The 9th annual Eyeworks Festival is coming in November! Official dates and locations for the 2018 festival:
November 3rd, 2018: REDCAT, Los Angeles
November 10th, 2018: Block Cinema, Chicago
November 26, 2018: Pioneer Works, New York
Very excited about this year's festival artwork above, created by Robert Beatty.
Lineups and more info will be posted in the coming weeks!
This month Eyeworks is coming to The Drawing Center in NYC! Funhouse is organized by Desert Island and The Drawing Center, and is a new interactive book fair at which guests can make their own books in collaboration with resident artists. As part of the Funhouse programming, Eyeworks will be presenting a one-hour animation screening on
Sunday, March 25th
1:30pm
at The Drawing Center
35 Wooster Street, New York, NY 10013
Tickets to the fair are $10 and you can get them here. The tickets include the screening, but you need to RSVP here.
Program:
Paper Trail, Jake Fried, 1:00, 2017
No Stories Now, Chris Bishop, 4:24, 2017
The Classroom, Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva, 2:57, 2012
Mirror People, Kathy Rose, 5:00, 1974
Everybody, Steve Reinke + Jessie Mott, 4:05, 2009
Monster Movie, Takeshi Murata, 4:20, 2005
No Place Like Home, Karen Yasinsky, 5:17, 1999
Moon Breath Beat, Lisze Bechtold, 5:00, 1980
The Beholder, Chris Sullivan, 8:36, 1983
Krell Experiment Recording 7, Sam Bell, 3:34, 2017
Ecto Petrol Patrol, Matthew Thurber, 1:27, 2018
Mountain Castle Mountain Flower Plastic, Annapurna Kumar, 3:08, 2017
Soft Body Goal, Jaakko Pallasvuo, 3:37, 2017
Trailer credits:
Hans Richter, Filmstudie; Ted Wiggin, Lo; Johan Rijpma, Extrapolate; Annapurna Kumar, Mountain Castle Mountain Flower Plastic; Elisabeth Belliveau, Troisieme; Sarina Nihei, Rabbit's Blood; Simon Gerbaud, saVer; Lilian Hardouineau, Invocation; Shelley Lake, Polly Gone; Sam Bell, Krell Experiment; Wojciech Bąkowski, Dry Standpipe; Steve Reinke & Jessie Mott, Eat Your Secrets; Jaakko Pallasvuo, Soft Body Goal; Chris Bishop, No Stories Now.
Eyeworks 2017 illustration by Stefanie Leinhos
The 2017 Eyeworks Festival is happening Saturday, October 21, at the REDCAT theater in Los Angeles. The festival programs will screen at the Block Cinema in Chicago on Nov. 11, at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn on Nov. 28, and in Richmond, VA on Nov. 30
Eyeworks Festival 7
Nov. 11 & 12, Block Cinema, Northwestern University, Chicago
Nov. 19 & 20, REDCAT Theater, Los Angeles
Nov. 26, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn
Trailer credits:
Eri Kawaguchi, Wild Wild Ham; Anibal Bley, Siniestro del Jefe; Jim Trainor, The Moschops; Jaques Verbeek & Karin Wiertz, The Case of the Spiral Staircase; Martin Sulzer, King James Version Genesis Chapter Nineteen; Ryo Orikasa, Datum Point; Peter Burr, The Mess; György Kovásznai, Habfürdő; Ryoya Usuha, Open a Manhole Cover While Walking; Karl Sims, Evolved Virtual Creatures; Hoji Tsuchiya, Visit from Hotoke at the Cape; Sabrina Ratté, Portals; Barry Doupé, A Boy on a Dock Blowing His Nose; Brian Smee, Lazy Daze.
Eyeworks 2016 illustration by Alexis Beauclair
The 2016 Eyeworks Festival is being planned for Nov. 19 & 20 at the REDCAT theater in Los Angeles. Screenings will also take place in Chicago and New York. Details to follow!
Two screenings are scheduled for spring 2016. Both will feature the two shorts programs from our fall 2015 festival.
Tuesday, March 22, Union Cinema, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Thursday, March 24, Grace Street Theater, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
Eyeworks will present a program at the 2015 BilBolBul International Comics Festival in Bologna, Italy. The program will screen at 6:00 PM at the Cineteca di Bologna.
Program lineup here.
Nov. 5-7, Block Cinema, Northwestern University, Chicago
Nov. 28, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn
Dec. 12, CalArts, Los Angeles
Image from Tanka, David Lebrun, 1976
Eyeworks will present a program representing five years of the festival at the 2015 Animation Block Party at BAMcinematek in Brooklyn on July 31. The program features classic and contemporary works, including a brand-new digital restoration of David Lebrun's 1976 film Tanka. The Eyeworks program runs at 7PM at the BAM Rose Cinemas, with other Animation Block Party screenings taking place throughout the weekend.
Lillian Schwartz, Pixilliation, 1970, USA, 4:00
Ian Cheng, bbrraattss, 2013, USA, 3:15
Stefan Gruber, Kevin Glick, & Lienors Allen, Light Weight, 1999, USA 3:00
Larry Cuba, Two Space, 1979, USA 8:00
Florence Miailhe, Hammam, 1992, France 9:00
Yoriko Mizushiri, Futon, 2012, Japan 6:00
Sally Cruikshank, Make Me Psychic, 1978, USA, 8:00
Jim Trainor, The Presentation Theme, 2008, USA 14:00
Brandon Blommaert, aaa[A]aaa, 2012, Canada, 2:30
David Lebrun, Tanka, 1976, USA 10:00