GIRLS NIGHT OUT
2025 · 3m · USA
Directed by Ashley Sengstaken
Genres: animation, experimental
Tones: absurdist, humorous, surreal
An animated short film that plunges the viewer into the chaos of a night out clubbing, rendered in a hyper-detailed digital collage style that is simultaneously girly and grotesque. The film captures the excitement, pressure, and surrealism of collective female social ritual.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Sengstaken took a year to build 3 minutes 28 seconds of handcrafted digital collage animation that treats the club night as a fever dream — this is debut filmmaking that knows exactly what it wants to be and has the craft to pull it off.
Three minutes and 28 seconds of girly-grotesque collage about clubbing. Vimeo Staff Pick. The hyperfeminine-aesthetic-against-itself framing is a real position. Short enough to deliver its pitch without overstaying. Might actually work.
Ashley Sengstaken's hyper-detailed digital collage weaponizes hyperfeminine club iconography against itself — Vimeo Staff Picks selection for a girly-grotesque three minutes that's celebratory and disquieting at once.
Festivals
- Fantastic Fest 2025
- Manchester Animation Festival 2025
- Atlanta Film Festival 2026