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Twinning: Animated Inspirations Curated by Jamie Griffiths

Mills Folly Microcinema presents Twinning: "Gemini" and animated inspirations, curated by Jamie Griffiths, a program of surrealist and experimental animated shorts on Wednesday, May 21, 2025, at 7:00pm. Admission $5.00, free for ALL members. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. 

This program highlights Jamie Griffiths' most recent hand-drawn animation, Gemini (2024), as well as experimental work by colleagues and other luminaries that give a general sense of the context in which Gemini was made. Gemini has screened at several North American and international film festivals, including Slamdance Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Open World Animation Festival. Special thanks to Mills Folly programmer Grant Phipps for coordinating this screening.  

Stay tuned . . . more titles to be added before the screening date!

 

Furies by Sara Petty

Furies | Sara Petty | USA | 1977 | 2:59 
Cubist and Art Deco-inspired designs evoke the curiosity, grace, and beauty of two cats in constant motion.

 

 

good dog by Zekkereya El-Megharbel

good dog | Zekkereya El-Megharbel | USA | 2017 | 2:00
A study of the end of the grieving process, when raw emotions mix with, and give way to, benign nostalgia.

 

2012 | Inga Raschka | USA | 2017 | 5:58
Two would-be lovers meet for an online date against the backdrop of the looming 2012 apocalypse hoax.

 

Sparky by Dian Liang

Sparky | Dian Liang | USA | 2019 | 4:19
Sparky likes to gaze out of the window, to see every possible or impossible thing.

 

 

Triangle by Grace Nayoon Rhee

Triangle | Grace Nayoon Rhee | USA | 2012 | 6:09
What would you do if a stranger disrupted your daily routine? The choice is whether to accept this person as a friend, or reject him as an outsider.

 

One Day | Zilai Feng | USA | 2018 | 1:53
A man goes to sleep in his room.

 

 

Dumb Day by Kevin Eskew

Dumb Day | Kevin Eskew | USA | 2013 | 9:31
Flower sniffing, carpet calisthenics, and other restless leisure-time activities. Domestic life can be tough. Finally, the day breaks.

 

Gemini by Jamie Griffiths

Gemini | Jamie Griffiths | USA | 2024 | 6:41
A woman begins to see something unsettling hiding in the eyes of her two pet cats.

 

Animation filmmaker Jamie Steele Griffiths

Jamie Steele Griffiths (b. 2000, Burlington, VT, USA) is an animated filmmaker and visual artist who loves pencil and paper. Her films have screened at Ann Arbor Film Festival and Slamdance, and she won Best Student Film at Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival in 2024. Her drawings have been featured in the Hammer Museum's Graphite Interdisciplinary Journal of the Arts. She is currently based in Los Angeles, California.

This event is made possible by support from Dane Arts; Madison Arts Commission with additional funds from Wisconsin Arts Board. Additional funds also provided by Endres Manufacturing Company Foundation, the Evjue Foundation, Inc., charitable arm of The Capital Times, the W. Jerome Frautschi Foundation, and the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation. Support also provided by a generous anonymous donor.

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