Mixed Media Archives - Directors Notes

Leah Loftin Adapts Frontline Victim Testimony of Putin’s Invasion In ‘Dictionary of Emotions in a Time of War’

Leah Lofitn unpacks the rapid, bare-bones process used to create her expressionistic non-fiction short portraying first-person Ukrainian wartime experiences.

Animation, Live Action

Private Island’s ‘Meme, Myself and A.I.’ Dissects the Human Condition Through a Satirical Synthetic Nightmare

Private Island director Chris Boyle take us inside the intentions, toolset and techniques behind his mixed-media dissection of AI and the human condition.

Animation

A Child Navigates a Fantastical Dreamscape to Escape Their Harsh Reality in Leo Metcalf’s ‘A Time Before’

Leo Metcalf breaks down the mixed media approach to the dreamlike, experimental world of his immersive childhood trauma short.

Animation, Documentary

Journey Through a Young Woman’s Battle With Mental Health and Self-Acceptance in Melanie Cura Daball’s ‘Trust Me’

Melanie Cura Daball reveals why an ethical approach was an essential pillar in the making of her hybrid doc about her friend's battle with a bipolar diagnosis.

Animation, Documentary

How a Sextortion Scam Inspired Eugene Kolb’s Imaginative Exploration of Masturbation Shame ‘ur heinous habit’

Eugene Kolb speaks about striking the right balance between the salacious subject matter and the correlating animations of his doc about self-gratification.

Animation, Awards

Tal Kantor’s Oscar Nominated ‘Letter to a Pig’ Finds a Schoolgirl Transported on a Traumatic Inner Voyage

Tal Kantor breaks down the brushstroke-infused monochrome aesthetic of her haunting short about identity, collective trauma and the extremes of human nature.

Animation

How Joseph Wallace Created a Modern Folktale with a Timeless Message in new Short ‘Salvation Has No Name’

Joseph Wallace returns to DN with his most ambitious work yet, a 17-minute stop-motion folktale exploring the refugee crisis and xenophobia.

Documentary

Sally Tran’s ‘Centuries and Still’ Devastatingly Displays How Anti-Asian Hate Is Not a New Phenomenon

Combining 16mm, 8mm, VHS and video Sally Tran details how she documented the roots and persistence of anti-Asian hate in the USA in 'Centuries and Still'.

Documentary

Sally Tran Answers the Urgent Call to Join the BLM Movement With Mixed Media Doc ’60 Years and Still’

10 Black victims of police brutality are movingly surveyed in Sally Tran's table top mixed media film '60 Years and Still' — created completely in-camera.

Animation, Asides

Nothing is Original

Poligonic's Alberto Sáenz Gómez Tello exalts the creative power of stealing from the work that inspires you in animated short 'Nothing is Original'.

Animation, Asides

Too Young for a Memoir

Artist/Animator Case Jernigan submerges us in a reservoir of memory, nostalgia and regret in mixed media animation short 'Too Young for a Memoir'.

Asides, Live Action, Music Video

Viva La Vulva

Somesuch Director Kim Gehrig celebrates the diverse beauty of the vulva in this absolutely joyous, mixed media ad for Libresse, 'Viva La Vulva'.

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