Orbit is a phonotrope project about the relationship between humanity and the sun. It consists of:

- a 7 minute short film,
- an interactive installation,
- a flexi disc,
- and a print series with associated animations.

The short film had its festival premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in January 2019 (the film is being distributed by Bonobostudio). The interactive installation was presented at WORM UBIK in Rotterdam in April 2018. January 2019 also saw the launch of the ORBIT flexi disc, a playable and filmable record with the film’s soundtrack and one of its phonotrope designs. A series of monotypes incorporating the orbit designs was produced on an artist residency at the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, California in January 2019. Some of these prints were re-animated, creating videos that can be displayed alongside the prints themselves. Four of these prints + animations are in the collection of the Kala Art Institute Gallery.

Here you can see images and videos related to each iteration of the project, including a trailer for the short film, a documentation video of the flexi, a documentation video of the installation (more pictures and info about the exhibition, for which Tess was project leader, here) and an excerpt from one of the animated print videos. To purchase a flexi disc, email tess@tessmartinart.com. To inquire about purchasing the prints/videos, contact the Kala Gallery.

Short film info:

Logline:
Spinning drawings guide us along the flow of energy through our planet, and let us ponder our place in the natural cycle.

Synopsis:

The sun’s energy circulates throughout the earth, feeding the cycle of life. Everything is connected in a natural loop, which repeats, like the circular discs of magical optical toys. This perfectly balanced rhythm is disrupted by human excess, throwing the cycle out of orbit and temporarily stopping the circulation of energy in nature. 

Credits:
Film by Tess Martin
Music by Jason Staczek
Camera by Matija Pekic

Made possible by:
Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie
Rooftop Films
Centrum voor Beeldende Kunst
Gemeente Rotterdam
I-Park Foundation
Djerassi Resident Artist Program

FESTIVALS:

Festival Tous Courts, Aix-en-Provence, France, Dec 3-7, 2019
Animasivo Animation Festival, Mexico City, Mexico, Nov 27-Dec 1, 2019
Exground Film Fest, Wiesbaden, Germany, Nov 15-24, 2019
Sound Unseen, Minneapolis, MN, Nov 12-17, 2019
Zinebi International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, Spain, Nov 8-15, 2019
CRAFT International Animation Festival, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Oct 28-Nov 2, 2019
Milwaukee Film Festival, WI, Oct 18-31, 2019
Animafilm Baku International Animation Festival, Azerbaijan, Oct 18-20, 2019
Shnit Worldwide Film Festival, Bern, Switzerland, Oct 17-27, 2019
Nice Short Film Festival, France, Oct 11-18, 2019
Drunken Film Festival, Oakland, CA, Oct 9, 2019
Anim’est Bucharest International Animation Festival, Romania (International Short Competition), Oct 4-13, 2019
KloosterKino, Nijmegen, Oct 5, 2019
Animatou, Geneva, Switzerland, Oct 4-12, 2019
Netherlands Film Festival, Utrecht, Sept 27-Oct 5, 2019
Animation Block Party, Brooklyn, NY, Sept 21, 2019
Message to Man International Film Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia, Sept 18, 2019
PIAFF, Paris International Animation Film Festival, France, Sept 17-23, 2019
Squeaky Wheel Animation Festival, Buffalo, NY, Sept 6, 2019
Linoleum Festival of Contemporary Animation and Media Art, Kiev, Ukraine, Sept 4-8, 2019
Animanima International Animation Festival, Cacak, Serbia, Sept 4-7, 2019
Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, Brazil, Aug 30-Sept 8, 2019
Odense International Film Festival, Denmark, Aug 26-Sept 1, 2019
AricaDoc, Arica, Chile, Aug 26-31, 2019
ORBIT short film and installation at Turku Animation Film Festival, Finland, Aug 21-25, 2019
Pleinbioscoop (Open Air Cinema), Rotterdam, Aug 11, 2019
Aggregated Animated Shorts, Oakland, CA, Aug 2-31, 2019 - WINNER, Best Technique Audience Choice and Narrative Jury’s Choice Award
Insomnia International Open-Air Animation Film Festival, Kaluga, Russia, July 18-22, 2019
Anibar International Animation Festival, Peja, Kosovo, July 20, 2019
Animations on the Big Screen, Artscape, Baltimore, MD, USA, July 19-21, 2019
Anima Mundi International Animation Festival, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo, Brazil, July 17-28, 2019
Under the Radar, Vienna, Austria, July 1-5, 2019
Fest Anca International Animation Festival, Zilina, Slovakia, June 27-30, 2019
De Kortste Nacht - Het Beste van de Buren, Kort Film Festival Leuven, Belgium, June 21, 2019
Snake Alley Festival of Film, Burlington, IA, USA, June 20-23, 2019
Sardinia Film Festival, Italy, June 15, 2019 - WINNER, Best Video Art
Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle, WA, USA, May 27, 2019
Rotterdams Open Doek Festival, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, May 26, 2019
Rooftop Films Summer Series, New York, USA, May 17 + Aug 2, 2019
Anifilm International Festival of Animated Films, Trebon, Czech Republic, May 07-12, 2019
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Go Short presents: Best of Dutch Shorts, May 03, 2019
Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, NM, USA, April 16-20, 2019
Athens International Film and Video Festival, OH, USA, April 08-14, 2019
GoShort International Short Film Festival, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, April 03-07, 2019
Ann Arbor Film Festival, MI, USA, March 26-31, 2019
Tricky Women Animation Film Festival, Vienna, Austria, March 13-17, 2019
International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Netherlands, January 24, 2019 - WORLD PREMIERE

OTHER HONORS:
Finalist, Lions Films Award, Rotterdam, May 2019

I enjoy using different techniques that have a hand-made root or sensibility. In this reel you can see phonotropes (short film ORBIT), paper cut-outs (short film GINEVRA), paint-on-glass (commission for the documentary FIDDLER), sand animation (commission for the documentary BARZAN), tissue paper cut-outs (commission for museum videos), photo cut-outs (short film THE LOST MARINER).

More info on commissioned work can be found here.

Based on a poem by Percy Shelley, this film depicts the aftermath of a murder. But for Ginevra, death is merely transformation.

Credits:

Director: Tess Martin
Producer: Max Rothman
Composer & Sound Designer: Jeremy Lloyd-Styles
Narrator: Alexana Ryer

Backstory:

This short film is based on a poem called ‘The Dirge’ by Percy Shelley (not to be confused with another Shelley poem called A Dirge). Max Rothman at Monticello Park Productions brought this project to animation filmmaker Tess Martin. Upon further research Tess discovered that The Dirge is actually part of a longer, unfinished poem called Ginevra (read the full poem here).

In the book The Poems of Shelley: Volume Four 1820-1821 by Michael Rossington, Jack Donovan and Kelvin Everest, the authors speculate that the poem might have been inspired by a supposedly true story contained in a book that his wife Mary was reading at the time. The story is that of Ginevra degli Almieri, a Renaissance-era urban legend about a woman who was thought dead of a plague that swept the city of Florence in the year 1400, and was put in a vault to be buried the next day. But she then awakens and is mistaken for a ghost by both her husband and her parents. Unfortunately, Percy Shelley himself died an untimely death in 1822, and was not able to finish this poem. His wife Mary published just the last segment under the title ‘The Dirge’, as well as the rest of the unfinished poem under the title ‘Ginevra’, in 1824 after Percy’s death.

The animated film incorporates inspiration from the Ginevra backstory, as well as direct inspiration from the poem itself. It is created using primarily cream-colored paper cut-outs on a multi-plane animation stand, with lots of lights and colored filters.

Festivals:

Fronteiras, Ayamonte, Spain and Vila Real de Santo Antonio, Portugal, Oct 19-26, 2019
Sister Cities Animated, Baltimore, MD, USA, Feb 11, 2019
Festival of Time, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, January 4-6, 2019 - WINNER, Best Production Design
Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival, Worcester, MA, USA, Oct 20, 2018 - FINALIST, Best Animation & Best Overall Production
Ellensburg Film Festival, Ellensburg, WA, Oct 6-8, 2018
ANIMANIMA, Cacak, Serbia, Sept 4-8, 2018
Walla Walla Movie Crush, Walla Walla, WA, July 6-8, 2018
Snake Alley Festival of Film, Burlington, IA, June 20-23, 2018
GRRLS HAUS Cinema, WORM, Rotterdam, May 27, 2018
CineNoord, Rotterdam, May 18, 2018
Underexposed Film Festival yc, Rock Hill, SC, May 9-12, 2018
Northwest Fest, Edmonton, Canada, May 03-13, 2018
Riverside International Film Festival, Riverside, CA, April 17-22, 2018
Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, OH, USA, April 9-15, 2018
Black Maria Film Festival, NJ, USA, Feb 2018 – WINNER, Jury’s Citation Award
Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, NC, Nov 8-12, 2017
St. Louis International Film Festival, St. Louis, MO, Oct 30-Nov 12, 2017
Tallgrass Film Festival, Wichita, KS, Oct 18-22, 2017
Primanima, the World Festival of First Animations, Budaors, Hungary, Oct 18-21, 2017
KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Oct 17-22, 2017
Imagine Science Film Festival, New York, NY, Oct 13-20, 2017
StopTrik International Film Festival, Maribor, Slovenia, Oct 5-8, 2017
Seoul international Extreme-Short Image & Film Festival (SESIFF), South Korea, Sept 12-15, 2017
Moonrise Film Festival, Wells, BC, Aug 25-27, 2017
ANIMAZE, Montreal International Animated Film Festival, Canada, Aug 20, 2017
Atlanta Underground Film Festival, GA, Aug 18-20, 2017
Chain Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY, Aug 7-13, 2017
San Antonio Film Festival, San Antonio, TX, Aug 1-6, 2017
Animation Block Party, Brooklyn, NY, July 27-30, 2017 – WORLD PREMIERE

Exhibitions/Screenings/Other:

Alaska Airlines Seattle International Film Festival Channel inflight entertainment, July 2019
Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA, June 30-Oct 22, 2017, solo show

#GIFsmetHarry is a series of animated GIFs each based on a Dutch saying or expression and the scene in Harry Potter in which it occurs. The loops attempt to represent both the literal and intended meaning of the expression, as well as the scene in Harry Potter in which the saying appears, with surreal and humorous results. Representing the sayings in this way helps me to remember them as I read Harry Potter to learn Dutch. The scenes are created with paper on a multi-plane animation stand in my studio in Rotterdam.

Watch the behind the scenes video here: vimeo.com/246661365

More background info on the expressions and more making-of photos can be found on my Instagram account (@TessMartinArt) by searching the #GIFsmetHarry hashtag.

A starry night, tracks in the snow. A girl desperately pursues a creature into a desolate, surreal, white landscape.
This music video for the Australian band The Animators was created with painted plastic cut-outs and tissue paper and animated one frame at a time on a multi-plane animation stand.

SCREENINGS:

ReAnima International Animated Film Festival, Bergen, Norway, Sept 29-Oct 1, 2017
1 Reel Film Festival, Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA, Sept 1-3, 2017
Turku Animation Film Festival, Turku, Finland, Aug 23-27, 2017
Atlanta Underground Film Festival, GA, Aug 18-20, 2017
La Guarimba Film Festival, Amantea, Italy, Aug 7-11, 2017
Supertoon International Animation Festival, Sibenik, Croatia, July 17-21, 2017
Snake Alley Festival of Film, Burlington, IA, June 21-24, 2017
Skepto International Film Festival, Cagliari, Italy, May 12, 2017
Northwest Fest, Edmonton, Canada, May 5-14, 2017
Future Film Festival, Bologna, Italy, May 2-7, 2017
ANIFILM International Festival of Animated Films, Trebon, Czech Republic, May 2-7, 2017
Cartoons & Bloody Marys, Seattle, WA March 25, 2017
Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands, March 22-26, 2017
Black Maria Film Festival, NJ, USA & tour, Feb 2017 – WINNER, Director’s Choice Award
Cut Out Fest, International Animation and Digital Art Festival, Querétaro, Mexico, Nov 17-20, 2016
St. Louis International Film Festival, St. Louis, MO, USA, Nov 10, 2016
Chain Film Festival, NYC, USA, Aug 8-14, 2016 – WINNER, Best Musical Short

In September 2014 I worked on an animated music video for Seattle band Dark Hip Falls using ink, water and gum arabic solution. It uses the theme of Rorschach tests to interpret the restless and fast-paced lyrics in their song ‘Lam2: Red Hands’.

SCREENINGS:

So Bazaar Festival, Redmond, WA, Aug 22, 2019
ANIMATIC, Pamplona, Spain, Nov 15, 2017
Seattle Transmedia and Independent Film Festival, Seattle, WA, July 28-31, 2016
Supertoon, Sibenik, Croatia, July 24-29, 2016
Animation Attack!, Atlanta, GA, May 21, 2016
London Short Film Festival, London, UK, January 13, 2016
National Festival of Animated Film, Bruz, France, Dec 7-13, 2015
La Nuit de L’Anim, Rennes, France, Nov 26, 2015
St Louis International Film Festival, St Louis, MO, Nov 5-15, 2015
Faut qu’ca Bouge! competition, Fete du Cinema d’Animation, Paris, France, Oct 24, 2015
Anim’est International Animation Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania, Oct 2-11, 2015
AnimaSyros International Animation Festival, Syros, Greece, Sept 24-27, 2015
Ottawa International Animation Festival, Ottawa, Canada, Sept 16-20, 2015
Milan Film Festival, Milan, Italy, Sept 10-20, 2015
Skepto International Film Festival, Cagliari, Italy, April 14-18, 2015
Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht, the Netherlands, March 18-22, 2015
Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA, Sequestered Together: The Dangerous and Lonely World of Animation (group show), Feb 17-March 14, 2015
Animac International Film Festival of Animation, Lleida, Spain, Feb 19-22, 2015
ANIMATEKA, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Dec 8-14, 2014
zwergWERKchen, Oldenburg, Germany, Nov 30, 2014
Shift Sessions: Volume 1, Dark Hip Falls video launch, Seattle, WA, Nov 22, 2014

The Lost Mariner is an animated interpretation of Dr. Oliver Sacks’ case study found in his book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. It uses photographs to visualize the rare memory condition of patient Jimmie G.

Credits:

A film by Tess Martin, inspired by “The Lost Mariner” from “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” written by Dr. Oliver Sacks.  Supervising Producers – Warren Etheredge, Brad Hutchinson; Young Jimmie – Ruud Aarden; Old Jimmie – Hank Botwinik; Doctor – Kieran Dolan; Ray – Tjeerd Knoop; Voice of Ray – Jeff Hoyt; Film Shoot Camera – Thijs van Gasteren; Sound Design – Production House Media; Music – Jason Staczek. Created at AKV|St Joost, The Netherlands

SCREENINGS
Worlding the Brain Symposium, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Nov 2, 2017
Open Theater MeMeme, Anyang, South Korea, Sept 15-17, 2017
Hotel Eastlund, Lower Boom October Program, Portland, OR, Oct 5-31, 2016
Disposable Film Festival featured at Exploding Cinema, Cinema Museum, London, UK, Oct 1, 2016
Moonrise Film Festival, Wells, Canada, Aug 26-28, 2016
Psychology Animation: Animated Mind, Image Power, Renmin University Art Gallery, Beijing, China Aug 9-Sept 9, 2016
Shot in the Dark: hand-crafted animated shorts from around the world, Seattle, WA, USA, Aug 8, 2016
Black Maria Film Festival retrospective, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA, Aug 6, 2016
Animix, Tel-Aviv Animation Festival (The Animation Comics Caricature International Festival), Tel-Aviv, Israel, Aug 2-6, 2016
Animation Attack!, Atlanta, GA, May 21, 2016
Northwest Fest, Edmonton, Canada, May 8, 2016
Riverside International Film Festival, Riverside, CA, May 6, 2016
Future Film Festival, Bologna, Italy, May 6, 2016
Black Maria Film Festival retrospective, Anthology Film Archives, New York City, USA, April 28, 2016
Stop Motion Now: Handmade Animation in the Digital Age, Nijmegen, Netherlands, April 23, 2016
Disposable Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, April 7, 2016
Cartoons & Bloody Marys, Seattle Transmedia & Independent Film Festival, Seattle, WA, March 26, 2016
Richmond International Film Festival, Richmond, VA, March 3-6, 2016
Black Maria Film Festival, NJ, USA & tour, Feb 2016 – WINNER, Jury’s Choice Award, 2nd Prize
Animated Dreams, Tallinn, Estonia, Nov 18-22, 2015
Seattle Shorts Film Festival, Seattle, WA, Nov 14-15, 2015 – NOMINATED, BEST ANIMATION
CutOut Fest, Querétaro, Mexico, Nov 12-15, 2015
Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, NC, Nov 11-15, 2015
Underexposed Film Festival yc, Rock Hill, SC, Nov 4-7, 2015 – WINNER BEST ANIMATED FILM
INVIDEO, Milan, Italy, Oct 28-Nov 1, 2015
Strange Beauty Film Festival, Durham, NC, Oct 22-24, 2015
Imagine Science Film Festival, New York City, NY, Oct 16-24, 2015
Tallgrass Film Festival, Wichita, KS, Oct 16-17, 2015
FICSAM, International Mental Health Film Festival, Faro, Portugal, Oct 8-10, 2015
European Animated Film Festival Balkanima, Belgrade, Serbia, Oct 6-10, 2015
Stoptrik International Film Festival, Maribor, Slovenia, Oct 1-4, 2016
AnimaSyros International Animation Festival, Syros, Greece, Sept 24-27, 2015
Netherlands Film Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands, Sept 23-Oct 2, 2015
Raindance Film Festival, London, UK, Sept 23-Oct 4, 2015
Animacursed: International Festival of Darkness Animation for Adults, Rio de Janeiro, Sept 03-13, 2015; Sao Paolo, Sept 24-26, 2015
Massachusetts Independent Film Festival, Somerville, MA, Aug 26, 2015
Chain NYC Film Festival, Long Island City, NY, Aug 14, 2015
Snake Alley Film Festival, Burlington, IA, Aug 6-8, 2015 – WINNER BEST STUDENT FILM
San Antonio Film Festival, San Antonio, TX, July 28-Aug 2, 2015
Filmadrid, Madrid, Spain, June 5-13, 2015
Animasivo, Mexico City, Mexico, May 27-31, 2015
Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle, WA, May 24, 2015
Sunscreen Film Festival, St. Petersburg, FL, April 30-May 3, 2015
Philadelphia Independent Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA, April 17-25, 2015
Fete de l’Anim, Lille/Tourcoing, France, March 27-29, 2015
American Documentary Film Festival, Palm Springs, CA, March 26-30, 2015 – WINNER, BEST ANIMATED FILM
Flatpack Film Festival, Birmingham, UK, March 19-29, 2015
Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht, the Netherlands, March 18-22, 2015
Byron Bay International Film Festival, Byron Bay, Australia, March 6-14, 2015
ANIMATEKA, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Dec 8-14, 2014
Seville European Film Festival, Seville, Spain, Nov 9-15, 2014
PrimAnima World Festival of First Animations, Budaors, Hungary, Oct 29 & 30, 2014 – WORLD PREMIERE

In Italian playgrounds a song is chanted that dates back to World War I. This paint on glass animation tells this dark tale of a soldier who returns home from war to find his girlfriend has left him.

Credits:

Film by Tess Martin
“Tutti Mi Chiaman Mario”, traditional, sung by Anna Uberti with Emily Jane Tolimieri and Vittorio D. Mount.
Score by Jason Staczek
Made possible by 4Culture

SCREENINGS:
Aftermath: animations exploring war, conflict and loss, New Walk Museum, Leicester, UK, Oct 6 2018 & Centrala, Birmingham, UK, Nov 3, 2018
Dawson City International Short Film Festival, Canada, April 13-16, 2017
Animanima International Animation Festival, Haptic special program, Cacak, Serbia, Sept 7-11, 2016
Animation Attack!, Atlanta, GA, May 21, 2016
Cartoons & Bloody Marys, Seattle Transmedia & Independent Film Festival, Seattle, WA, March 26, 2016
Belgrade Film Festival, Belgrade, Serbia, March 20-26, 2016
GIRAF Festival of Independent Animation, Calgary, Canada, Nov 26-29, 2015
New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival, Chitose, Japan, Oct 31-Nov 3, 2015
Factual Animation Film Fuss, London, UK, Sept 26-27, 2015
AnimaSyros International Animation Festival, Syros, Greece, Sept 24-27, 2015
Animacursed: International Festival of Darkness Animation for Adults, Rio de Janeiro, Sept 03-13, 2015; Sao Paolo, Sept 24-26, 2015
Countryside Animafest Cyprus Festival, July 13-18, 2015
Anima Mundi, Rio de Janeiro, July 10-15, São Paulo, July 17-22 
Melbourne International Animation Festival, Melbourne, Australia, June 26-28, 2015
Brooklyn Film Festival, NY, May 31-June 2, 2015
Animasivo, Mexico City, Mexico, May 27-31, 2015
Short Circuit Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada, May 8-9, 2015
Sunscreen Film Festival, St. Petersburg, FL, April 30-May 3, 2015
Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht, the Netherlands, March 18-22, 2015
Victoria Film Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada, Feb 6-15, 2015
Black Maria Film + Video Festival and Tour, NJ, February, 2015 – WINNER: Director’s Choice 3rd Prize
ANIMATEKA, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Dec 8-14, 2014
CouchFest Films, worldwide, Dec 6, 2014.
zwergWERKchen, Oldenburg, Germany, Nov 30, 2014
St Louis International Film Festival, St Louis, MO, USA, Nov 23, 2014
Bradford Animation Festival, Bradford, UK, Nov 17-22, 2014
DOK Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Oct 27-Nov 2, 2014
Local Sightings Film Festival, Seattle, WA, Sept 30, 2014 – WINNER, Best Short Film
Moonrise Film Festival, Wells, BC, Canada, August 7-10, 2014
Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle, USA, May 24, 2014

A fisherman experiences a moment of connection with a female humpback whale in the waters off of San Francisco. Is this an example of inter-species communication or a mysterious fluke? This true story is retold in paint on a 16 foot high wall with the help of the passing public in Seattle’s Cal Anderson Park. Here you can see the film as well as a time-lapse of the film’s production.

Directed and Animated by: Tess Martin; Additional Animators: Webster Crowell, Stefan Gruber, Britta Johnson, Amanda Moore; Actor: DK Pan; Music & Audio: Spencer Thun; Interviewees: Jenny Asarnow, Alec Deason, Emily Eagle, Marc Hobbs, Ilana Holmes, Britt Madsen, Tristan Parker, Anthony Sonnenberg; Volunteers: Katie Durant-Storey, Alma, Khasawnih, Shannon MacIntyre, Britt Madsen, Doug Mora, Houria Rollosson, Venus Volante

This story was originally heard in the Radiolab podcast ‘Animal Minds’ and was animated primarily over one weekend in Seattle’s Cal Anderson Park.

Made Possible by: Sound Transit, 4Culture

SCREENINGS:

Rooftop Films, Seattle Shorts program, Brooklyn, NY, July 20, 2017

“Who’s Your Mama?” Earth Day and Environmental Film Festival at Kent State University, April 13, 2017

Ciné Privé Film Festival, Ghent, Belgium, March 3-5, 2016

WINNER, Bronze Spotlight Short Film Award

e4c, 4Culture media gallery, Seattle, WA, Oct 2015-Oct 2016

As part of Strange Creatures program (curated by Tess Martin):
ANIMATEKA, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Dec 8-14, 2014
zwergWERKchen, Oldenburg, Germany, Nov 30, 2014
Fay’s Film Festival, Free Fringe Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Sept 7, 2014
Cinema Nova, Brussels, Belgium, April 18th, 2014
OT301, presented by the A/V Club, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 13th, 2014
Kavarna Liberal, Prague, Czech Republic, March 11, 2014
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, Hungary, March 5, 2014
Under the Radar Animation Symposium, TopKino, Vienna, Austria, March 1, 2014
NW Film Forum, Seattle, WA, USA, August 3, 2013

As part of Children’s Film Festival Best of Fest Animation touring program:
Vashon Theatre, Vashon, WA – November 22, 2014
Cornell Cinema, Ithaca, NY – November 15, 2014
Cinema Falls, Sioux Falls, SD – October 18, 2014
Scottsdale International Film Festival, AZ – October 10-13, 2014
Nevada City Film Festival, CA – September 6, 2014
Lincoln Theatre, Mt Vernon, WA – June 21, 2014
The Colonial Theatre, Phoenixville, PA – May 22, 2014
The Pickford Film Center in Bellingham, WA – April 26 & 27, 2014
Rincon International Film Festival, Puerto Rico – April 8, 2014
West Hampton Beach Performing Arts Center, West Hampton, NY – April 5, 2014
The Rose Theater, Port Townsend, WA – March 9, 2014

Tassie Eco Film Festival, Tasmania, Australia, Nov 12-15, 2015

AniFilm International Festival of Animated Film, Trebon, Czech Republic, May 6-10, 2015

ANFFiS, the ANimal Film Festival, Suncheon, South Korea, May 22-28, 2015

NW Animation Festival, Portland, OR, May 4-10, 2015

Ocean and River Film Festival, Forks, WA, April 25, 2015

As part of the San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival traveling program:
Thunder Bay International Film Festival, Alpena, Michigan, Jan 21-25, 2015

Culture Collective, Global Visions Film Festival presentation, Edmonton, AB, Canada, January 29, 2015

Maryland International Kids Film Festival, Frederick, MD, January 17, 2015

Kids & Docs: from Documentary to Animation, Greek Film Archive, Athens, Greece, Dec 22-29, 2014

Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival, Flagstaff, AZ, Oct 8-12, 2014

Croatian Children’s Film Festival, Varaždin, Ludbreg and Čakovec, Croatia, Sept 25-28, 2014

Crested Butte Film Festival, Crested Butte, CO, Sept 25-28, 2014

We Like ‘Em Short Film Festival, Baker City, OR, August 14-17, 2014

Seoul International NewMedia Festival, South Korea, Aug 7-15, 2014

ANDKids World Film Festival, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, July 23-26, 2014

Doris Duke Theater, Honolulu Museum of Art, HI, Children’s Film Festival Earthwise program, July 20, 2014

Village Green Festival, Southend-on-Sea, UK, July 12, 2014

Last Friday Shorts, TAP Gallery, Southend-on-sea, UK, June 27, 2014

World Oceans Day Film Festival, Honolulu, HI, June 8, 2014

NewFilmmakers, Anthology Film Archives, NYC, June 4, 2014

Mountainfilm Telluride Festival, Telluride, CO, May 26, 2014 – selected for MOUTAINFILM ON TOUR 2014-2015
Charleston Music Hall, Charleston, SC, Feb 22, 2015
Indian Creek School, Crownsville, MD, Oct 25, 2014
Gryphon Theatre, Laramie, WY, Oct 10, 2014
Omni Mt. Washington Resort, Bretton Woods, NH, July 2, 2014

Global Visions Film Festival, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, May 8-15, 2014

Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee, WI, May 1-4, 2014

Redcat International Children’s Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, April 26, May 3 and May 10, 2014

Baltimore Green Week, Baltimore Green Works, MD, April 23, 2014

Flatpack Film Festival, Birmingham, UK, March 22, 2014

San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, March 8, 2014 – WINNER, Short Film Award.

As part of the 39th NW Filmmaker’s Festival Best of Fest touring program:
Eastern Oregon Film Festival, La Grande, OR – March 1, 2013
Ross Ragland Theater, Klamath Falls, OR – March 16, 2013
Northwest Film Center, Portland, OR – April 25 & 28, 2013
Cinema Pacific, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR – April 19, 2013
Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver, BC – June 26, 2013
Beaverton County Library, Beaverton, OR – September 19, 2013
Lower Columbia College, Longview, WA – November 15, 2013
Reed College Film Forum, Portalnd, OR – February 8, 2014
Eltrym Theater, Baker City, OR – February 20, 2014
Skagway Arts Council, Scagway, AK – February 21, 2014

PLAY – Lisbon’s International Kids Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal, Feb 1-9, 2014

Children’s Film Festival, Seattle, WA, Jan 23-Feb 2, 2014 – selected for BEST of FEST Touring Program

TGD 10, Experimental Documentaries Program, Maison de la Culture Douta Seck, Dakar, Senegal, Dec 31, 2013.

Short Film Festival Zubroffka, Białystok, Poland, Dec 4-8, 2013

Gaze #6: Luminous Impulse, Artist Television Access, San Francisco, CA, Nov 22, 2013

American Conservation Film Festival, Shepherdstown, WV, Oct 30-Nov 3, 2013

StopTrik International Film Festival, Niepolomice, Poland, Oct 25-27, 2013

Cine Eco, Seia, Portugal, Oct 19-26, 2013

ZIENaniMAtion Reverb Nite, Groningen, The Netherlands, Oct 1, 2013

Seoul international Extreme-Short Image & Film Festival, South Korea, September 26-30, 2013

Oakland Underground Film Festival, Oakland, CA, Sept 25-29, 2013

Incubate, Tilburg, The Netherlands, Sept 16-22, 2013

Washington State Studio Network Showcase, Lynnwood, WA, July 26-28, 2013

Revelation Perth International Film Festival, Perth, Australia, July 4-14, 2013

Experimental Film Festival, Portland, OR, May 25, 2013

Short Run presents: Ishi’s Brain, Seattle, WA, April 25, 2013

CineVic Short Circuit Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada, April 19-20, 2013

Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, NM, April 3, 2013

Dawson City International Short Film Festival, Dawson City, Canada, March 29, 2013

Water Docs International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, March 24, 2013

Tricky Women Film Festival, Vienna, Austria, March 8, 2013

Byron Bay International Film Festival, Byron Bay, Australia, March 7 & 12, 2013

As part of Inter-Action special program at Cinematheque Quebecoise, Montreal, Canada, February 1, 2013

Strange Beauty Film Festival, Durhman, NC, Jan 24-26, 2013

l’Alternativa 2012 – 19th Barcelona Independent Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain, November 20-25, 2012 – Winner, Hall Screen Lomography Prize

zwergWERK, Oldenburg Short Film Days, Oldenburg, Germany, November 25, 2012

Imagine Science Film Festival, New York City, November 15, 2012

interfilm, International Short Film Festival Berlin, November 13-18, 2012

Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, NC, November 11, 2012

Couch Fest Films, worldwide, November 10, 2012 – Winner, Best Rescue Story Award

NW Filmmaker’s Festival, Portland, OR, November 9-11, 2012 – Selected for Best of the 39th NW Filmmaker’s Festival Touring Program

St. Louis International Film Festival, November 8-18, 2012

Bradford Animation Festival, Bradford, UK, November 13-17, 2012

Regent Park Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, November 7 & 8, 2012

Tallgrass Film Festival, Wichita, KS, October 19 & 20, 2012

Local Sightings Film Festival, Seattle, WA, October 2, 2012 – Nominated, Naked City Brewery Audience Award

Cabbagetown Short Film & Video Festival, Toronto, Canada, Sept 7, 2012

Salento Finibus Terrae, FilmFestival Internazionale Cortometraggio, Carovigno, Italy, July 30, 2012

Portugal Underground Film Festival, Fundao and Portimao, Portugal, June 8-16, 2012

Toronto Animated Image Society, June 1, 2012

Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle, WA, May 26, 2012

9th Green Film Festival in Seoul, Seoul, South Korea, May 9-15, 2012

Slices in Time is a strata stencil animated loop and installation made for the ASIFAKEIL gallery space in Vienna.

PRESENTATIONS:
2015-2016 e4c, 4Culture media gallery, Seattle, WA
2014      Slices in Time (solo show), ASIFAKEIL, Vienna, Austria (Feb 1-March 15)