Redelude A handmade film which explores the sensation of becoming immersed in imaginary spaces. Journey through stars, circuits, and neurons to look at plants, rocks, and fossils.
Runtime: 12:26
Directed by: Julien Miller
Julien Miller is a painter/animator from Fly Creek, NY. In 2017, they received their BFA in Painting and Drawing from SUNY Purchase. They currently maintain a studio practice in Queens making experimental handmade animations in which they explore things that frighten and intrigue them. Including social collapse in the wake of global warming, advanced technology morphing into immersive digital environments, first person memories translated into paint, and alien botanists experimenting on unheard of plants. After creating storyboards by mixing elements from dreams, real life, and science fiction, Julien meticulously illustrates backgrounds and cells cut from paper for their films. Shooting frame-by-frame, combining replacement, stop motion, layering, and digital illustration processes, they assemble universes to explore storytelling through animation.
DYNAMICS (Frozen Movements) is an experimental, dreamy and surreal stop-motion film, created using everyday materials. The film offers a visual reflection on transformations that emerge through the intuitive blending of dissimilar elements. The result is a non-narrative art film where fantasy, form and texture merge into a sensory experience.
This short animation invites viewers to surrender to a world where logic gives way to atmosphere and intuition. The hypnotic soundscape enhances the avant-garde character of the film and leaves plenty of room for personal interpretation.
Runtime: 14:00
Directed by: Teo Baehler
I am a multidisciplinary artist (Art Academy CSIA, Lugano, CH) who positions myself autonomously and vulnerably in relation to the established art world. This mindset grants me the freedom to approach reality from a different perspective and to explore boundaries in search of new narratives and stagings.
By experimenting with the most everyday materials, intuitive processes emerge in which the unknown is embraced and mistakes are seen as sources of inspiration. I favor a hands-on, craft-based approach that allows me to fully express my personality and imagination.
Nostril is a stop-motion animated short film about Lala, a sleep-deprived woman kept awake by her husband’s obnoxious snoring. When the sound becomes so powerful that it quite literally sucks her into his nose, Lala finds herself in a terrifying battle against the boogery germ creatures that dwell within. Blending comedy and horror, Nostril looks at the things we put up with for love, highlighting relationship struggles with a light-hearted tone.
Runtime: 4:30
Directed By: Michael Dondero and Shengnan Dong
Michael Dondero: An Emmy-award winning film-maker, animator, and writer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and based in Brooklyn, NY. Learn more about Michael on his website , IMDB and on instagram.
Shengnan Dong: A 3D Character designer/3D generalist who specializes in game design, fine art, animation, and toy production. To learn more, visit her website and follow her instagram.
Lonely Island is a mixed-media short film about a starving man washed ashore on a mysterious island where he befriends a crab who helps him survive. A nightmarish fever–dream narrative taking place within a collage jungle and painted sea, Lonely Island is a tale that reflects humanity and its relationship to the non-human world.
Runtime: 4:22
Directed by: Kristie Kish
Kristie Kish is an Emmy-nominated multimedia artist born and raised in New York.
Her creative practice explores the intersection of technology and the natural world, using footage, printed matter, natural objects, and data as tools to uncover new perspectives on the environment and our relationship with it. Although her work fuses together a variety of materials and techniques into an unusual or nonsensical clusterfuck hybrid thing, it somehow feels familiar and enchanting.
Before working digitally, she spent her time in the printmaking studio where she developed her love for multilayered visual language. Her work was shown in group exhibitions and published in literary arts journals. She received a BA in Studio Art with a focus on printmaking from CUNY Hunter College in 2016 and an MFA in Computer Arts specializing in motion graphics and experimental art from School of Visual Arts (SVA) in 2023.
As a freelance motion designer, she creates and animates work that ranges from corporate commercials to quirky and bizarre cartoons. She prefers the latter. Her work was broadcast on Nat Geo Wild, SYFY, and Nickelodeon while her personal work was shown in film festivals around the world, group exhibitions, and published literary arts journals. Kristie is also the Co-Founder of Mothers Milk, a canned coconut water cocktail brand that's as fun and refreshing as it sounds. In her free time, Kristie is hangin' with her giant bunny rabbit and plants.
Lorraine and the Ladybugs Lorraine is a neat girl who suddenly, inexplicably, has ladybugs fly out of her mouth each time she opens it. How will she adjust to her new life?
Runtime: 2:24
Directed by: Muriel Smith
Muriel Smith is a Montreal animator and illustrator who loves playing on the computer. Her animations celebrate the traditions of the medium (drawing funny faces) and the charm of digital textures. She received her BFA in Film Animation in 2025 from Concordia University, and continues to develop her practice.
Clown Boy A bullied high school student orders a mysterious package that fills his world with awe and possibility.
Runtime: 2:22
Directed by: Jake Elijah
Jake Elijah is a 26-year-old musician, animator, and video editor based in Ridgewood, New York.
Heaven’s Escape is a short film about a girl who dies in a mosh pit during the opening band's set and wakes up in Heaven. She escapes Heaven in time to see her favorite band, Piss Cups, perform.
Runtime: 4:00
Directed by: Mira Seeba
Mira Seeba is an animator and illustrator based in Brooklyn, New York.
She specializes in 2D animation. Her distinctive style, developed during her time at Pratt Institute, is marked by varied line widths and flattened perspectives.
Her capstone film, Heaven's Escape, was screened at the Best of Animation Showcase at Alamo Drafthouse in Brooklyn and won Best Visual Design.
Her short film, 300%, was shown at the Grotesque Film Festival at the Bryant Lake Bowl Theater in Minneapolis. Additionally, she interned at Feral Cat Den, a Brooklyn-based game design studio where she developed concept art and animations for the team.
Was Time Laughing
re-edit of the music video for Big Zippers “Time Was Laughing” with sound effects instead of music. I hope you have a great time watching this video. Please let me know if it was any good by texting me at +1 514-777-7062
Runtime: 2:58
Directed by: Jordan Minkoff
Jordan Minkoff is a Montreal-based 2D animator, filmmaker, and music video director. His work possesses humorous and surreal attributes informed by his experience in painting and music. By combining traditional and modern techniques, his work yields nostalgic and distinct results. Under the moniker of Dr. Cool, Jordan has directed work for artists on labels such as Warner Brothers, Sub Pop, JYP Entertainment, Arbutus Records. His work has been featured in film festivals internationally, and he has received two Vimeo Staff Picks which maybe means he’s okay at what he does!
Howl if You Love Me Boy has girl. Boy loses girl. Boy wins girl back, but girl is a werewolf.
Runtime: 7:47
Directed by: John R. Dilworth
Academy Award nominated director John R. Dilworth is a New York-based
animation director and designer whose work has appeared on Netflix, Showtime, HBO, FOX, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, MTV, Canal +, and Arte. His films have screened in museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Guggenheim Museum in
New York City. He is the founder of Stretch Films, Inc., an independent animation design and production studio in New York
City.
His 1994 breakthrough film, THE DIRDY BIRDY was selected in over 100
international festivals and has won many prizes including a Mikeldo do Plata de Animacion in Spain. THE DIRDY BIRDY was featured on MTV’s debut of “Cartoon Sushi,” a series to highlight the best in independent animation. The Venice Film Festival and the Zagreb Festival of World Animation has placed a print of THE DIRDY BIRDY in their permanent archive. The popularity of the film continued as a broadband series on Comedy Central’s website, Motherload
in 2000.
THE CHICKEN FROM OUTER SPACE, Dilworth’s 1995 animated short film,
sponsored by Hanna-Barbera and Cartoon Network, was nominated for an Academy Award, and Annie Award. In 1998, Dilworth turned THE CHICKEN FROM OUTER SPACE into a series for Cartoon Network entitled COURAGE THE COWARDLY DOG. He served as executive producer, director, and co-writer of all 104 shorts, as well as voicing numerous characters. COURAGE THE COWARDLY DOG is one of Cartoon Network’s top-rated shows and has been broadcast continuously since 1999 on both Cartoon Network and Boomerang.
Dilworth's 2005 independent film, LIFE IN TRANSITION, has received
international recognition, being awarded Best of Show at the ASIFA-East Animation Festival, Maverick Award for Best Animation at Woodstock Film Festival, and Nominated for an Annie Award for Best Animated Short.
The film was selected for the 2005 tour “Animation Show of Shows,” the best of contemporary international animation.
Dilworth produced two new films in 2017, GOOSE IN HIGH HEELS and MOM GOT EATEN BY A SPIDER DEMON.
HOWL IF YOU LOVE ME is Dilworth’s latest film.
The website for many of John R. Dilworth's animation is www.stretchfilms.com.
Zoonomia proceeds from the notion that if the rules that govern our universe and determine how it develops were altered, what we see around us would be profoundly different. It represents an imaginative investigation into how things might have evolved if events had followed a slightly different trajectory, allowing for hybrids of existing organisms, the return of extinct species and unpredictable motivations, interactions and outcomes. All the inhabitants are monsters in a sense. None of them belongs comfortably in their environment or with each other. Interactions are charged, outcomes unpredictable. Meaning is elusive or non-existent.
Runtime: 7:10
Directed By: Yeon Jin Kim
Yeon Jin Kim is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker, born in South Korea and based in New York City. She makes narrative videos by making scroll drawings and miniature models and characters out of cardboard, paper, and other materials. This deliberately low-tech process is often combined with various animation techniques.
Monday is a stop-motion short film about a grumpy business-cat dreading work. While waiting for the bus, a mysterious ball of wool appears out of nowhere. What will the cat do?
Runtime: 0:58
Directed by: Linh Phung
Linh Phung is a stop-motion animator and director based in New Jersey, where she brings tiny puppets and personal stories to life one frame at a time. After years of teaching art in NYC public schools, she made the leap into stop-motion animation to combine her love of using physical materials and digital software to tell stories. Linh enjoys the meditative process of making small things move and making puppets by hand.
Ministry of Good News The main character accidentally floods his apartment while filling the bathtub. The situation looks disastrous until the Ministry of Good News intervenes and turns it in a positive direction!
Runtime: 1:20
Directed by: Jonáš Urbánek
Jonáš Urbánek got into animation in high school at SPŠST Panská, where he studied Film and Television Production. After graduating, he spent a year studying Motion Design at VOŠ Scholastika, and then continued his studies at UMPRUM in the Animation studio. In 2023, he completed a semester-long internship in the Illustration and Animation studio at Kingston University in London. He is currently working on his bachelor’s film.
it all sounds like the beatles You’re overwhelmed, you’re overloaded, you’re overstimulated and it’s all accompanied by The Beatles.
Runtime: 2:33
Directed by: Maisie Sherriff
Maisie is an animation student from London studying at Kingston School of Art and UMPRUM. They make experimental animations by hand with an emphasis on materiality and playfulness as a way to convey more abstract emotions.
Y2 Chaos a digital journey of the Y2K era.
Runtime: 1:17
Directed by: Cheryl Okonkwo and Lydia Tiruneh
How To Say What You Really Mean Sweepy Bear struggles to find the right words to express his inner world, and turns to a popular book for help.
Runtime: 0:55
Directed by: Wyatt Bertz
Combining a dual passion for music and visual art, Wyatt Bertz’s original compositions, productions, and animated visualizers have been distributed by labels such as Transgressive, Thirty Tigers, The Orchard, City Slang, and Far Cry Records. Audio-visual commissions, always masking subversive messaging with commercial polish, have ranged from community non-profits, like Newtown Creek Alliance, to digital-native companies like GIPHY, to megalithic brands like Hasbro. His first solo gallery installation in New York, “The Last Time I’ll Use Plastic,” premiered in May 2025 at Stephen Street Gallery with a mixture of sculpture, design and video elements, and featured ongoing performances from a multidisciplinary peer group. Other work has been exhibited at The Emily Harvey Foundation, Coaxial Arts, CLEA RSKY, the Bombay Beach Biennale, Ridgewood Off-Kilter Film Festival, Faurschou Foundation, and the Living Gallery. Keep an eye out for his upcoming art toy, boxcar, a consumer product that’s designed to fall to pieces when it works.
Four Days of Exams A boy in Junior High is in the midst of his midterm week. Stress is mounting. Will he persevere or will he sleep in the rain?
Runtime: 7:05
Directed by: Alexander Greenblatt
Alex Greenblatt was raised by two artists in New York City. Ever since he was young, Alex has been surrounded by pretentious people talking about how Rauschenberg’s later work was derivative. He decided to rebel against his family by selling out and moving to Hollywood to sell screenplays and edit films. He has a BFA in Screenwriting from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He has contributed his writing, editing, and ideas to various creative projects, including podcasts, documentaries, and animated shorts. A semifinalist in the WeScreenplay Television Pilot Lab, Alex has never won an award but would really like one.
Slip 2
Runtime: 1:11
Directed by: Hank
Chicken Morphers Dipshit Chicken goes to store to get SodaPopFace with rolling eyes.
Runtime: 0:45
Directed by: Harrison Wyrick
Harrison is an experimental animator earning a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, IL.