My friend Nobuaki translated my Basic Animation Aesthetics essay into Japanese. See it here:

Nobu has also recently translated PSS into Japanese for submission to Hiroshima, which I heard is an amazing festival.

Some months ago I disappointed some jury members because I wasn’t a Japanese schoolgirl. They kind of expected after seeing the film for some reason. I found the comparison very weird. Or maybe they were fetishists for that kind of thing…

My friend Rob Seidel is curating this show in Seoul with some of my work, if you’re there check it out!

Date:  2009.11.01 – 2009.11.30
Venue: COMO (SKT-Tower, Seoul) and Open Theatre (Tomorrow City
Echo Plaza, Incheon)
Entrance Fee: free
Organization: art center nabi, SK Telecom
Program Partner: Goethe-Institute Seoul, Robert Seidel

Artists: Julian Rosefeldt, Yves Netzhammer, Carsten Nicolai,
Bjørn Melhus, Zeitguised, Philipp Hirsch, David OReilly, Max
Hattler, Volker Schreiner, Daniel Burkhardt, Christiane Wöhler,
Julia Oschatz, Thorsten Fleisch, Astrid Rieger, Niklas Goldbach,
Barbara Hlali, Timo Katz, Robert Seidel and Jan Verbeek

The programme “Dreaming with Open Eyes” shows 19 different
positions of artists mostly working in Germany. Their short
films are little poems with a dream-like quality that is freed
from our everyday life. They are arranged like the stages of
an ambivalent dream: oscillating between an infantile playfulness,
the strength of a heterotopic, repetitive architecture,
dreamscapes embedded in a romanticized nature or nightmarish
states showing the collapse of humanity and science. And each of
these very unique moments holds the promise to be watched again,
while a dream is lost in its pure linearity after we wake up…

Detailed Information:
http://www.nabi.or.kr/english/project/coming_read.nab?list_num=1&idx=311&
http://www.robertseidel.com

I’m getting worse at updating this blog!

Please Say Something has picked up more awards, it’s had an incredible run, especially considering I didn’t know festivals existed until last year…! as I mentioned before I kind of got shy about mentioning them all. I know what’s it’s like to not win anything, and to receive countless rejection letters, and since most of the people reading this are probably fellow animators it didn’t feel right.

It got to a point a month or so ago when I decided to not enter it into the Oscars this year (it’s automatically eligible since the Berlin award) for various reasons… edit: most of these reasons seem to be incomprehensible to some people, I’ll keep them to myself… ;)

I should thank you all for your support over the last year, I never expected to have such an audience. And of course to the juries who have voted for my film, its because of you that I can afford to keep working on these films for another stretch (ironically not from the commercial type jobs I did this year). I’ll make an effort to update this site more with what I’m up to, the next 12 months are going to be busy!