Sunday, March 8, 2026 at 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles
Los Angeles Filmforum presents *Femme Grotesquerie!* In person: Jenny Nirgends and curator Sam Gurry. Full film lineup and notes at: https://www.lafilmforum.org/schedule/ ∆ *Desires that curdle. / Ambitions that molt. / Girlhood morphed into menace, myth, and power.* *Femme Grotesquerie* is a collection of ten contemporary experimental animation short films showcasing femininity as something unruly, excessive, and emboldened. Featuring a variety of mediums including direct animation, stop motion, and digital 2D, these films depict worlds lived, imagined, subverted, or reclaimed. Here, femininity is not decorative or contained but pushed to its edges: raw, acute, tender, funny, and volatile. From the animated porcelain puppets of *On Weary Wings Go By* to the glitter-bombed 16mm of *Moon Cycle (2023-2024)*, these films stage feminine aesthetics and narratives as something to be wielded, distorted, reclaimed, and reimagined on the animators’ own terms. Join us to delight in the animated image and that strange pleasure of watching light, rupture, and reform. Contemporary international animated films by Justine Lai, Alice Bloomfield, Anu-Laura Tuttelberg, Amy Lockhart, Victoria Vincent, Sofia Carillo, Sophie Koko Gate, Jenny Jokela, Louise Flaherty, and Jenny Nirgends. Notes and Program by Sam Gurry.