AQUACADE:

Aquacade is a short, experimental film inspired by hidden histories of underwater NYC. Beginning with the catalyst of Mayor LaGuardia’s prohibition of pinball machines and his media spectacle of sledgehammering them into the East River, Aquacade explores the stranger than fiction remnants of the city’s past underwater. The film combines multiple techniques in animation: blending stop motion, 2D, and 3D with archival footage and a fabricated miniature underwater world.

Animated and Directed by Caroline Voagen Nelson
Composer and Sound Mixer: Chris Burke
Assistant Fabricator: Christina Lafontaine
Assistant Scene Painter: Katya Meykson
Voice Over and Archival Footage provided by: WNYC Archive Collections/ NY City Municipal Archives.
Special thanks to LaGuardia & Wagner Archives & New York Public Radio

FESTIVALS / SCREENINGS:  

Callicoon Art Walk Animation Block Party, curated by Xeth Feinberg, Callicoon, NY
Between Memory & Fiction, Playground, Brooklyn, NY
SPARK Animation Festival, Vancouver, Canada
Anime’st Animation Festival, Bucharest, Romania
Florida Film Festival, Maitland, FL
Animasivo Festival de Animación Contemporánea, Mexico City, Mexico

Factual Animation Festival, London, UK
Panelist, Animation & Documentary, ANNY Best of Fest 2018, NY, NY
Artist Talk, MWP Art Museum, Utica, NY
Coney Island Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY

Supernova Outdoor Film Festival, Denver, CO

Best of DDA, Brooklyn, NY *Best Editing and Technical Effects

Animation Chico, Chico, CA