John Akre, Animator

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

Here are my animated shorts from 2018:

Polly/Dolly

Screenings: Windy City Film Festival (Chicago), Dancing Spider Film Festival (Luverne, MN), New Ulm Film Festival, Montana International Film Festival, Big Water Film Festival

Migraine MyGroan MyGain

Screenings: Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, Deptford AnimDocs Festival and Symposium (London), Altered Esthetics Film Festival, St. Cloud Film Festival

Time of Transfigured Hats

Screenings: CAVE3

Warhols Empire Pill Box

Screenings: MNKino 55, CAVE 3

Derby, the Go-Go Ten Gallon Meets Stan Brakhage

Screenings: Hellavision 4, CAVE 3

Is Community Still Possible? Franklin Open Streets

A Community Media Kit Show

Screenings: MinnAnimate 7, Community Underground Film Festival 2019 (Philadelphia, PA), University Film and Video Association Convention, Square Lake Film Festival 2019, BLOW UP: International Art House Film Fest (Chicago), Better Cities Film Festival 2020

Perception Picnic

Screenings: MNKino Composer Fest, Animation Marathon (Athens, Greece), Athens Animfest 2019, Sound of Silent Film Festival 2019(Chicago), Brainwash Film Festival 2019, Square Lake Film Festival 2019

Provincetown Film Festival 2018 trailer

Wayne Newton: The Motion Picture (created in 1986; soundtrack added in 2018)

Adelbert Humphrey's Wealth of Nations

Screenings: MNKINO

Gravity, Our Frenemy

Screenings: AE Film Festival, Vidlings and Tape Heads Film Festival, Square Lake Film Festival, Planet 9 Film Festival, Highway 61 Film Festival, Midwest Weirdfest, Brainwash Film Festival 2019, Montreal International Animation Festival 2019