The Block Museum of Art welcomes the 2025 Eyeworks Experimental Animation Screening Series for events on Saturday, November 8th.

Program 1 at 12:00 PM

Program 2 at 2:45 PM

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. Eyeworks is curated by Alexander Stewart and Lilli Carré, and is presented by Pioneer Works.

Program 1 at 12:00 PM

Lives of Firecrackers, Sandy Moore (Duration: 14’ / Year: 1979 / Format: 16mm / 16mm transferred to video)

Busy Bodies, Kate Renshaw-Lewis (Duration: 6’ / Year: 2025 / Format: Video)

Mother’s Child, Naomi Noir (Duration: 9’ / Year: 2024 / Format: Video)

Liquid Light & Its Quadrilateral Cage, Rodrigo Salcedo (Duration: 2’ / Year: 2006 / Format: Video)

The Graffiti, Ryo Orikasa (Duration: 12’ / Year: 2025 / Format: Video)

Help I’m Being Crushed to Death by a Black Rectangle, Carter Burwell (Duration: 3’ / Year: 1977 / Format: 16mm transferred to video)

And a Little For Me, Kathryn Roake (Duration: 6’ / Year: 2024 / Format: Video)

Luna Rossa, Priit and Olga Pärn (Duration: 32’ / Year: 2024 / Format: Video)

Total runtime: ~83 min

Program 2 at 2:45 PM

Skippy Peanut Butter Jars, Copper Frances Giloth (Duration: 4’ / Year: 1980 / Format: Video)

Mandala, Jordan Belson (Duration: 3’ / Year: 1953 / Format: 16mm transferred to video) Courtesy the Estate of Jordan Belson

Friends, Shopping, and Food, Michael Lopez (Duration: 14’ / Year:2025 / Format: Video)

Interview, Caroline Leaf & Veronika Soul (Duration: 13’ / Year: 1979 / Format: 35mm transferred to video)

Portales, Elena Duque (Duration: 16’ / Year: 2025 / Format: 16mm transferred to video)

Long Live Livia, Zach Dorn (Duration: 16’ / Year: 2025 / Format: Video)

Deluge, Meejin Hong (Duration: 12’ / Year: 2024 / Format: Video)

Total runtime: ~78 min

Festival curators Alexander Stewart and Lilli Carré in person.

Eyeworks 2025 artwork is by Susan Te Kahurangi King.