CURATED SCREENING
Eyeworks
Experimental Animation Screening Series
Program 2
This special program of the Eyeworks Experimental Animation Screening Series is co-curated by Lilli CARRÉ, a member of the international jury for the Short Film Competition, and Alexander STEWART, a selected filmmaker in the Music Animation Competition. The two programs present works ranging from classics to contemporary films.
What is the Eyeworks Experimental Animation Screening Series?
The Eyeworks Experimental Animation Screening Series is an annual festival focusing on experimental animation, with screening events in Chicago, LA, and NYC 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, now in its 15th year, is to present works that celebrate animation as an experimental art form. Eyeworks is curated by Alexander Stewart and Lilli Carré, and is presented by Pioneer Works.
Eyeworks is curated by Lilli Carré and Alexander Stewart
Eyeworks 2026 is presented by Pioneer Works
Eyeworks 2026 artwork by Michael Jensen
www.eyeworksfestival.com
Thank you: Gabriel Florenz, Daniel Kent, Vivian Chui, Yume Murphy, Magdalena Ramos Mullane, Ben Creech, Michael Metzger, Malia Haines-Stewart, Andrew Maxwell, John Dawson, Mark Toscano, Andrew Dorsett, Jed Rapfogel
Farewell, Little Island
Sandor REISENBUCHLER
A short animation depicting the drowning of a village by modern technology.
Tako Tsubo
Fanny SORGO, Eva PEDROZA
Mr. Ham decides to have his heart removed in order to be relieved of his complicated feelings. The doctor assures him that this is no longer a problem at all in this day and age. However, Ham keeps his heart for a while after the removal in order to perhaps understand it better after all. Tako Tsubo is an animated, surrealistic reflection on dealing with feelings in a meritocracy.
Rapid Eye Movements
Jeff CARPENTER, Mary LAMBERT
An obscured world of night lives, eavesdropped phone calls, and philosophical romantic musings.
XYZ
Alexandre ALAGÔA
An obsessive exploration of the three geometric dimensions in hopes of reaching a fourth. Created by shooting with a camera on a tripod throughout the halls of a building where the filmmaker used to work.
Altair
Lewis KLAHR
Altair offers a cutout animation version of color film noir. The images were culled from six, late forties issues of Cosmopolitan magazine and set to an almost 4 minute segment of Stravinsky’s “Firebird” to create a sinister, perfumed world. The viewer is encouraged to speculate on the nature and details of the woman’s battle with large, malevolent societal forces and her descent into an alcoholic swoon.
Sliver Cave
Caibei CAI
Stepping into a cave, the sight fluctuates by the firelight. Left to right, top to bottom. The same goes for the screen in front of you. It is a borderless tunnel, presenting domestication and desire.
Molly Dane
Ida LASIC
Experience the ritz and glamour of a death at the Dane's fundraiser.
River Lethe
Amy KRAVITZ
A non-narrative and abstract visual poem in five parts. Its title refers to the underworld river of forgetfulness. The drawings are created from non-traditional animation media including rubbed and erased graphite, pigment, and aluminum powders to make an animate surface of unusual richness.
CURATOR PROFILE
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Lilli CARRÉ
Lilli Carré is an interdisciplinary artist from Los Angeles, working in experimental animation, print, and ceramic sculpture. She is particularly interested in the open-ended possibilities and histories of the animated body – simultaneously physical and virtual, free of expectations or fixed form. Her animated films have shown in festivals including the Sundance Film Festival, Annecy, International Film Festival Rotterdam, New Chitose Airport Intl. Animation Festival, Ottawa Animation Festival, Guanajuato Film Festival, 25FPS, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival.
She is a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow in Film-Video. She co-curates the annual Eyeworks Experimental Animation Screening Series founded in 2010, and currently teaches in the Experimental Animation program at CalArts.
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Alexander STEWART
Alexander Stewart is a filmmaker and artist living in Los Angeles. He teaches in the Experimental Animation program at CalArts and co-curates the annual Eyeworks experimental animation series.
CURATED SCREENING
Eyeworks
Experimental Animation Screening Series
Program 2
SCHEDULE
- 2026.11.23 14:40
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NEW CHITOSE AIRPORT THEATER
Theater 2
