"Anadromous" (2025) - a a mixed media piece including 16mm film footage, stop motion, and 2D animation, following two fish who must leave their freshwater aquarium for freedom in the deepest depths of the ocean.
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View the gallery of stop motion puppets and sets here.
"...Bean bag chairs encouraged viewers to settle in to watch Ari Grubb’s short film 'Anadromous', a stop motion and mixed media animation that involves a meet-cute between two fish, an escape from an aquarium, and a colorful cast of sea creature puppets. Having struggled with queer identity growing up, “I repeatedly return to the themes of confinement versus freedom, repression versus expression, and self-doubt versus self-acceptance,” Grubb writes. And nothing says freedom like a salmon and a smelt roller-skating their way to an on-stage disco party, the finale of Grubb’s film." - Tufts Now
"...explores freedom and justice with exuberant materiality." -Hyperallergic
For more information, please contact Ari Grubb.