Evan Bode

Torn from their home by a hand in the sky, colorful entities seek freedom from a rigid binary in this short experimental animation.

Locked out of the school art room, a creative non-binary teen named Frog grapples with anxiety as they seek a new place to eat lunch. Imagination blurs with reality in this hybrid work of live action and animation about finding a place to belong.

A short animated documentary featuring archival recordings of the filmmaker's Volga-German Great-Great-Grandmother, Mary Frank Lind, in which she recalls key memories of childhood—her father's windmill, warm rains, wolf sightings, bone trading, and her passion for carpentry, which broke gender norms but was supported by her father.

Trapped in their frames and monitored by a menacing curator, two paintings long to escape from the art gallery's white walls. As the paintings lock eyes across the room, an unspoken connection between them sets the stage for revolution. With a distinctive blend of live-action and animation, this short film by Evan Bode employs surreal metaphor to explore ideas about power, resistance, queer identity, visibility, and liberation from constructed borders.

After a disagreement with her mom, 8-year-old Natalie runs away — all the way to her backyard, where she meets a family of rabbits and decides to move in with them. Songs are sung and friends are made in this sweet, funny short film about building trust, overcoming fear, and connecting across difference to make room for everyone.

A young artist in a dark dorm room takes anxieties out of their brain and into their hands.

A personal, poetic essay film exploring eye contact, social anxiety, and the nature of connection between self and other.

Formerly incarcerated writer Marvin Wade speaks personally about his 25 years in prison and the positive transformation he achieved in spite of, not because of, the criminal legal system around him.

A film-poem created for Counterclock Journal's 2023 Patchwork: Film x Poetry fellowship, featuring an original poem by Mackenzie Duan and animation by Evan Bode.

Unimpressed with her actors and running out of time, film director Ash turns to dark and powerful methods to get the perfect shot and finally finish her movie.

One day, timid Cecille dares to ask a coworker on a date. As the night progresses, she sets her beautiful and hungry self free.

A personal essay film about the nature of artistic creation and the responsibility that comes along with it.

A satire involving two obsessive characters, Lucy and Jude, and Lucy's best friend Liz. Themes involve cyclical patterns, toxic relationships, and loyalty.

Four college journalists begin to question everything when a bloody fairy tale, read around the campfire from a stolen journal, starts to come to life.

After getting bullied for being a weirdo on the school playground, Natalie turns to the rabbits under her shed for help processing her difficult feelings. Together with the bunnies and Harvey the Hawk, Natalie learns valuable lessons about embracing difference and celebrating what makes each of us unique.

An ambitious actress finds her way, and herself, on the road to building a character.

An animated tribute to the text of "If I Must Die," the final poem written by Palestinian writer, scholar, activist, and martyr Dr. Refaat Al-Areer.

Mary, an audacious fashion photographer, one day takes something that does not belong to her from a cemetery and experiences unnatural events afterward. She assumes that by returning the object to its original place, she can avoid these occurrences, but nothing goes as she imagined.

Lux searches for the eraser he needs to fix his drawing, but when his attempts to get his family's attention are ignored, he begins to disappear.

After her mother’s funeral, Wren returns to her childhood home for the first time in years. There she finds a ruined house, strange clues, and a dark presence among the trees.