Comfort Film Welcomes Guest Film Curator Dena Springer

Mirror Image

Mirror Image celebrates the diverse voices of contemporary animators locally and internationally. The program features a breadth of animated shorts that span across genres to reflect the new generation of filmmakers. We’re excited to feature the following:

Jake Huffcutt, Understanding (4 mins)
Dan Forke, Birth (2 mins)
Hector Padilla, Quiver Dance (2 mins)
Adam Sillard, Gabrielle Selnet, and Chloe Farr, Au Revoir, Jerome! (8 mins)
Haomin Peng
Roby Cottard, Quand Hypnos Dort Def, (2 mins)
Jeanette Fantone, The Walk to Obon, (2 mins)
Jenna Caravello, Frontier Wisdom, (7 mins)
Cory Feder, Heavy Blanket, (7 mins)
Lilli Carre, Tap Water (5 mins)
David de la Fuente, Compositions for Understanding Relationships, (6 mins)

About Dena Springer: Dena Springer is a bi-racial Asian-American animator & illustrator based in Chicago. Her work both magnifies and reduces behaviors within groups to respond to ideological structures between Eastern and Western perspectives. She uses vintage educational videos, instruction manuals, and old illustrations to respond to cultural definitions of role, gender, and identity.
Her animated films have been screened at festivals such as GLAS Animation Festival, Ottawa International Animation Festival, & Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival.

Media: Digital Projection
Free screening inside Comfort Station.

Programmed by Raul Benitez, Emily Perez, and Mathew Tapey.

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