James Trainor is an American

experimental film Experimental film or avant-garde cinema is a mode of filmmaking that does not apply standard cinematic conventions, instead adopting Non-narrative film, non-narrative forms or alternatives to traditional narratives or methods of working. Many e ...

maker and

animator An animator is an artist who creates images, known as frames, which give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, and video games. Animat ...

. He is known for his 1999 short animated film '' The Bats'', which won an Honorable Mention in the

Sundance Film Festival The Sundance Film Festival is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with 423,234 combined in-person and online viewership in 2023. The festival has acted ...

's Short Filmmaking category in 2000. His other films include ''The Fetishist'' (1997) and ''The Moschops'' (2000). He is an associate professor at the

School of the Art Institute of Chicago The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a Private university, private art school associated with the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) in Chicago, Illinois. Tracing its history to an art students' cooperative founded in 1866, which gr ...

(SAIC), where he has taught since 2000.

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* Living people American experimental filmmakers American animators Columbia University alumni School of the Art Institute of Chicago faculty Year of birth missing (living people) {{Animator-stub