Gemini

Runtime: 6m 40s

Online Release Date: May 1, 2025

Synopsis: Sarah and her cats go about their separate lives. The cats have strange dreams about their desires, and Sarah develops an unshakable paranoia that something is wrong with them. Sarah's paranoia bleeds into her social life, and the dreams of her cats come true.

Awards:
Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival - Best Student Film

Full Screening List:
October, 2024
- Transfiguration International TV (Virtual)
- Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival (Baltimore, MD, USA)
- Open World Animation Festival (Allentown, PA, USA)
- Bucheon International Animation Festival (Bucheon, South Korea)
- Goa Short Film Festival (Goa, India)
November, 2024
- San Francisco Transgender Film Festival (San Francisco, CA, USA)
- CutOut Fest International Animation and Digital Arts Festival (CDMX, Mexico)
December, 2024
- BWater (Berlin, Germany)
- Malt Adult #31 (Chicago, IL, USA)
February 2025
- SlamDance Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
March 2025
- Living Skies Student Film Festival (Regina, SK, Canada)
- Sea Slug Animation Festival (Seattle, WA, USA)
- Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, MI, USA)
- AnimaVerso (Florianopolis, Brazil)
April 2025
- San Diego Underground Film Festival (San Diego, CA, USA)
May 2025
- Festival Angaelica (Pasadena, CA, USA)
- Mammoth Lakes Film Festival (Mammoth Lakes, CA, USA)

Storyboard:

Backgrounds:

Behind the Scenes / Screening Documentation:

Gemini at Malt Adult #31 in Chicago.

The dream of one cat is to walk into walls.

A cat steals a sip from a bowl of cereal.

A cat steps into frame on the windowsill.

A background begins to come together.

The living room sofa.

The windowsill from the opening scene.

Sarah's design starts to come into view.

A cat stares into Sarah's soul. (this is the first sequence I animated for the film)

Graphite impressions are left on my lightbox.

The completed stack of all the frames.

Thanks for looking! ♥ - Jamie