Junk Dump Film Festival 2026: Day Two

About this event

Museum of the Moving Image and Junk Dump Magazine will present Junk Dump’s sixth annual short film festival. Junk Dump Magazine is a not-for-profit arts organization that produces a semi-annual print publication and events like Junk Dump Film Festival, which highlights emerging and underrepresented filmmakers working at the intersection of video art and storytelling. The festival presents a curated program of narrative, animated, and experimental short films made by artists using unique processes to tell singular and engaging stories. This year’s selection was guest judged and curated by two New York–based filmmakers. Caroline Mariko Stucky (she/they) is an award-winning Swiss-Japanese cinematographer, and the founder and creative director of CM8 Productions, a film and video production company specializing in independent films, music videos, and fashion films. Sidney Rose White is a Texas-born actress, model, and illustrator based in New York City. She can be seen in Wes and Kyra, HULU’s Red Is the Color of Beauty, Awesome, and Schon! Magazine’s Sheltering with You. Day Two programming will include a selection of nine experimental and animated shorts. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers. Screening run time approx. 80 mins. Featuring: Through the Fog Dir. William Bishop. 2026, 8 mins. U.S. Littlefish Dir. Yuhyeon Byun. 2025, 9 mins. Czechia/U.S. A young woman relies on a magical rybička with the ability to answer any question to navigate her unresolved feelings for a man she once shared an intense connection with. The Frame Dir. Caroline Johnson. 2025, 3 mins. U.S. How do you depict the undepictable? The frame: a container. a boundary. a moment. Is it a unit of time or space—or of both? The existence of a frame necessarily implies something within, and consequently something outside. The Frame is an exploration of spatial and temporal boundaries through the lens of paintings of the late Renaissance, when artists wrestled with how…