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Evan Bode

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26, any pronouns ✨ filmmaker / experimental animator / composer / artist-teacher
also: @evanbode.art
@a.spot.for.frog @teens_with_a_movie_camera

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blessed to share that Prison and Time is a Vimeo Staff Pick! 😭🙏 you can now watch our 7-minute short film for free online by visiting the staff picks home page.

one of the carceral system’s many harms is the invisibility of those harms, as it disappears human beings from the eyes of the outside world and commits abuses in silence.

Marvin’s personal telling of his own lived experience as an incarceration survivor represents a powerful reclaiming of visibility and personhood, in defiance of an unjust system that tries to erase both.

i’m honored that my animation is able to contribute to that visibility, in collaboration with Marvin and Project Mend.

thank you also to the curators at Vimeo, the producers of NYT Op-Docs, and every festival who has screened our work for sharing in that purpose too, by uplifting our very small, two-person collaboration and sharing Marvin’s message to be heard by many more people!

@truespiritualactivist @vimeo @vimeostaffpicks @nytopinion @mend_syracuse @112233pb @suartsciences @su_film_program @su_vpa @syracuse.ehn #vimeostaffpick by @evanbode

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Today, Marvin Wade and I are blessed to share our short film “Prison and Time” through NYT Op-Docs—bringing Marvin’s deeply important voice, words, & story to an audience so big it is hard to wrap my head around. This morning, we’re already floored by the outpouring of beautiful messages in the article’s comment section. Thank you to everyone for the support, belief, & encouragement along the way that made this work possible ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 by @evanbode

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a simple ten seconds about time, from an hour or so spent animating today (when focusing, i’m never sure how many minutes have passed) 🕥🕐🕜🕞

the ripping paper was not planned until it started happening naturally — a beautiful surprise, made possible only by working with physical material !

ultimately this brief moment will become integrated in a larger piece, commissioned by @mend_syracuse around a powerful personal essay on Time & Prison by Marvin Wade @truespiritualactivist . (I’ve been working on that film for a few months now and can’t wait for us to share once finished !)

#behindthescenes #animation #experimentalanimation #animator #time #freedom #sneakpeek by @evanbode

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Take a look behind the scenes at the process of animation behind “Prison and Time,” an award-winning Project Mend Production written / narrated by Marvin Wade @truespiritualactivist and animated by Evan Bode.

In the film, Marvin shares his message to young people while reflecting on his 25 years of incarceration and the positive change he achieved not because of prison, but in spite of its insidious harms working against him at every turn. Marvin advocates the befriending of time as a path toward hope and healing.

In its first few months on the festival circuit, Prison and Time is proud to be an official selection of:
•Justice Film Festival @justicefilmfestival (NYC)
•Wide Open Experimental Film Festival @woefilmfest (OKC)
•ATL Doc (Atlanta)
•New Jersey International Film Festival (NJ)
•FOLCS International Short Film Competition (NYC)
•MicroActs Artist Film Screening @microacts (U.K.)
• and an Audience Award Winner at Pebbles Underground Film & Video Art festival @pebblesunderground

You can watch “Prison and Time” online by visiting project-mend.net, or on Evan’s website at evanbode.net/project-mend.

#behindthescenes #animation #projectmend by @evanbode

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7 months ago

Summer of magic with @teens_with_a_movie_camera 🎬👁️✨💜 this July it was once again a joy & privilege to co-create an open space of imagination, together with youth in Syracuse. not teaching but collaborating—experimenting in an artistic laboratory full of freedom, and learning from & alongside each other in a process of playfulness taken in Syracuse University by @evanbode

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For three weeks this summer, Teens with a Movie Camera worked with “Curious Creatures” in a creative community collaboration. Looking to Maya Deren’s filmmaking philosophy as a guide, we embraced the “freedom of amateurs” to make art without fear—experimenting with sound & image in a unique artistic laboratory of collective creativity.

3-minute teaser trailer edited by @evanbode // Footage & sounds by the TwMC collective 👁️🪐🎬✨ taken in Syracuse, New York by @evanbode

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Read all about our exhibition “Visions of Hope” in SU’s student newspaper, The Daily Orange! @dailyorange

Background: art by gallery visitors of all ages drawn on our community table, where a bowl of markers invites visitors to sit, draw, dream, and leave their mark, contributing to a collective work of art.

Bring your own drawings to the table when you visit @artragegallery during open hours! (Wed-Fri 2-6 pm, or Sat 12-4 pm) ✨ taken in ArtRage Gallery by @evanbode

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7 months ago

This could be you, if you come to see our show VISIONS OF HOPE at @artragegallery — which is still up this week & next, through March 21!

Footage by @shokoofeh_jabbari & @evanbode

Open Hours:
Wed, Thurs, Fri: 2-6pm
Saturday: 12-4pm

VISIONS OF HOPE:
An interactive installation celebrating movies made in collaboration with local teens during the past 2 years and 4 editions of @teens_with_a_movie_camera

Concept / Program Organizers: Mišo Suchý, Lida Suchy, Evan Bode
Exhibition Curator: Evan Bode @evanbode
Installation Designer: Oksana Kazmina @okazmina
Creative Assistance: Shokoofeh Jabbari @shokoofeh_jabbari
ArtRage Gallery Directors: Kimberley McCoy & Ellis Clay

THANK YOU to our Supporters:
@cnycf @su_humanities_center @syracuse.ehn @cnyarts @syracusenslc @su_film_program @su_vpa @lightworkorg @urban_video_project taken in ArtRage Gallery by @evanbode

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In the warm, enchanted sanctuary of “Visions of Hope” at @artragegallery , we invite you to reimagine reality as young filmmakers do: oranges become rocket fuel, eggs become astronauts, and an ordinary backyard tent becomes a levitating spaceship, alive with moving images. The world is yours to shape, mold, and change!

Feb -March 21 2026

Visiting Hours:
Wed- Fri 2-6pm
Sat. 12-4pm taken in ArtRage Gallery by @evanbode

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What a first day! Thank you to the filmmakers who were there, the students who made everyone comfortable, and all who attended to see these amazing films.
Today, we have Program 3: You Are Here at 4pm, followed by the panel discussion Real Film Education, and final Program 4: Creation Plays Itself at 7pm
All at OKCMOA @okcmoa
All FREE
(These are just a few images from today— we’ll share more, including excerpts of the panel discussion! These photos by Julieann Coraccio. BFA Film Production ‘27 @julieann_captures @julieaccio )
WOEFF is presented by Oklahoma City University Film Department by @evanbode

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6 months ago

Learn more about the films of Program 2: Experience Tells Us, including an introductory essay by Sophie Barroso
Program 2 is Friday, April 24 at 8:30 at OKCMOA. Free Admission
Stay tuned all week to learn more about each program— and keep an eye on this space later in April to see more essays and interviews by the students of Avant-Garde Film Culture & Practice!
WOEFF is presented by the Oklahoma City University Film Department by @evanbode

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Look at all these wonderful filmmakers! WOEFF 2026 has been amazing, and we’ve got one more day! by @evanbode

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