BURNT ENDominations

In 2025, we just happened to assemble some animated shorts in the right combination and opened up a portal to another world. A place where cats had wings, demonic miniatures could wield the power of a universe in a single blow, and girls could be girls. We inadvertently created a rift in the frontal cortex of someone's medulla oblongata, and we had to take a blood oath to never speak of it again.

Well… we broke that oath, and in exchange, had to sacrifice three programmers to the fiery pits of hell; two of them were made of clay, so it didn't turn out to be a huge loss. Now that we have danced with the devil, we return to tell more tales, melt more minds, and feast on the fears of unknowing. BURNT ENDominations is back, and ballsier than ever!!! We brought in guest curators Ashley Sengstaken, Robbie Ward, and Skinner to deliver you directly to a midnight mass from the forbidden side of the cartoon dial. Tune in. Trip out. And keep your hands and legs inside the vehicle at all times.

*Please note that the films are listed in alphabetical order, not in screening order.

DEMONI FEROX: NIGHT PEOPLE STOLE MY BABY 

USA, 2023

North American Premiere, 5 min

Director - Thomas J Yagodinski

Surreal nightmares haunt a young couple until late one stormy night, when they are visited by the Night People.

I HAVE A

UK, 2026

Texas Premiere, 5 min

Director - Rory Waudby-Tolley

A man lists the things he has.

MOTHER EARTH

USA, 2026

World Premiere, 17 min

Director - Jimmy ScreamerClauz

An alien race weaponizes humanity’s anger and fear, turning the people of Earth against one another until mankind destroys itself. But as the last humans fall, the invaders discover something their species has never known and cannot manufacture. A mother’s love.

SHOWGIRLS - THE DA DA EDIT

USA, 2026

Texas Premiere, 2 min

Director - Julia Chien

A lesbian rewrite of an already lesbian film. Rotoscoped with reverence.

TIMECROW & FRIENDS IN: PSYCHO PSALMS

USA, 2021

World Premiere, 15 min

Director - David Braun & Nicholas D'Agostino

The clock-headed Timecrow and his gang of 1940s D-List animated cartoon misfits had been all but forgotten to the sands of time, but after being sucked through a portal to into the postmodern hellscape of the internet age, they are about to get a whole new lease on life.

TOM THUMB

Russian Federation, 2023

Texas Premiere, 26 minutes

Directors - Nikolay Lichtenfeld & Ivan Kostiurin

Tom runs through forests and fields, chased by an Ogre and by the entire Small World around him. But the Small World itself fits inside the belly of a mantis that Tom is watching through a shard of green glass.