Animation Block Party 2007 Summerfest

Here is all the Animation Block Party 2007 Summerfest Information and Lineups. Tickets will be on sale at the doors to each event, but you can also buy them in advance right here.

ABP July 27th:

Animation Block Party opens on Friday July 27th at Rooftop Films at Automotive High School, 50 Bedford Ave, between N. 12th and Lorimer, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. In the event of rain the show is indoors at the same location.

Buy Advance Tickets Here for July 27.

8:00 pm – Musical Performance by Demander

9:00 pm – Screening Begins

Animation Block Party Rooftop Screening Lineup…

Animation Block Intro – Scott Dodson
Sopranos Ending Revealed – Martin Abrahams
Hell’s Angels Safehouse – Ashley Holzwasser
The Powers That Be – Will White
Infinite Justice – Karl Tebbe
Symbol – Ron Crawford
The Return of Sargeant Pecker – Pierre Delarue
Brain Wash – Woodrow Martin
Crapass – Mike Chiechi
Peeper – Luis Cerritos
Little Guys – David Pagano
Barney The Terrier – Anny Slater
The Wisdom Tooth – Philippa Rice
Flowers of Evil – Adam Ansorge
Ugly – Dan Lundquist
Peanut Butter Fish Pockets – Steve Stark
The Ghost of Sam Peckinpah – Jason Brewer
Intermission
Polka - Rodolfo Collado Hernandez
Type A – R. Smith
Blunted – Lamar Sanders
Shut Eye Hotel – Bill Plympton
Flock Off – Matt Lee
Manning – Anton Bogaty
The Legend of Cranky Verne – Laika
Untitled – Anthony Mair
Stoned Wheat – Jake Friedman
Atomic Banana – Erik Kling
Ivan’s Act – Emmett Goodman
After School Midnight – Hitoshi Takekiyo
The Meatrix 2 1/2 – Sustainable Table and Free Range Studios
Animation Block Outro – Anneli Strassler

The after party will run from 11pm-1am at Matchless at 557 Manhattan Ave, on the corner of Driggs ave. and Manhattan Ave.featuring free Dewar’s Scotch Whiskey courtesy of Rooftop Films and free Martin Miller’s Gin Courtesy of New York Magazine. Please make sure to grab a wristband when leaving the screening.

ABP July 28th:

Animation Block Party's second night drops Saturday July 28th at the Pioneer Theater on East 3rd Street, between Avenues A and B (closer to A) in Manhattan, NY.

Buy Advance Tickets Here for July 28.

Pioneer evening screenings will run at 8:30, 10:15 and 12:00 midnight.

Animation Block Party Pioneer Screening Lineup…

Utopiate – Lee Noble
Prey – Tom Kyzivat
Eye Sore - Johnny Castuciano
View-O-Rama – Chelsea Manifold
Jose y Maria – Edward Juan
Snake – Becky James
Floor Kids (B-Boy Live vs B-Boy Nugs) – Jonathan NG and Kid Koala
Raccoon and Crawfish – Four Directions Productions
The Ballad of Thaddeus Lowe – Kelly Jones
Hedgehug – Dan Pinto
Cole Needs Women - David Chai
Once Upon a Putt in the West – Imran Awan
Linear Progression - Kat Kosmala
Escargo – Hubert Chan
Zoologic – Nicole Mitchell
A Faery’s Tale – Sylvia Apostol
Dragon – Troy Morgan
Worst Case Scenario # 12, Home Invasion – Katerina Dzolganovski
Ape Shit – Bob Ray

The after party will begin after the 10:15 screening ends at Julep at 9 Avenue A with Budweiser flowing courtesy of America’s Finest News Source, The Onion, Inc.

ABP July 29th:

Animation Block Party's third night is at Galapagos Art Space at 70 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn between Kent and Wythe on Sunday on July 29th.

Buy Advance Tickets Here for July 29.

8:00 pm – A special global warming presentation from the Lower East Side Ecology Center, showcasing some “green” public service announcement films commissioned by Animation Block Party.

9:00 pm – Screening Begins

Animation Block Party Galapagos Screening Lineup…

The Red Wheelbarrow – Lee Luker
Sycamore Eve – Evan Viera
Phantom Canyon – Stacey Steers
Ok, I’ll Let You Go – Greg Condon
The Million Colour Revolution – David Navas
Sunday Morning – Tom Senior
To The Door – Jon Brown
Cranium Theater – Jason Sandri
Rainy Day Muse – Heather K. MacDonald
Fission – Kun-I Chang
Side Dish – Squid
Put the Lights on the Tree – Tom Eaton
Hypervibes – Dae In Chung
A Water Creature – Y. Grace Park
Puppet – Pat Smith
Passing – Vanessa Woods
Doxology – Michael Langan
Welcome to Normal – Marianna Ellenberg and Jeremy Novak
Summary & Analysis – Andrea Hale
Dance Like a Monkey – Collection Agency Films

11:00 pm - New York’s Official Hip Hop Karaoke and free beer courtesy of Autodesk.

ABP July 30th:

Animation Block Party’s final night is at Bam Cinematek at The Peter Jay Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY on Monday July 30th.

Buy Advance Tickets Here for July 30th.

The BAM screenings will be at 6:50 and 9:15 screening at BAM. The 6:50 screening will be preceded by a short introductory discussion with participating filmmakers.

Animation Block Party Galapagos Screening Lineup…

Duke’s Diner – Ryan Bradley
Me-I – Mixtape Club and Daniel Garcia
When I Grow Up – Michelle R. Meeker
Art’s Desire – Sarah Wickliffe
An Introduction to Lucid Dream Exploration – John Paul Grigsby
Soda Copped - Chester Knebel
The Intruder – Alessandro Ceglia
The Pit and the Pendulum – Marc Lougee
Lost in Snow – Vladmir Lesciov
How She Slept at Night – Lilli Carre
Much Love to all – Garrett Koeppicus
T-Day – Matt Smith
Bare – Andy Lyon
The Coffee Bird – Bryan Brinkman
Everything will be ok – Don Hertzfeldt
The Secret Life of Robots – Frederator
Swing – Esteban Azuela

The after party will begin at 9:00pm, just blocks away at Mullanes Bar and Grill on 71 Lafayette Ave Brooklyn, NY.

Extra Animation Block Party Film Info

ANIMATION BLOCK PARTY

JULY 27, ABP AT ROOFTOP FILMS:

Animation Block Intro – Scott Dodson (before all screenings)

Sopranos Ending Revealed – Martin Abrahams (45 seconds)

A classic animators re-interprets the ending to the ultimate new millennium television show.

Hell’s Angels Safehouse – Ashley Holzwasser (2:15 min)

Based on true events, a friend describes her experiences in Lynn, Massachusetts at a Hells Angels safe house. This is a hand-drawn ink and marker piece.

The Powers That Be – Will White (3:00 min)

Undercover butt kicking takes on a new name in this short thriller.

Infinite Justice – Karl Tebbe (2:15 min)

Taking fragments from war reports shown on German television - Iraq war at its best - and reconstructing them frame by frame with action figures sold in the USA. This isn't Disney. Not Team America. This is war. And we have friends on both sides.

Symbol – Ron Crawford (1:20 min)

Visual interpretations of the peace sign.

The Return of Sergeant Pecker – Pierre Delarue (2:00 min)

The Return of Sergeant Pecker is a romantic comedy.

Brain Wash – Woodrow Martin (1:36 min)

Sometimes you just need to clean your head.

Crapass – Mike Chiechi (2:06 min)

Don’t look in the toilet or you might find crapass.

Peeper – Luis Cerritos (3:50 min)

A teenager with sexy neighbors.

Little Guys – David Pagano (2:56 min)

Lego parody of/homage to the toy commercials during the late '80s/early '90s.

Barney The Terrier – Anny Slater (1:20 min)

Barney, The White House Scottish Terrier talks with his Secret Service security guard about life in the White House.

The Wisdom Tooth – Philippa Rice (3:39 min)

A man discovers that his new wisdom tooth can speak to him and give him 'wise' advise.

Flowers of Evil – Adam Ansorge (15 seconds)

Flowers make bad friends.

Ugly – Dan Lundquist (2:48 min)

The story of a person who believes themselves the ugliest person in the world and how they deal with it.

Peanut Butter Fish Pockets – Steve Stark (2:00 min)

First we select only the finest of dead fish. We place them in a pastry pocket and inject it with peanut butter. Then we leave the pockets in the sun for weeks until they are just right.

The Ghost of Sam Peckinpah – Jason Brewer (15 min)

A young, gritty cowboy named Jack Yeager stirs up the town of Deep Sands, Utah, and wakes the ghost of legendary filmmaker Sam Peckinpah. Together they march into the heart of Hollywood on a mission to put the capital W back in Western.

Intermission

Polka - Rodolfo Collado Hernandez (5:25 min)

A whimsical animated story about a shy, young girl who tries to establish a conversation with an interesting stranger.

Type A – R. Smith (1:54 min)

“Type A” person’s anger getting the best of him as he tries to write a letter

Blunted – Lamar Sanders (30 sec)

Getting stoned outside the Quickie Mart is not always a good idea.

Shut Eye Hotel – Bill Plympton (7:03 min)

Two detectives try to solve mysterious disappearances at a local hotel.

Flock Off – Matt Lee (1:00 min)

Birds are often full of poop.

Manning – Anton Bogaty (4:22 min)

A boy encounters strange entities one afternoon while playing in his bedroom.

The Legend of Cranky Verne – Laika (45 sec)

Just leave Crank Verne alone, he’s cranky.

Untitled – Anthony Mair (3:45 min)

The poignant tale of a boy and his lizard.

Stoned Wheat – Jake Friedman (1:58 min)

A short cartoon that takes a stupid pun out of control.

Atomic Banana – Erik Kling (4:50 min)

Intellectually enhanced chimp versus cruel genius in a battle for the ultimate prize...Bananas!

Ivan’s Act – Emmett Goodman (3:42 min)

A stop motion look at a fumbling magician.

After School Midnight – Hitoshi Takekiyo (6:55 min)

When the veil of night goes down turns into a stage for his show time for a biology skeleton.

The Meatrix 2 1/2 – Sustainable Table and Free Range Studios, Louis Fox (2:46 min)

The Meatrix as our heroes Moopheus, Leo, and Chickity take on another facet of industrial agriculture - meat processing.

Animation Block Outro – Anneli Strassler (after all screenings)

JULY 28, ABP AT THE PIONEER THEATER:

Utopiate – Lee Noble (2:41 min)

In a monochromatic urban landscape, citizens become bored with existence until a giant killer monster comes to destroy their dreadful sprawling city, and deliver them from their tortured lives.

Prey – Tom Kyzivat (2:21 min)

A tale that cautions to not judge a book by its cover as might is pitted against meekness.

Eye Sore - Johnny Castuciano (2:11 min)

Catching up with your lost eye can make you sore.

View-O-Rama – Chelsea Manifold (7:03 min)

A young girl saves her family from an evil television.

Jose y Maria – Edward Juan (4:12 min)

A ghost making pies at church leads to disaster.

Snake – Becky James (3:09 min)

Deceptively playful, Snake is a film about stubbornness in the face of change.

Floor Kids (B-Boy Live vs B-Boy Nugs) – Jonathan NG and Kid Koala (4:03 min)

This is what happens when a b-boy dance-off goes awry.

Raccoon and Crawfish – Four Directions Productions (7:37 min)

A hungry raccoon searches for food and finds a crawfish on a quest for glory. Their battle will decide the fate between an ego full of pride or a belly full of food.

The Ballad of Thaddeus Lowe – Kelly Jones (5:01 min)

Thaddeus Lowe's passion for hot air balloons lead to a career as the first member of the Union Army Balloon Corp during the Civil War. The catchy tune in this ballad will ensure that Thaddeus Lowe will never be forgotten! Song, Dance, Guns, and War! What more could you ask for?

Hedgehug – Dan Pinto (5:19 min)

Who loves a Hedge hug?

Cole Needs Women - David Chai (8:17 min)

A heartwarming “coming of age”, science fiction, romantic, action, comedic, thriller about an adolescent youth faced with an impossible dilemma; give up everything he’s ever loved or take responsibility for the end of mankind!

Once Upon a Putt in the West – Imran Awan (1:50 min)

Another rough and tumble day at the mini-golf course.

Linear Progression - Kat Kosmala (4:05 min)

Strange creatures! Beautiful animation! Grass! What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? Such conundrums and charm abound in Linear Progression.

Escargo – Hubert Chan (1:06 min)

There are many things to enjoy about snails.

Zoologic – Nicole Mitchell (4:31 min)

A fussy zookeeper contends with an uncooperative little penguin.

A Faery’s Tale – Sylvia Apostol (3:00 min)

A tooth fairy goes into town to search for new teeth for its collection.

Dragon – Troy Morgan (7:02 min)

After her parents die in a tragic fire, a young girl is sent to an orphanage where she takes solace in drawing fiery visions.

Worst Case Scenario # 12, Home Invasion – Katerina Dzolganovski (1:38 min)

What not to do when there’s a monster in your house.

Ape Shit – Bob Ray (4:15 min)

College life can be a blast: keg parties, hot co-eds, human papilloma virus, monkey roommates... and finding yourself.

JULY 29, ABP AT THE GALAPAGOS ART SPACE:

The Red Wheelbarrow – Lee Luker (1:40 min)

Animation based on a W.C. Williams poem.

Sycamore Eve – Evan Viera (6:12 min)

A young girl protects her planet's most sacred resource one bucket at a time.

Phantom Canyon – Stacey Steers (9:51 min)

A young woman encounters enormous insects and an alluring man with bat wings in this surreal recollection of a pivotal journey. This animated film was made by photographing over 4000 handmade collages and features the figures from Edward Muybridge's human motion studies.

Ok, I’ll Let You Go – Greg Condon (2:18 min)

One of the oddest music videos you will ever see.

The Million Colour Revolution – David Navas (3:46 min)

This video for The Pinker Tones' 'The Million Colour Revolution' is a visual metaphor for a brighter future.

Sunday Morning – Tom Senior (1:43 min)

What is it about Sunday Mornings?

To The Door – Jon Brown (2:57 min)

A creature just wants to get to the door, but weird stuff keeps getting in the way.

Cranium Theater – Jason Sandri (6:41 min)

A quirky critique of the excessive demands of Church and State on the common man. The Brain Farmer tends his crop of brain cabbages, only to find himself helpless against those who desire what is his.

Rainy Day Muse – Heather K. MacDonald (3:00 min)

An odd creature confronts his own fears through a strange dream.

Fission – Kun-I Chang (4:48 min)

A motion graphic film about a man that sees himself as graffiti on the wall.

Side Dish – Squid (3:53 min)

When the pineapple you are sleeping in gets bumped by a zigzag, you can end up in a really strange situation. Surreal flash-animated music video for quirky electro band, Psapp.

Put the Lights on the Tree – Tom Eaton (2:05 min)

A holiday music greeting from Sufjan Stevens.

Hypervibes – Dae In Chung (2:59 min)

Aluminum bars with resonators and motor driven fans.

A Water Creature – Y. Grace Park (1:23 min)

As water sips into dry lands a creature is awaken. Through its eyes followed is the journey of water.

Puppet – Pat Smith (6:24 min)

Through an escalating series of torture, a possessed sock puppet embodies fear and willful self-destruction.

Passing – Vanessa Woods (1:18 min)

Passing is a short film that explores the idea of passing (passing time, passing histories, and passing away). To create the film, self-portrait photographs of the filmmaker, taken in an abandoned home, were used as a stage to re-inhabit and reinvent through single frame animation.

Doxology – Michael Langan (6:08 min)

'Doxology' is a humorously allegorical animation, exploring the relationship between the terrestrial and the celestial via singing tennis balls.

Welcome to Normal – Marianna Ellenberg and Jeremy Novak (6:38 min)

An Exquisite Corpse compendium of hypnotic sounds, symptoms and neurological disorders. Instructional video meets psychedelic Haiku—treatment is just around the corner.

Summary & Analysis – Andrea Hale (3:05 min)

An animated tale of high school laziness on the part of both student and instructor.

Dance Like a Monkey – Collection Agency Films (3:25 min)

'Dance Like a Monkey' explores the 150 year debate between creationists and scientists. Conclusion: just DANCE LIKE A MONKEY! Music by the New York Dolls.

JULY 30, ABP AT BAM CINEMATEK.

Duke’s Diner – Ryan Bradley (1:30 min)

A guy eats the best burger of his life.

Me-I – Mixtape Club (3:16 min)

Fantastic lyrical TV on the Radio video set somewhere between dreams and nightmares.

When I Grow Up – Michelle R. Meeker (6:39 min)

'When I Grow Up' juxtaposes the boundless ambition of youthful expectations with the unpredictable, and sometimes tragic realities we end up living. An international team of 12 artists each brings their unique visions to a series of interviews with children and elders.

Art’s Desire – Sarah Wickliffe (4:13 min)

A character from a famous painting about war escapes into the museum in search of a better world. In doing so, she learns to create that world for herself.

An Introduction to Lucid Dream Exploration – John Paul Grigsby (3:55 min)

This four minute silent animation was painstakingly created by hand, frame by frame on an etch a sketch. It is a journey through the depths of the lucid sub-consciousness in search of self-realization.

Soda Copped - Chester Knebel (4:12 min)

Quench your thirst before you rob a bank.

The Intruder – Alessandro Ceglia (3:17 min)

A woman, alone in her house, has been receiving a series of mysterious phone calls. When she attempts to calm her nerves with a mixture of medication and alcohol, her fears take on a new form.

The Pit and the Pendulum – Marc Lougee (7:09 min)

The Pit and the Pendulum, rediscovers this tale of judgment, condemnation, despair, hope, and eventual redemption.

Lost in Snow – Vladmir Lesciov (7:27 min)

In winter some people go ice fishing. Excitement intensified by freezing temperatures and strong drinks lead to unpredictable consequences.

How She Slept at Night – Lilli Carre (3:17 min)

In this hand-drawn animation, a man tries to remember his wife but only comes up with scant details as his memory begins to stray.

Much Love to all – Garrett Koeppicus (28 sec)

A short ride on the subway.

T-Day – Matt Smith (1:32 min)

The cute and cuddly side of war.

Bare – Andy Lyon (2:59 min)

In a world of Big Business Bears, one little bear dares to be bare.

The Coffee Bird – Bryan Brinkman (4:43 min)

A simple story of a man and his bird.

Everything will be ok – Don Hertzfeldt (16:54 min)

A series of dark and troubling events forces Bill to reckon with the meaning of his life - or lack thereof.

The Secret Life of Robots – Frederator (5:01 min)

An animation collaboration exploring the existence of robots. and answering an age-old question: "What is it like to be a robot?"

Swing – Esteban Azuela (3:31 min)

Old couples will not sit in park benches for eternity.