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In Process is a cinéSPEAK event series that offers intimate screenings featuring acclaimed local filmmakers. In Process is an opportunity for makers and audiences to delve deep into their craft through dialogue and screening works-in-progress. These salon-style events are designed to inspire and educate both emerging and experienced makers by engaging in hands-on learning, collaboration, and experimentation.
The Philadelphia Animation Ensemble is an open collective of animators with vastly different techniques and styles who come together to play collaborative games and delight in experimental moving image.
**EVENT FLOW:
DOORS @ 4:30PM
CONVERSATION & SCREENING @ 5:00PM
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**TICKETS**
$5-$15 Sliding Scale
Please pay as you’re able; No one turned away for lack of funds. Advanced registration is recommended as seating is limited and first come, first served.
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About the Featured Artists:
Amy Lee Ketchum
Amy Lee Ketchum is a Chinese American artist and animator based in Philadelphia. She creates poetic narratives and tactile worlds in her animations which draw from personal and collective memory, metaphysical narratives, and dance. Amy teaches at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where she is the Chair of Animation. She is also a member of the artist collective Tiger Strikes Asteroid and a founding member of the Philadelphia Animation Ensemble.
Cybee
Cybee is an animator, storyteller, and ecologist living in the Grays Ferry neighborhood of Philadelphia. Their work is collaborative, surreal, and often pedagogical in nature, employing a range of digital and analogue techniques. Currently, they are using animation to share stories of collective struggles against displacement and to celebrate and deepen relationships to land.
Maisie O’Brien
Maisie is a Philadelphia-based shadow caster and educator. They have toured and practiced their original storytelling with communities including Studio 34, Black Cherry Puppet Theater, The Baltimore Crankie Festival, and Asian Arts Initiative, as well as developed shadows for collaborations with fellow artists in film, dance, music, and theater. She also works to foster young voices via puppetry and narrative arts workshops, summer camps, and festivals.
About the Films:
Lanterns presented by Amy Lee Ketchum
Lanterns is an experimental stop-animation that explores the connection between invasive species and xenophobia. By overlaying the history of the China trade with imagery of lanternfly squashing campaigns, the film foregrounds the irony of simultaneous fetishization and othering of non-Western cultures.
The Word for World presented by Cybee
The Word for World is a short poetic animation illustrating the stories of 6 land-defenders in Philadelphia and movements they are a part of. Deeply collaborative in nature – the project began with a community storytelling workshop, in which activists wove together, learned from, and celebrated each other's stories to generate a short script. The script is now being animated by 6 animators of various styles and mediums to create an exquisite-corpse-style animation.
The Artist presented by Maisie O’Brien
The Artist is an original short story about making mistakes and healing in better communication with the world, told through illuminated crankie theater (scrolling panoramic art), shadow puppetry, and song.
About the Venue:
Making Worlds Cooperative Bookstore & Social Center is a nonprofit cooperative bookstore and social center that promotes collective knowledge, skills, and visions of liberation from our communities.
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Accessibility: Making Worlds is an ADA-accessible space on the ground floor. The event setup is flexible and can accommodate a variety of needs. The bathroom is also ADA accessible with transfer rails (note: the door is not automatic). This is not a scent-free space. Please contact us with any questions or requests for specific accommodations.
Parking/Transportation: Street parking is available but somewhat limited. Making Worlds is a short distance from the 34 Trolley 45th street stop and the MFL 46th street stop, and near several bus lines.
COVID Safety:
Masking is encouraged. If you feel unwell or have had a known COVID exposure in the last 5 days, please test, mask, and/or stay home.
Email us with any questions at info@cinespeak.org.
ABOUT CINÉSPEAK:
cinéSPEAK is a Philadelphia-based arthouse cinema and journal that cultivates experiences and opportunities for filmmakers and moviegoers, celebrating and strengthening local community and global movements for collective liberation.
Our multidisciplinary work directly supports emerging artists, filmmakers, and writers through screenings, salons, and cultural reporting—all of which center the stories from those historically excluded in the film and media industry. We bring independent films to new audiences, partnering with community organizations to create a more equitable and nourishing cinema ecosystem.