Rush Process celebrates DIY, handcrafted animation as a vehicle for self-expression. We screen highly personal animation made with physical media, spanning a wide variety of genres, including narrative, documentary, essay, and experimental.
We are the only full-scale animation festival in the state of Texas, and the only animation festival in the US explicitly dedicated to handcrafted animation, a materials-focused practice at the intersection of DIY, auteur-driven cinema and analog animation art.
We welcome submissions made using any non-digital technique, including stop motion, paper cut-out, multiplane, ink & paint on paper, charcoal, chalk, paint- and sand-on-glass, analog rotoscoping, and direct animation on celluloid.
A parallel goal of the festival is to provide our audiences with the opportunity to create animation themselves, via popup animation stations, workshops and collaborative, time-based production challenges.
Our 2018 festival is co-presented and hosted by Aurora Picture Show, a non-profit media arts center that presents artist-made, non-commercial film and video, currently celebrating 20 years of radical film programming in Houston, TX.
RP has juried awards in the Documentary and Narrative categories, and an Audience Award decided upon by festival attendees.