OPEN SEASON (Raquel Chapa, Texas, 2009, 14 minutes)
This documentary painfully recounts the moving stories of indigenous survivors of sexual assault in the United States.

THE DRIFT (Kelly Sears, Texas, 2007, 8:15 minutes)
Reminiscent of Lost in Space, frame by frame animation is used to weave an absurd fable about our country’s unflinching frontier-ism and the desire to push too far, too fast.

CIVILIAN (Seaton Lin, California, 2009, 3:00 minutes )
This film offers a glimpse into the hypnosis sessions that took place between Dr. Benjamin Simon and Betty Hill shortly after her abduction in 1961.

THE TERMS
(Jason LaMotte, 2010, Texas/UK, 10:00 minutes, English subtitles)
A struggle between father and son plays out against a timeless, barren landscape of youthful dreams and aged resignation.

A HIRED MAN (UN HOMME DE MAIN)
(Martin Talbot, Canada, 17:12 minutes, English subtitles)
Taking a turn in the wrong direction, a man finds himself enrolled in a dance class he did not choose.

LAREDO, TEXAS (Topaz Adizes, New York, 2010, 10:30 minutes)
Training a new employee to fix pay phones, tensions begin to boil when Sam suspects that Juan is an undocumented worker.

TRECE ANOS (Topaz Adizes, New York, 2009, 7:30 minutes, Spanish with English subtitles)
When he returns to his family in Cuba for the first time in 13 years, Guillermo experiences a greater divide than just distance.

ENTRE SOMBRAS (BETWEEN SHADOWS) (Fernanda Segura, Mexico, 2009, 4:30 minutes, no dialog)
Deceptively simple, this extraordinary stop motion animation tells the story of Yupilda whose experience of violence by other women leads to her destruction.

LEV (Laura Yilmaz, California, 2009, 2:30 minutes, no dialog)
Drowned out by the music of strangers, a lonely janitor longs for connection.

NEW MEDIA (J.J. Adler, New York, 2010, 19:00 minutes)
Living in luxury, through no achievement of his own, an out-of touch, middle-aged poseur tries to get in on the latest Internet craze.

VOICE ON THE LINE (Kelly Sears, Texas, 2009, 6:40 minutes)
This collage animation of figures cut out of archival ephemeral films from the 1950s, mixes historical events with reflections on relationships between national security, civil liberties, and telephone companies.

IN COLD LOVE (Franck Blaess, Canada, 2009, 10:00 minutes)
Doing what he has to do, collecting whoever has to be; a lonely, dispossessed man is sentenced to carry an extraordinary burden.

CENTIGRADE (Madison Graie, Canada, 2007, 15:00 minutes)
In this intense contemporary thriller, a man taken hostage aboard a rolling nightmare will have to use his wits in order to survive.

VILLAGE OF IDIOTS (Eugene Fedorenko & Rose Newlove, Canada, 1999, 12:40 minutes, Yiddish with English subtitles)

Weary of daily life in his native village, a man sets out to find a new life in this animated version of a classic Jewish folk tale.

BIG HANDS (Aaron Holloway, Texas, 2009, 9:30 minutes)
When a tightly knit family is torn apart by new love interests, the youngest child devises a plan to take her back to the way things once were.

WHAT’S VIRGIN MEAN? (Michael Davies, UK, 2008, 3:00 minutes)
Much to her dismay, a mother discovers that sometimes little questions need big answers.

HONORARIUM (Steve Mims, Texas, 12:30 minutes)
When a professor with controversial views arrives to speak at a university conference, he is met by more than he bargains for.

IMPASSE
(Bram Schouw, Netherlands, 2008, 4:40 minutes , no dialog)
Without words, we’re left to consider whether love and attraction can break through the impasse of human intolerance.

JOURNEY OF THE OPPORTUNIST
(Mark and Angela Walley, Texas, 2008, 7:00 minutes)
Human movement and migration bind the lives of thirteen characters as they move through daily life and love in the sweet poetry of this experimental film.

RETURN TO STOLOWICZE (Marek Dojs, Texas, 2008, 9:00 minutes)
The tragedy of war and displacement is recounted as the filmmaker traces his personal history in a lovely, poetic tribute to family and survival.

CHEEESE
(Huseyin Tabak, Germany/Austria, 2008 11:56 minutes, Arabic with English subtitles)
During the Iraq war, a Kurdish family waits for help from American troops in the basement of their collapsed house.

STRANGER’S POEM (Geer Dubois, 2009, USA, 5:15 minutes, no dialog)
Unaware that isolation has shaped their perception of reality, two strangers come to know each other through shared experiences.

MINOTAUROMAQUIA, PABLO IN THE LABYRINTH
(Juan Pablo Etchverry, Spain, 2004, 10:00 minutes, no dialog)
Inspired by Pablo Picasso’s work and mythology, this stop motion animation takes us on a journey into labyrinth of artistic creation.

WITHOUT YOU (Tal Rosner, UK, 5:00 minutes, no dialog)
Following colors and surfaces into abstraction, this visual exploration of London’s industrial suburbia reveals the complexity of apparently simple forms.

NOTEBOOK (Noteboek)
(Evelien Lohbeck, The Netherlands, 2008, 4:00 minutes, no dialog)
A Dutch artist challenges our expectations as she blurs the line between what is real and what is not in this fantastic animation.

LOST/IN MEMORIAM
(Anita Thacher, New York, 2006, 7 minutes, no dialog)
The splendid sensuality of stylized images of tulips and waving grasses are an apt elegy for creative lives of friends loved and lost.

MNEMOSYNE RISING (Miguel Alvarez, Texas, 2010, 20:00 minutes)
A solitary deep-space transmitter pilot begins to experience unusual flashbacks when he learns he’s being sent back to Earth.

SPACE TRAVEL ACCORDING TO JOHN
(Jamie Stone, Scotland, 2008, 3:00 minutes)
Sand animation is used to tell the story as a 10-year-old boy discusses his theories on the requirements and consequences of space travel.

IAMBR (Steven Day, California, 2009, 4:00 minutes, no dialog)
William Gibson’s Neuromancer and cyberpunk influence this integration of animation and live performance to explore identities in real and virtual space.