Hula Hoop, 2012, 1’30’’ (sand animation)

A girl with a hula hoop becomes a goldfish becomes the Earth itself. The ordinary and the extraordinary loop and transform in this playful take on the circle of life told in grains of sand.

This short film was created as part of an exquisite corpse collective film with the Seattle Experimental Animation Team in 2012.

SCREENINGS:

Solo Para Cortos, Barcelona, Spain, March 21-26, 2017
e4c, 4Culture media gallery, Seattle, WA, Oct 2015-Oct 2016
zwergWERKchen, Oldenburg, Germany, Nov 30, 2014
El Meu Primer Festival, Barcelona, Spain, Nov 16-30, 2014
Citizen Jane Film Festival, Columbia, MO, Nov 7-9, 2014
Mill Valley Film Festival, San Rafael, CA, Oct 2-12, 2014
Crested Butte Film Festival, Crested Butte, CO, Sept 25-28, 2014
SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival, Vancouver, BC, Aug 11, 2014
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Digital Art Display, Seattle, WA, July 1-Sept 30, 2014
Irish Film Institute Family Film Festival, Dublin, Ireland, July 17-20, 2014
Yale Center for British Art Children's Film Festival, New Haven, CT, June 14, 2014
Redcat International Children's Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, April 27, May 4 and May 11, 2014
Doris Duke Theater, Honolulu Museum of Art, HI, Children's Film Festival Talk to the Animals program, April 20, 2014
TIFF Kids International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, April 8-20, 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
Regent Park Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, Nov 13-16, 2013
Aberystwyth Arts Centre 'the box', Aberystwyth, Wales, UK, Sept 9-Oct 31, 2013
Revelation Perth International Film Festival, Perth, Australia, July 4-14, 2013
Toronto Animated Image Society, Toronto, Canada, May 11, 2013
Short Run presents: Ishi’s Brain, Seattle, WA, April 25, 2013
St. Louis International Film Festival, November 8-18, 2012
Se-ma-for Film Festival, Lodz, Poland, October 10-13, 2012
Local Sightings Film Festival, Seattle, WA, October 2, 2012
The Seattle Times Three Minute Masterpiece, Seattle International Film Festival, May 19, 2012