Animation

In life there are times we need to "let go" with love in order to "hold on" to life. Jodee's poem and drawing were inspired at the Arts & Healing Resiliency Center's January 7, 2024 workshop, "Letting Go & Holding On for Hope, Healing, & Resilience in the New Year." This workshop is part of the Hold On Campaign for Suicide Prevention's expressive arts outreach to connect, express, and heal. The animation "Let Go" is by the very talented and compassionate media designer Lucia Martinez Rojas. For more information on the Hold On Campaign's services including presentations, workshops, mentoring, and internationally award winning songs and short films, please see www.holdoncampaign.org.

In a black-and-white world, lonely lumberjack Bill chases a stealing crow to a giant tree. When he strikes the tree, color fills the landscape. Bill, overcome by euphoria, hallucinates. When he wakes up, the raven flies away, leaving Bill behind to face his creation.

Life is like a blackboard you write on with chalk. Everything is written, everything is erased. Especially our first love in elementary school. Especially our first teacher in that school.

Beaupré the Giant marked his era with his 8’3” height. Gone too young and far from home in 1904, his journey as a phenomenon was only just beginning. In a stunning series of twists and turns, his mummified body will take more than 80 years to find its way home.

Come spend a day with the birds of New Zealand! See their daily mischief and hear their wonderful song.

After an unproductive appointment, the Subject returns home as their bottled up emotions reach a boiling point.

Drawn to unorthodox materials and themes, Mochi Lin works with diaphanous stockings and acetate to depict courtship in the insect world. Her musical composition provides the soundtrack for a startling pas de deux. Stop-motion haiku on the themes of coupledom, confinement and decapitation!

Cameron Kletke depicts an in utero skirmish between twins with spacious hand-drawn animation, employing watercolours and pastel to plunge us into an intimate watery universe where the umbilical cord becomes a prop in a comic battle of wills. Those little elbows can be sharp.

With dynamic energy captured using India ink on paper, a liberating tango with a stranger enables a woman to reconnect with herself.

Emmet Zabor's senior film at CCS and most noteworthy animation thus far. "I want to make an animated series one day, and this is a taste of what I want it to be."

Girl logs on, web adventure!!

CalArts 2024 short film by Clover Melluzzo.

For people living with structural dissociation, falling asleep can be a challenge—a time when multiple contradictory thoughts conspire to keep you awake. Drawing on her experience with somatic healing, Michelle Ku puts these thoughts to rest in a few vivid minutes of hand-painted animation.

A choir of tropical frogs performs infectious pop in delightfully unsettling animation from Costa Rican-Canadian artist Bianca Shonee Arroyo-Kreimes. Riffing on karaoke companion videos and the swipe-n-scroll conventions of handheld media, she infuses candy-coloured digital animation with the spectre of ecological collapse.