Junk Dump Film Festival is currently accepting submissions for our 2026 short film program. Send in your submissions now and join us at the festival this summer! FilmFreeway link in bio.
📸 @seiamikimamoda
This year came together through film, print, and gathering 🎞️📚🚶♂️🚶♀️
From our fifth annual film festival with the @movingimagenyc , to our seventh print magazine edition, to a gallery opening and magazine launch party in Chicago with @pointblank.chi —this year was shaped by collaboration.
Endless gratitude to our artists and our Junk Dump team 🗑️❤️
Selected works from Junk Dump Magazine pop-up exhibition and release party, curated by Junk Dump team:
Eldon Stephan
Gone Golfing (Idle Hour Country Club)
Connor Totten
Portrait of You Looking at Me Looking at You
Reeves Beckley
Ballad of Dead Pixels
Rohen Jones
Untitled (R)
Samir Jones (L)
Zuzu Hill
you called my phone today
skiing on a september morning
crowd control
grid of the afterlife
OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!!
There are less than two weeks left until submissions for our upcoming issue are due on October 8th! We are looking for any and all types of art- writing, painting, graphic design, drawing, multi-media… Submit through the form in our bio!
Featured artist in our upcoming issue: @eldonnstephan
“HELL IS REAL”
Eldon Stephen is a 20-year-old artist from Lexington, Kentucky, currently based in Chicago, where he studies Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!!
There are two weeks left until submissions for our upcoming issue are due on October 8th! We are looking for any and all types of art- writing, painting, graphic design, drawing, multi-media… Submit through the form in our bio!
Featured artist in our upcoming issue: @rohenjones
“Andy’s Ex Wife”
Rohen Jones is a 20-year-old artist from Charleston, West Virginia, currently based in Chicago, where he studies Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Rajas & the Wolf Girl won Best Animation at the Junk Dump Film Festival! We share this award with Lucia AKA the Wolf Girl and her incredible puppeteering #animationstudio #filmfest #puppetanimation
That’s a wrap on the Fifth Annual Junk Dump Film Festival. Thank you everyone for coming!
Thank you to the Museum of the Moving Image for hosting us, our amazing team, hardworking interns, thoughtful judges, brilliant filmmakers, and everyone who showed up and supported.
Five years of celebrating artistic processes in short film 🎞️📼
New York City here we come! Rajas & the Wolf Girl is screening this Sunday at the very cool Museum of the Moving Image for the Junk Dump Magazine film festival. We’re excited to be selected as part of the junk! #filmfestival #newyorkfilm #animatedshortfilm
Join us this weekend (July 26 & 27) at @movingimagenyc for the fifth annual Junk Dump Film Festival.
Featuring: Wipe Your Tears on My Ears by @imogengraham.animation (🥇Best in 2D Animation, JDFF 2023)
We are excited to announce the official selection for Junk Dump Film Festival 2025.
In 1950s Ponce, Puerto Rico, Zoraida dreams of becoming a bolerista singer while navigating a repressive political climate and the control of her machista brothers. As the island transforms over the years, so do her dreams.
“VOY SOÑANDO” will screen on day one of the festival’s programming on July 27 at 1:00pm at the Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY.
