They Look Right Through You, 2013, 9’5’’ (marker-on-glass animation & time lapse)

Whether cat people or dog people, we all think we have relationships with our pets. But do our pets feel the same way? Can we ever really know how our animals see us, or are our relationships with them ultimately a leap of faith? This marker-on-glass animated short uses interviews to explore the depth and limitations of human-pet relationships, and how we communicate, feel for and understand each other.

CREDITS:

A film by Tess Martin

Music by Spencer Thun

Color Correction by Charlie Daugherty

Interviewees:

Amanda Potter

Brandon LaPrade Bye

Craig Thompson

Krizten Breiderich

Susie Tennant

Stephen and Linda Martin

René Puanani Hirata

Special thanks to

Susie Tennant and Stephen Martin

for sharing their stories

Thank you for letting me into your animals' spaces:

Julia Montagnet

Amanda Potter

Sarah Stuteville

Sam & Sandra Sakura

Louis and Georgia Watanabe

Cassidy Dimon

Marisa Vitiello and Tom Yoder

This film was made possible by:

4Culture, City of Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, Artist Trust, I-Park Foundation Residency

SCREENINGS:

As part of Strange Creatures program (curated by Tess Martin):

R>>EJECT RADICALS Festival, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Jan 26, 2015

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

e4C, 4Culture media gallery, Seattle, WA April 2017-April 2018
ANFFiS, the ANimal Film Festival, Suncheon, South Korea, May 22-28, 2015
Alaska Airlines in-flight entertainment SIFF Channel, December 2014/January 2015
Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival, Flagstaff, AZ, Oct 8-12, 2014
Fantasia International Film Festival, Montreal, Canada, July 17-Aug 5, 2014
Rainier Independent Film Festival, Ashford, WA, May 10, 2014
Green Film Festival in Seoul, South Korea, May 8-15, 2014
Short Circuit Film Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada, May 2-3, 2014
Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, NM, USA, April 16, 2014
Tricky Women Film Festival, Vienna, Austria, March 13, 2014
Byron Bay International Film Festival, Byron Bay, Australia, Feb 28-March 9, 2014
San Francisco Indie Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, Feb 15 & 20, 2014
St Louis International Film Festival, St Louis, MO, Nov 14-24, 2013
Local Sightings Film Festival, Seattle, WA, USA, Sept 27-Oct 3, 2013
Fest Anca International Animation Festival, Zilini, Slovakia, June 27-30, 2013
Seattle International Film Festival, May 18, 19 & June 9, 2013