Long reads on the craft of making animated films for academic, scientific, and cultural institutions — alongside news of where the films travel: screenings, ceremonies, residencies, and talks. Written by the people who do the work, for the people who commission it.
Our film for Voice of the People (Otzera) was presented at a President's Residence event, as part of an initiative in the Jewish philanthropic world.
There's a particular moment, early in every project we take on, when we ask the client for the source material, and discover what we're actually being asked to animate. This is about how we handle it.
Library music vs original score. Why the difference is the difference between a film that's good and a film that's remembered. Eitan Shefer is on every project from the script stage forward.
On matching a film's physical medium to the material its subject is made of. Why we made Daniel Jütte's film in glass and Abidemi Babalola's film in beads. The pattern that has become how we think.