Evan Bode Trailers
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Evan Bode is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, composer, and animator who challenges borders and binaries with a playful mix of mediums. Their work has been screened internationally at festivals in Brazil, Germany, Greece, Croatia, the U.K., Australia, India, and South Africa, as well as in festivals across the United States. Evan graduated with honors from Colorado State University in 2020 with a B.A. in Communication Studies and minors in Sociology, English, and Film Studies. In 2023, they graduated from Syracuse University with an MFA in Film.
Evan's first film, Thine Own Self, has screened at festivals around the world including Animafest Zagreb. In 2021, Evan was one of five filmmakers selected as a winner of the Gotham Institute’s 2021 Student Showcase sponsored by JetBlue and Focus Features, a success featured in Filmmaker Magazine. Their second film, A Spot for Frog, was met with similar acclaim, including a "Director's Choice Award" at Thomas Edison Film Festival and a screening at Outfest L.A. in 2023.
Most Popular Evan Bode Trailers
Total trailers found: 17
30 March 2024
After getting bullied for being a weirdo on the school playground, Natalie turns to the rabbits under her shed for help processing her difficult feelings.
01 June 2022
Locked out of the school art room, a creative non-binary teen named Frog grapples with anxiety as they seek a new place to eat lunch.
28 May 2021
After a disagreement with her mom, 8-year-old Natalie runs away — all the way to her backyard, where she meets a family of rabbits and decides to move in with them.
30 June 2023
A short animated documentary featuring archival recordings of the filmmaker's Volga-German Great-Great-Grandmother, Mary Frank Lind, in which she recalls key memories of childhood—her father's windmill, warm rains, wolf sightings, bone trading, and her passion for carpentry, which broke gender norms but was supported by her father.
19 October 2023
A film-poem created for Counterclock Journal's 2023 Patchwork: Film x Poetry fellowship, featuring an original poem by Mackenzie Duan and animation by Evan Bode.
04 May 2023
Trapped in their frames and monitored by a menacing curator, two paintings long to escape from the art gallery's white walls.
13 November 2025
Formerly incarcerated writer Marvin Wade speaks personally about his 25 years in prison and the positive transformation he achieved in spite of, not because of, the criminal legal system around him.
02 June 2021
A young artist in a dark dorm room takes anxieties out of their brain and into their hands.
01 December 2023
Unimpressed with her actors and running out of time, film director Ash turns to dark and powerful methods to get the perfect shot and finally finish her movie.
15 December 2020
A personal, poetic essay film exploring eye contact, social anxiety, and the nature of connection between self and other.
26 April 2024
One day, timid Cecille dares to ask a coworker on a date. As the night progresses, she sets her beautiful and hungry self free.
07 June 2022
Torn from their home by a hand in the sky, colorful entities seek freedom from a rigid binary in this short experimental animation.
15 December 2020
A personal essay film about the nature of artistic creation and the responsibility that comes along with it.
12 June 2024
An animated tribute to the text of "If I Must Die," the final poem written by Palestinian writer, scholar, activist, and martyr Dr.
01 December 2024
Four college journalists begin to question everything when a bloody fairy tale, read around the campfire from a stolen journal, starts to come to life.
10 October 2024
An ambitious actress finds her way, and herself, on the road to building a character.
08 May 2024
Mary, an audacious fashion photographer, one day takes something that does not belong to her from a cemetery and experiences unnatural events afterward.
