Mills Folly Microcinema presents Project Projection: Local Animation, a program of locally produced traditional and experimental animation, Wednesday, November 11, at 7:00pm. Free admission, donations encouraged.
Pressure Mixtape | Madison East Hip Hop Studies & Lindbergh Elementary | 2026 | 6:20
Off-kilter and inventive animation by 2nd-5th graders at Lindbergh Elementary School in Madison Wisconsin, set to music from the Madison East High School Hip Hop Studies program. Working alongside teaching-artist Dawry Ruiz (D.A.R.S.), the high school students found samples, produced beats, wrote verses and put together a mixtape called “Da Pressure.” Students at Lindbergh meanwhile, listened to the tracks, created their own art, and brought it to life with stop-motion animation. (Description: Driftless Film Festival)
Bittersweet | Anna Bitonti | 2025 | 3:11
Grumpy and set in his ways, a small-town ice cream shop owner with a sour attitude and no patience for joyous customers, must learn to adjust as his business melts faster than a sundae on a hot summer day.
Buick – Rafaella | Michael Doyle Olson | 2021 | 3:34
Sometimes you think something is going to go one way and then it goes another way. This video was like that. The important thing is to have fun along the way. This video is a lyric video and contains a lot of pink.
Arachne | Crestwood Elementary | 2025 | 10:05
A delightfully askew interpretation of a well-known Greek myth by the 4th and 5th grade students of Crestwood Elementary school in Madison. The tale of a girl with a talent so great it threatens the gods, told with just the right amount of Gen Alpha twistedness. Instructor, editor: Luke Bassuener. (Description: Driftless Film Festival)
The Trip | Kurt Sensenbrenner | 2022 | 3:52
Phoebe, a 16-year-old with PKU—a rare metabolic disorder, and her mother, take us on a family vacation to Costa Rica where some mischievous wildlife get into their prescription formula stash! What did they learn from that sticky situation?
True Love Will Find You In The End | Noah Guthier | 2024 | 3:00
This animation is the final scene of a 20-minute movement-based short film. The film is an autobiographical, surreal story about two queer friends trapped in an endless cycle of dance performances that transport them through times and places both familiar and unimaginable. The animation brings the film to a dreamlike conclusion, blurring the lines between performance, memory, and imagination.
Miles Morales: The Ultimate Spider-Man (FIVE MINUTE CLIP) | Keasion Griffin | 5:49
It's a 5-minute short clip about Miles Morales and Mayday Parker stopping a corporation called roxxon until Something gets in their way.
Bucket House | Gregg Williard | 2026 | 8:30
An injured boy and girl go in search of healing waters from a well. They encounter a city of flying buckets, and a Baba-Yaga figure guarding the well. Within her house they find a silence, and a reconing.
Lipsplosion | Sara Lessmann, Music by Arnold Cifax Jr | 2022 | 4:57
Lipsplosion: two friends, one runaway chapstick, and a day out that gets stranger by the minute. What is this thing, and why won’t it stop moving? An animated short with an experimental score by Arnold Cifax Jr.
Odd Honk Out | Steve Chappell, Alan Ginsberg | 2026 | 17 min
Odd Honk Out puts a tongue-in-beak twist on the age-old Ugly Duckling tale. Based on the true story of a pair of Sandhill Cranes who adopt a Canada gosling, Steve Chappell and Alan Ginsberg turn this classic story of belonging upside down—with a few unexpected honks along the way!
How to Save a Baby from a Snake Attack | Chris Bennett | 2023 | 1:05
A baby is saved from a snake attack by their caretaker.
Heavy Visuals Stop Motion Animation Reel 2025 | Eric J. Nelson | 2025 | 1:30
A demo reel of stop motion projects from Heavy Visuals (Director, Stop Motion Animator, Cinematographer Eric J. Nelson).
ABOUT MILLS FOLLY MICROCINEMA
Mills Folly Microcinema showcases nationally recognized experimental film and video art from the festival and microcinema circuit. We network with regional filmmakers and organizations to bring filmmakers and guest programmers to Madison for screenings. And we incubate local experimental filmmaking by providing screen time at Project Projection events.
