Snake and Butterfly are neighbors. Covetous Butterfly wants something from his serpentine compatriot, but what? Juxtaposing charming animation with deft, unusual narrative construction, the climax of the story takes place entirely in the viewer’s head.
Section: Animated Shorts Competition
Premiere Status: World Premiere
Country: United States
Language: none
Year: 2016
Runtime: 3min
Becky James AB '07 uses humor, violence, and fragmentation to explore the fringes of narrative. She has exhibited animation both in galleries and at film festivals including SXSW, Slamdance, Sidewalk, Rooftop Films, Animation Block Party and IFF Rotterdam. A native New Yorker, James graduated from Harvard in 2007 and received her MFA from Bard in 2014.
Read the SXSW interview with Becky here.
Additional Showtimes
⋆ Monday, March 14
11:00AM - 12:32PM
Topfer Theatre at ZACH
⋆ Thursday, March 17
7:45PM - 9:17PM
Alamo Lamar B