2024 Eyeworks Experimental Animation Series - Program 1

This year’s iteration of Eyeworks presents two programs of short films on Saturday, November 16 at 12:00 and 2:45 PM. Programs are open to all, on a first-come first-served basis. RSVPs not required but appreciated.

The Eyeworks Experimental Animation Screening Series is an annual event focusing on experimental animation, with screening events in Chicago, LA, and NY each fall. Eyeworks spotlights works made by individual artists, drawing on the tradition of classic cartoon animation and the lineages of avant-garde and underground cinema. The aim of Eyeworks, founded in 2010, is to present works that engage the enormous potential inherent in the artform of animation, and to show pieces that use animation as part of distinctly personal, conceptual, exploratory, and critical practices. Past festival guests with retrospective screenings have included David OReilly, Lori Damiano, Nancy Andrews, Caleb Wood, Takeshi Murata, Martin Arnold, Jacolby Satterwhite, Naoyuki Tsuji, Janie Geiser, Laura Harrison, Barry Doupé, and Al Jarnow. The 2024 Eyeworks guest is Yoriko Mizushiri, with a retrospective screening at 2220 Arts + Archives in Los Angeles. Eyeworks is curated by Alexander Stewart and Lilli Carré, and is presented by Pioneer Works.

Festival curators Alexander Stewart and Lilli Carré in person!

Looping before programs:

Animated loops by Yoriko Mizushiri

Messages, Yellow Ball Workshop

Duration: 6’ / Year: 1972 / Format: Video

The Falling Sky, Peggy Ahwesh

Duration: 9’20” / Year: 2017 / Format: Video

Mirror Products Catalog, Annapurna Kumar

Duration: 5’00” / Year: 2024 / Format: Video

Pteryphlegia, Louis Smits

Duration: 6’43” / Year: 1986 / Format: Video

Inukshuk, Timmun Alariaq

Duration: 3’00” / Year: 1973 / Format: Video

Rat City, Wendell McShine

Duration: 10’36” / Year: 2024 / Format: Video

ABC in Sound, László Moholy-Nagy

Duration: 2’00” / Year: 1933 / Format: Video

Apotheosis, Lillian Schwartz

Duration: 4’ / Year: 1973 / Format: Video

Body Sketches, Ruth Hayes

Duration: 5’52” / Year: 1978 / Format: Video

Magic Man, Salomonie Pootoogook

Duration: 1’30” / Year: 1973 / Format: Video

In Dreams, Josh Shaffner

Duration: 17’16” / Year: 2023 / Format: Video

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2024 Eyeworks artwork by Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva

Please note: Programs are open to all and will be seated on a first-come first-served basis. RSVPs do not guarantee a seat; early arrival is recommended. Museum doors open at 11:30 AM, and seating will begin shortly after for the first program. The second program will begin seating around 2:15 PM. Be aware, Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation is recommended for mature viewers.

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