Last night’s Open Screening for Students & Independents attracted a near-capacity crowd for over two-and-a-half hours of films! The 30+ shorts encompassed a full range of animation techniques: from the trippy post-psychedelia of David Normal’s Pyramid, to the measured, Magritte-esque pixellation of Michael Langan’s Doxology, to the fiendishly executed CGI of Breaking the Rig; from the classically-rendered, Disneyesque How to Avoid the Slaughterhouse (by Sabrina Cecchini) to the ’60s-Saturday-morning-homage Lightning Strikes… Out! (by the Sikoryak Bros.) to the rude ‘n’ crude ‘n’ proud-of-it Oddballs by Guillermo Gomez and Co.

We’ve got pictures, interviews and more in store (but first we have to decipher the scribbles we made in the dark). Keep riding the CableCartoon for a complete rundown of the films and filmmakers over the next few weeks.