Thursday, May 9–Saturday, May 11 | Free

Featuring the work of over 50 School of the Art Institute of Chicago graduate and undergraduate students from the class of 2024, this festival includes unique works of animation, documentary, sound, and narrative, as well as feature-length projects by the next generation of moving image and sound artists. The 2024 festival is produced by the Department of Exhibitions and Exhibition Studies in collaboration with the Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation, coordinated by Emily Eddy, curated by Amy Beste, with support from Graduate Assistant Gordon Fung. Learn more and view full program details here.

Participating artists: Matt Alicz, Jordan Alston, Ethan Anderson, Ignacio Arias, Lee, Riley Brown, Ross Chavez, Lin Chen, Raymond Chen, Lisette Coles, Shangyu Dai, AJ Dubler, Jane Dunn, Miles Eden, Alex Esin, Martí Madaula Esquiro, Spencer Farrell, Andrea Guillen, Sydney Violet Gray, Yuxuan Hu, Zhichao Hu, Jazmyn Joi, Grace Kemp, Anastasia Khoubaeva, Sloan Klusendorf, Aida Grace Larson (pictured), Kris Liu, Emily Maloney, Emily Mogilner, Clay Mills, Benjamin Montague, Carmela Murphy, Kenny Nguyen, Bella Raquel Miller, Patrick Offenheiser, Sobe Okoye, Ike Peters, Linds Scott, Becka Erin Seifert, Ahmed Sharmarke, mads thelin, Twistw00d, Elle White, Wanlin Xia, Qinxi Yu, Xinyi Zhan, Bocheng Zhang, Yezhou Zheng, and Wenwen Zhu.

Free admission; acquire tickets at our box office or online. 

THURSDAY, MAY 9, 6:00 P.M. – PROGRAM 1
Layabout blue, Riley Brown, 1:43; The Flow, Wenwen Zhu, 4:28; Across the Field Tanks Rumbled like a Thunder (work-in-progress), Alex Esin, 16:59; Everyone I Know Is Gone, Emily Mogilner, 9:38; Tramuntana (work-in-progress), Martí Madaula Esquirol, 17:58; Small Comforts, Ben Montague, 4:00; Noon Lover, Wanlin Xia, 14:57; Chasing, Linds, 4:53

THURSDAY, MAY 9, 8:30 P.M. – PROGRAM 2
WORTH IN PROGRESS, Aida Grace Larson, 10:24; My Soul is a Cage on the Outside of My Body, Clay Mills, 25:19; Fishy Fish Fish, Andrea Guillen, 8:15; A Roaming Wind, Xinyi Zhan, 29:59; A Catastrophe, Grace Kemp, 6:00

FRIDAY, MAY 10, 6:00 P.M. – PROGRAM 3
Come to Our Assistance, Matt Alicz, 9:26; How to Say Goodbye in Yugoslavian, Patrick Offenheiser, 24:40; Fixed Odds: 10 Minutes in D Dorian, Lee, 10:00; Drifting (work-in-progress), Qinxi Yu, 25:00; Infinite, Yuxuan Hu, 8:04; Dream, Zhichao Hu, 3:06

FRIDAY, MAY 10, 8:30 P.M. – PROGRAM 4
What’s older than the hills? Jane Dunn, 4:30; Trip to Nowhere, Shangyu, 11:30; Sitting in the Middle pt. 1 (work-in-progress), Emily Maloney, 2:34; Shepherd, Bocheng Zhang, 9:49; Ritual of Spring, Lisette Coles, 5:21; Well Earned Rest, Ike Peters, 8:59; Couch (work-in-progress), Ross Chavez and Ellie Jackson, 12:22; Stagmite, Sydney Violet Gray, 13:28; Incurable, twistw00d, 6:50; Elegies Garden, Lisette Coles, 2:20

SATURDAY, MAY 11, 12:00 P.M. – PROGRAM 5
His Garden, Yezhou Zheng, 12:32; Sugar In the Water (work-in-progress), Lin Chen, 60:30

SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2:15 P.M. – PROGRAM 6​​​​​​​
The Concern of Cosmic Pressure, Becka Erin Seifert-O’Connor, 4:55; I Don’t Need a Metaphor to Tell Me About My Life, Raymond Chen, 10:43; So You’re Telling Me, A Shrimp Fried This Rice? Kenny Nguyen, 1:41; Talus, Jazmyn Joi, 14:02; Things Outside of Our Control (work-in-progress), Miles Eden, 15:09; 1032, Spencer Farrell, 9:27; Untitled, Sharmarke Ahmed, 8:50

SATURDAY, MAY 11, 4:45 P.M. – PROGRAM ​​​7
Spring Festival / 秋枫 (work-in-progress), Kris Liu, 54:27

SATURDAY, MAY 11, 6:30 P.M. – PROGRAM ​​​8​​​​​​​
Ace of Hearts, Jordan Alston, 2:42; A Guest from Elsewhere, Ethan Anderson, 8:40; Boto, Ignacio Arias, 5:00; A Bird Hit My Window and Now I’m a Lesbian (work-in-progress), Carmela Murphy and AJ Dubler, 8:13; im just not having a good time right now, mads thelin, 8:31; To Make our People Dance (work-in-progress), Bella Raquel Miller, 19:23; The Pleasure Principle, Elle White, 26:42; Thread of Conscience, Sobe, 3:02

SATURDAY, MAY 11, 9:00 P.M. – PROGRAM ​​9​
Montage of Sloan, Sloan Klusendorf, 57:00

​​​​​​​The Film Center is ADA accessible. This presentation will be projected without open captions. The theater is hearing-loop equipped. For accessibility requests, please email filmcenter@saic.edu