Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Run Wrake
Run Wrake’s multi-layered works connect an onslaught of imagery from diverse media and loop them with a brilliant sense of rhythm.
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Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Jérémy Clapin
Clapin’s thought-provoking off-beat short works often deal with identity, mental health, childhood, and body parts.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Sara Gunnarsdóttir
Gunnarsdóttir’s work has an edgy, punky vibe throughout that often aptly reflects the grungy, fragile existence of her subjects.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Matthew Rankin
Canadian filmmaker Matthew Rankin explores local, national, and international history with an eccentric and deadpan touch that is refreshingly and genuinely loving.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Kōji Yamamura
Yamamura’s films are a bit like chameleons. Each looks different from the previous one, yet there can be no doubt that the films are his.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Signe Baumane
Baumane’s work touches on sex, gender, relationships, and mental health with a fierce sense of humor and refreshing bluntness.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Cristóbal León And Joaquín Cociña
Using dark, absurdist humor and nightmarish imagery, the duo has cooked up a body of work that is spellbinding, surreal, and often political.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Winston Hacking
Hacking’s work is freewheeling chaos – mind-twirling wonders that seep inside you before you even have a clue why or how.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Réka Bucsi
Bucsi’s films are soft, sensual, and magical works that soothingly explore love, nature, and the universe.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Mirai Mizue
Mizue’s visually scrumptious, kaleidoscopic wonders dazzle the eyes and ears.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Michelle And Uri Kranot
The duo’s films explore political and social themes with inventiveness, humor, and a wide range of techniques.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Isabelle Favez
Favez’s short films and tv work feature an assortment of odd yet lovable and compassionate characters seeking social connections.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Christopher Rutledge
Rutledge’s works are trippy cg wonders that take viewers on a sensory ride they never knew they wanted or needed.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Nikita Diakur
Diakur’s utterly original films have garnered acclaim for using software glitches and defects to tell sensitive stories about equally broken humans
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Priit Pärn (Exclusive Video)
This week’s subject is Estonian master Priit Pärn, the animation successor of Jean-Luc Godard, George Grosz, Pop Art, and Monty Python.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Gina Kamentsky
Kamentsky’s camera-less, abstract pieces combine technical innovation with frequently absurd, comical, and saucy storylines.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Michaela Pavlátová
Pavlátová’s films obsessively explore how language, boredom, sex, desire, and death inevitably mess up marriages and relationships.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Elise Simard
Simard’s multi-layered works eschew straightforward narratives and explore overlapping sensations wide open to interpretation.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Julia Ocker
Ocker cleverly explores themes of peer pressure, loneliness, ethics, fear, and anxiety, while celebrating the differences in each of us.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Jonni Phillips
Phillip’s bold, funny, and deeply personal works explore a mélange of characters as they skulk, slide, and scrape their way through life.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Juan Pablo Zaramella
Zaramella’s diverse body of work includes technically adventurous films that use live action, drawings, clay, pixilation, paper puppets, human fingers, and all manner of other objects.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Kangmin Kim
This week’s subject is the L.A.-based Kangmin Kim, whose stop-motion films showcase striking design and innovative storytelling.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Xi Chen
Xi Chen’s cut-out films take a slow dive into personal stories in order to tackle larger societal and cultural issues in China.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Emily Pelstring
Pelstring’s animation is akin to watching early 1980s television on a broken down portable tv set while ingesting a small dose of mescaline.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Amanda Forbis And Wendy Tilby
The Canadian duo uses relatable stories and characters to dive into chance encounters, random collisions, and the fragility of existence.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Andreas Hykade
Hykade’s films combine a distinctive, minimalist design with often deeply personal stories about masculinity, religion, addiction, and love.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Joseph Pierce
Joseph Pierce’s darkly comic and surreal work unearths the often absurd and dark spots in human behavior.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Phil Mulloy
Learn about British filmmaker Phil Mulloy whose bold, grotesque, and minimalist works explore the dark and savage side of human nature.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Sean Buckelew
Buckelew’s understated body of work often explores our complicated relationship with technology.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Sander Joon
Sander Joon’s films combine absurdist scenarios with bold minimalist design and stylish abstract animation.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Špela Čadež
Špela Čadež’s visually distinct works deal with tricky themes like addiction and domestic violence with compassion, humor, and no judgement.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Chintis Lundgren
Self-taught, Chintis Lundgren quickly made a mark in the animation world with her visually distinct and quirky works that place animal characters in frequently absurd, kinky, and distinctly human situations.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Atsushi Wada
Wada is a key figure in Japan’s contemporary indie animation scene.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Igor Kovalyov
The Ukrainian director of “The Rugrats Movie” is known by many in the animation community for his personal short films.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Khris Cembe
The second installment in our series looks at a Spanish artist with a feel for the macabre.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Elizabeth Hobbs
Welcome to a new series in which we profile the most interesting independent animation filmmakers working today.
