EYEWORKS SHORT FILM PGM 1
Winston Hacking ACTION BOG (Canada, 2025, 2 min, digital) "Time stretches like soft polymer; metamorphoses creep forward frame by frame, suspiciously slow, as if the film were watching me back." –Winston Hacking Emma Calder SPRINGFIELD (UK, 1986, 7 min, 16mm-to-digital) "Part woman, part vacuum cleaner, what do these effeminate cyborgs have to say about alienation and the gendered hierarchies we inhabit? A witty and offbeat probing of loss, obsession, desperation, and fear." –Emma Calder Adebukola Bodunrin LEAKS IN THE LINES (France/U.S., 2026, 4 min, digital) "LEAKS IN THE LINES is a hybrid film combining laser etching, phytograms, and 8mm footage of gardens to explore the tension between organic growth and imposed order." –Adebukola Bodunrin Chihiro Yamanaka VEILS OF LANDSCAPE / / 霞始めてたなびく (Japan, 2025, 5 min, digital) "The east wind begins to blow, carrying warmth into the water. Landscapes merge without boundaries, and in time, the mountains drift into slumber." –Chihiro Yamanaka JoAnn Gillerman ORCHID (U.S., 1985, 3 min, digital) "Technology meets sensuality as associations of gender are transposed into a yin/yang of unexpected androgyny. Computer graphics, live video and fluid hand drawn frame-by-frame fracturing animations create unique abstracted forms with unlikely pairings of living orchids, human form, nature and technology." –JoAnn Gillerman Shana Moulton THE UNDISCOVERED DRAWER (U.S., 2013, 9 min, digital) A series of nested drawers opens for Cynthia, leading her on another journey of self-realization. Sara Petty PRELUDES IN MAGICAL TIME (U.S., 1987, 4 min, 16mm-to-digital) "The [film's] imagery alludes to a window and curtains dancing in a breeze, which creates a structural element throughout the animation, as it drifts and unfolds into completely non-objective forms." –VCU SCHOLARS COMPASS Emile Cohl ART'S INFANCY / L'ENFANCE DE L'ART (France, 1910, 4 min, 35mm-to-digital. Piano score by Andrew Dorsett.) "Created before cels were used in animation, this film blended techniques of hand-drawn linework, paper cut-outs, trick photography, human pixilation, and mixed-media live-action into a single experimental short film which explores imagined origins of creativity." –EYEWORKS Çağıl Harmandar VISION (Japan/Turkey, 2023, 7 min, digital) "Eyes are magical spheres that make up dreams and retain memories. In our eyes, the visions of the within and of the beyond overlap. New worlds come to be when our gazes meet." –Çağıl Harmandar Julian Antonisz WHAT DO WE SEE AFTER CLOSING OUR EYES AND COVERING OUR EARS (Poland, 1978, 5 min, 35mm-to-digital) One of a series of films Antonisz made using his "pantograf-animograf," an ingenious mechanical device that scales drawings down to the size of a film frame and mechanically animates transformations between drawings. Ruth Peyser GO TO HELL (U.S., 1994, 8 min, 16mm) "After a fight with her boyfriend, a woman falls through a hole in the stairs into a hellish fantasy world where she is confronted by a series of terrifying situations. When she emerges, her fear turns to anger, giving her the courage to fight back. Along the way, she discovers the power and exhilaration of finding her voice." –Ruth Peyser Kevin Eskew ENSMOOTHENING (U.S., 2026, 12 min, digital) "Visualize an Earth of such tranquility and peace in nature that it must be the true marvel of all the ages. A land for forever, smoothened and sterilized. That's the Dream! Yes! A smooth plastic-coated marble world!" –Kevin Eskew