Brooklyn’s coolest festival, the Animation Block Party will be celebrating its 20th anniversary edition on Saturday, June 3rd at 7 p.m. at BAM Film. The event has released a colorful Brooklyn skyline poster from longtime fest collaborator Xiongliang (Ben) Li to commemorate the big anniversary. A big congratulations to festival founder and organizer Casey Saffron for putting this great animation community event together year after year.
The BAM Film program on June 3rd includes keynote award winners, behind the scenes footage and much more, featuring the following animated shorts.
Here is the fantastic lineup for the anniversary program:
- Greg Condon’s Bodysplash (2005)
- Michael Langan’s Intelligent Life (2008)
- Ben Meinhardt’s Brain Tea Bumper (2009)
- Choom Lam’s Rethink Happiness (2009)
- Arjun Rihan’s Switch Today (2010)
- Barbara Benas’ Greetings from the Year 3000 (2011)
- Mari Jaye Blanchard’s Bullets for Breakfast (2012)
- Celia Bullwinkel’s Sidewalk (2013)
- Sarah Beeby’s Irreversible (2013)
- Taylor Armstrong’s Light Bulb Gasoline Promo (2013)
- Ben Li’s Street Justice (2014)
- Chelsea Manifold’s Bewitched Barry (2014)
- Ted Wiggin’s Stella Nova (2015)
- Turner Lange’s Adventures of Wally Fresh (2015)
- Bryan Brinkman’s The Troubadour’s Green Room (2016)
- Louis Morton’s Nose Hair (2017)
- Sean Buckelew’s Lovestreams (2017)
- Will Kim’s Glorious Victory (2017)
- Jared D. Weiss’s Frog Dog Log (2018)
- Rachel Gitlevich’s Why I Don’t Like the Way I Look (2018)
- Sarah Schmidt’s Angst Shorts (2018)
- Emily Hubley’s Faithy, hey (2019)
- Lindsey DeMars’s Welcome to Hell (2019)
- Richard O’Connor’s Ride (2019)
- Alisa Stern’s Sum of Parts (2020)
- Robert Bohn’s BAM Street Team (2020)
- Adam Ansorge’s Truck Drop (2022)
- Leilanni Todd’s Scrimps Need Love Too (2023)
- Aaron Long’s Sublo and Tangy on Love and Hate (2023)
- Mike Hollingsworth’s @stufffedanimals Interstitials (various)
BAM Film is located at 30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217. The 20th annual Animation Block Party festival will run August 18th to 20th, 2023 and is opening for animated film entries the first week of May. The Animation Block website is a destination for all festival, event broadcast and streaming updates.
For more info, visit www.animationblock.com
