Tanka (David Lebrun / 1976 / USA / 10 min)

*post-screening Q&A with festival co-founder, Alexander Stewart.

Program 4  -  9:45pm

Ghost in the Shell

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of this dazzling science-fiction mind-bender, a landmark of Japanese animation (and a major influence on The Matrix). Set in the digital dystopia of 2029, it follows a female cyborg cop on a mission to track down a rogue hacker known as the Puppet Master, raising provocative philosophical questions about what it means to be human and offering an optic-overload of retro-futuristic visual poetry.

Friday Night After Party

Die StammKneipe(DSK) located at 710 Fulton Street, Brooklyn NY 11217.
http://dsk-brooklyn.com/

9:30pm-11pm - Animation Block Party Presents Picture This! * free event
http://picturethisshow.com

11pm-1am - ABP party and drinks specials…

SATURDAY full program

August 1, 2015

Animation Block Party continues on Saturday, August 1st at BAMcinématek located at the Peter Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11217. ABP Saturday at BAMcinématek four animation programs. The 2pm slot is a special Animation for Kids screening. At 4:30pm, there will be a screening of Pre Code Hollywood cartoons. The 7pm show features International Shorts. At 9pm, there will be a JibJab Showcase.

Program 5  -  2:00pm

Animation for Kids

A fresh collection of the year's best family-friendly animated shorts gathered from festivals and the major studios.

• King Julien Stand Up (Drew Massey / 1:01 min / DreamWorks TV)
• 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)
• Fifi: Cat Therapist - Achy Armadillo (Mike Blum / 2:41 min / DreamWorks TV)

Program 6  -  4:30pm

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.

• Feline Follies (Otto Messmer / 1919 / 5 min)
• Bobby Bumps' Last Smoke (Earl Hurd / 1919 / 5 min)
• A Fitting Gift (Bray Studios / 1920 / 7 min)
• Hot-toe Mollie (Romer Grey / 1930 / 7 min)
• In My Merry Oldsmobile (Fleischer Studios / 1931 / 7 min)
• Is My Palm Red? (Fleischer Studios / 1933 / 7:00 min)
• The Magic Mummy (Van Beuren Productions / 1933 / 7 min)
• Croon Crazy (Van Beuren Productions / 1933 / 6 min)
• Sultan Pepper (Van Beuren Productions / 1934 / 8 min)
• Buried Treasure (Misc / 1928 / 7 min)

*post-screening Q&A with Tommy Stathes and J.J. Sedelmaier.

Program 7  -  7:00pm 

International Shorts
Program One

Animation Block Party presents a blend of the best animated shorts from around the world. The first of two entirely unique programs of acclaimed international animated films.

• 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)

Program 8  -  9:00pm

JibJab 15th 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.

• Capital Ill (2000)
• Founding Fathers Rap (2000)
• Ahnuld for Governor (2003)
• Twelve Days of Christmas (2003)
• Good to be in DC (2004)
• This Land (2004)
• Big Box Mart (2005)
• Matzah (2005)
• Second Term (2005)
• Do I Creep You Out – Weird Al (2005)
• What We Call News (2006)
• Time For Campaigning (2008)
• He is Barack Obama (2009)
• Charles Nelson Reilly – Weird Al (2009)

*screening to be followed by a Q&A with JibJab co-founder Evan Spiridellis and showcase will also include assorted JibJab E-Cards.

Saturday Night afterParty

*participating filmmakers and weekend pass holders only

BAM Fisher located at 321 Ashland Pl, Brooklyn NY 11217.

Arcade games, air hockey, foosball, pop-shot basketball, ping pong, streaming cartoons, music, Sakura Art Drawing Wall, Brooklyn Brewery Beer, Deep River Snacks chips, and much more!

sunday full program

August 2, 2015

Animation Block Party concludes on Sunday, July 27th at BAMcinématek, 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11217. At 2pm, there will be a Sesame Street Retrospective. The 4:30pm show is a 35mm screening of the Care Bears Movie. 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.

Program 9  -  2:00pm

Sesame Slam: A Retrospective on Sesame Street Animations

A look back at Sesame classics paired with modern cartoons from the iconic educational program. Highlights include:

• Bumble Ardy # 9 (Jim Henson and Maurice Sendak / 1970s)
• Ladybug Picnic Song (Imagination, Inc / 1970s)
• Sneezing Song (Paul Fierlinger / 1980s)
• Cat’s Can (Daniel Haskett / 1980)
• Beginning, Middle and End Song w/Books (Sally Cruikshank / 1980s)
• Luxo Jr. Light and Heavy (John Lasseter & Andrew Stanton / 1990s)
• Tall Short Texan Song (Joey Ahlbum / 1990s)
• Big/Small Octopus on your Head (Mo Willems / 1990s)
• Noodles & Nedd (John R. Dilworth / 1990s)
• 12 Little Chicks Song (Mari Jaye Blanchard / 2010s)
• Ukelele (Jeremy Galante & David Cowles / 2010s)

*Screening features a Q&A with Sesame Producer Kim Wright and animators Joey Ahlbum, Jeremy Galante, David Cowles and Mari Jaye Blanchard.

Program 10  -  4:30pm

The Care Bears Movie

Directed by Arna Selznick | 1985

With Georgia Engel, Mickey Rooney, Jackie Burroughs

The cuddly, rainbow-colored plush creatures journey from their cloud kingdom of Care-a-Lot to Earth to the Forest of Feelings on a quest to help a pair of orphans and save the world from an evil spirit. A surprise box office smash, this sunshiny adventure features voice work by Mickey Rooney and Harry Dean Stanton and songs by Carole King, Tower of Power, and John Sebastian (The Lovin’ Spoonful).

Program 11  -  7:00pm

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)

Program 12  -  9:00pm

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)