This year’s iteration of Eyeworks presents two programs of short films on Saturday, November 16 at 12:00 and 2:45 PM. Programs are open to all, on a first-come first-served basis. RSVPs not required but appreciated.

About Eyeworks:

The Eyeworks Experimental Animation Screening Series is an annual event focusing on experimental animation, with screening events in Chicago, LA, and NY 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, founded in 2010, is to present works that engage the enormous potential inherent in the artform of animation, and to show pieces that use animation as part of distinctly personal, conceptual, exploratory, and critical practices. Past festival guests with retrospective screenings have included David OReilly, Lori Damiano, Nancy Andrews, Caleb Wood, Takeshi Murata, Martin Arnold, Jacolby Satterwhite, Naoyuki Tsuji, Janie Geiser, Laura Harrison, Barry Doupé, and Al Jarnow. The 2024 Eyeworks guest is Yoriko Mizushiri, with a retrospective screening at 2220 Arts + Archives in Los Angeles. Eyeworks is curated by Alexander Stewart and Lilli Carré, and is presented by Pioneer Works.

Festival curators Alexander Stewart and Lilli Carré in person!

Looping before programs:

Animated loops by Yoriko Mizushiri

Program 1 – Nov 16, 12pm

Messages, Yellow Ball Workshop (Duration: 6’ / Year: 1972 / Format: Video)

The Falling Sky, Peggy Ahwesh (Duration: 9’20” / Year: 2017 / Format: Video)

Mirror Products Catalog, Annapurna Kumar (Duration: 5’00” / Year: 2024 / Format: Video)

Pteryphlegia, Louis Smits (Duration: 6’43” / Year: 1986 / Format: Video)

Inukshuk, Timmun Alariaq (Duration: 3’00” / Year: 1973 / Format: Video)

Rat City, Wendell McShine (Duration: 10’36” / Year: 2024 / Format: Video)

ABC in Sound, László Moholy-Nagy (Duration: 2’00” / Year: 1933 / Format: Video)

Apotheosis, Lillian Schwartz (Duration: 4’ / Year: 1973 / Format: Video)

Body Sketches, Ruth Hayes (Duration: 5’52” / Year: 1978 / Format: Video)

Magic Man, Salomonie Pootoogook (Duration: 1’30” / Year: 1973 / Format: Video)

In Dreams, Josh Shaffner (Duration: 17’16” / Year: 2023 / Format: Video)

Program 2 – Nov 16, 2:45pm

Rockers, Ed Counts (Duration: 4’25” / Year: 1990 / Format: 16mm)

Parabola, Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth (Duration: 9’00” / Year: 1938 / Format: Video)

Now or Never, Ezra Wube (Duration: 5’48” / Year: 2024 / Format: Video)

Wasteland No. 3: Moons, Sons, Jodie Mack (Duration: 5’00” / Year: 2021 / Format: 16mm / Silent)

Sweat, EXYL (Duration: 2’15” / Year: 2021 / Format: Video)

Speed Reader, Jennifer Levonian (Duration: 4’25” / Year: 2024 / Format: Video)

Adulting, James Duesing (Duration: 8’15” / Year: 2024 / Format: Video)

Pomeriggio, Ira Vicari (Duration: 3’17” / Year: 2023 / Format: Video)

Laitue, Nicholas Brooks (Duration: 9’20” / Year: 2008 / Format: Video)

Love Under Will of the Hag’s Long Tooth, Mica O’Herlihy (Duration: 3’10” / Year: 2015 / Format: Video)

Smile Driver, Jessica Wilson (Duration: 7’56” / Year: 2019 / Format: Video)

Afterlife, Ishu Patel (Duration: 7’18” / Year: 1978 / Format: Video)

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2024 Eyeworks artwork by Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva

Please note: Programs are open to all and will be seated on a first-come first-served basis. RSVPs do not guarantee a seat; early arrival is recommended. Museum doors open at 11:30 AM, and seating will begin shortly after for the first program. The second program will begin seating around 2:15 PM. Be aware, Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation is recommended for mature viewers.

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Tags: 2024 Eyeworks Experimental Animation Series, Alexander Stewart, Annapurna Kumar, Block Museum, Ed Counts, Evanston, EXYL, Ezra Wube, Ira Vicari, Ishu Patel, James Duesing, Jennifer Levonian, Jessica Wilson, jodie mack, Josh Shaffner, László Moholy-Nagy, Lilli Carré, Lillian Schwartz, Louis Smits, Mary Ellen Bute, Mica O'Herlihy, Nicholas Brooks, Northwestern, Peggy Ahwesh, Ruth Hayes, Salomonie Pootoogook, Ted Nemeth, Timmun Alariaq, Wendell McShine, Yoriko Mizushiri