“The Most Overhyped Human Emotion”: Signe Baumane on My Love Affair With Marriage
Signe Baumane calls romantic love, “the most overhyped human emotion.” Her latest film, My Love Affair With Marriage, also concerns itself with love, but takes…
Tag: animation
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: A Meditation on Murakami
Inspired by Haruki Murakami's short stories, Pierre Földes’ debut feature animation film, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, is surreal, melancholic, dr…
FRONTRUNNER Meets Filmmaker Milorad Krstic
Name an art form, and Milorad Krstic will have studied and mastered it. He is a Slovenian painter, film director, visual artist, sculptor, author, illustrator,…
Khai Dreams Gives FRONTRUNNER Good Advice
Do you ever feel like life is a movie and we’re all just trying to find the perfect song for the important moments? Khai Dreams’…
Blackheads: A New Film by Emily Ann Hoffman
Emily Ann Hoffmann introduces her stop-motion animated film 'Blackheads', which made its digital premiere on MailChimp Presents SXSW 2020 Shorts.
Katie Armstrong at The Armory Show (and Beyond)
Katie Armstrong is a multi-disciplinary animator who hand-paints frames, writes poetry, sings songs, and plays the music which all comprise her video …
Renaissance Reimagined, Reignited: Negin Sharifzadeh
Negin Sharifzadeh's works challenge the eternal Feminine in the history of Renaissance art, reinterpreting Middle Eastern histories.
Gogol’s ‘The Overcoat’: Reimagined
Nikolai Gogol's classic short story, "The Overcoat," is retold in a visually stunning film of the same name. In a story that takes the classic proverb…
Interview with Filmmaker Peter Peake on Take Rabbit
Most of us have heard the classic riddle. A farmer needs to transport a fox, a rabbit, and a cabbage across a river, but only…
Emily Ann Hoffman on her Stop-Motion Sensation NEVADA
In this stop-motion feature, one woman and one man, both made of clay, contemplate the consequences that come out of the choices we make out of life.