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Nikita Diakur
Nikita Diakur is a Russian-born filmmaker based in Germany. His most distinguished projects “Ugly” and “Fest” have received multiple awards and screened at film festivals around the world. The signature technique used in his films is dynamic computer simulation, which embraces spontaneity, randomness and mistakes.
Diakur is regularly giving talks and workshops at Festivals and Universities, has been artist in residence at Q21 in Vienna and is a member of the European Film Academy.
PictoTalk: 35’43’’, 1080p mp4 (H.264), 495MB
Recorded in Berlin, 2019
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15th
Pictoplasma
Conference
Speakers
Anna Mantzaris
Anna Mantzaris is a multi-award winning Swedish animation director based in London. Working in stop motion and felt puppets, her work is often character-driven and mixes humor and melancholy. Anna is represented by Passion Studios, where she directs various types of commercials and commissions, most recently a Christmas advert for Greenpeace.
Cornelia Geppert
25’37’’, 1080p mp4 (H.264), 192MB
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Cornelia Geppert is CEO and creative head of Jo-Mei Games, where she is about to release her own adventure video game: In Sea of Solitude a young woman named Kay explores an abandoned, submerged city to find out why she has turned into a monster. Cornelia describes the project as her most personal and artistic to date, leading her to probe her own fears and emotions.
dina Amin
EGY
Elenor Kopka
30’50’’, 1080p mp4 (H.264), 350MB
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Elenor Kopka is a freelance animator and illustrator best known for her grainy, black-and-white wormlike characters and ever-mutating blobs. Her animated shorts, GIFs and music videos draw inspiration from ghosts and cartoon metamorphosis. Her clients include Adult Swim, MTV, City Slang Records and Giphy.
Félicie Haymoz
29’07’’, 1080p mp4 (H.264), 229MB
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Félicie Haymoz was born in Switzerland and lives in Brooklyn. She took her first steps as a character designer on the animated feature Max&Co and has become Wes Anderson’s go-to character creator for his stop motion features: first on Fantastic Mr. Fox, for which she was the lead character designer tasked with turning Hollywood A-listers into lovable furry animals, and then on Isle of Dogs, for which she designed the human characters.
Iza Rutkowska
32’13’’, 1080p mp4 (H.264), 335MB
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Iza Rutkowska is a Polish visual artist, designer, educator, and cultural manager who uses artistic tools to integrate communities and instigate social change. Focussing on education as process, she has worked with children to build playgrounds and the residents of buildings to design their backyards, equipping them with sustainable skills to develop projects independently.
J. W. Nijman & Kitty Calis
19’30’’, 1080p mp4 (H.264), 253MB
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Kitty Calis and Jan Willem Nijman recently released the famed adventure Minit—a game played in sixty second increments. Players leave home to help unusual folk, uncover secrets, and overcome dangerous foes, all in the hope of lifting a curse that ends each day after just one minute. With its minimalist, black and white design, the game echoes early arcade culture and features an iconic beaked character.
Jeron Braxton
USA
John Bond
John Bond is an illustrator, author, and artist from the UK working in animation and online media as well as print and painting. He has produced and directed projects for clients such as BBC, Disney, Channel 4, MTV, and Tate. His debut picture book Mini Rabbit Not Lost was published by Harper Collins in 2018. John utilizes a cast of charming characters (typically dogs) to explore the endless quirks and innocence of our day-to-day existence.
Justin K. Thompson
Justin K. Thompson is an award-winning production designer who recently worked in this capacity on the latest feature film by Sony Pictures Animation, Academy Award winner Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Previously he designed Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and its sequel. Prior to joining Sony Pictures Animation, Thompson worked at The Orphanage Animation Studios, The Jim Henson Company,…
Laurie Rowan
30’35’’, 1080p mp4 (H.264), 376MB
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Laurie Rowan is an award winning animator and illustrator based on the south coast of England. After a decade of working within the creative industries for high profile clients and campaigns including BBC, Channel 4, MTV, Disney, and Google, Laurie decided to branch out with his own brand of wobbly characters, exploring grotesque corporeality, rhythm and movement.
Luke Pearson
28’32’’, 1080p mp4 (H.264), 169MB
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Luke Pearson is an illustrator and comic book artist who lives in Nottingham. He is best known as the creator of the Hilda series of graphic novels and for the Netflix animated series produced by Silvergate Media based on them.
Olaf Breuning
Olaf Breuning works in photography, drawing, sculpture, video and installation, tackling the big existential questions tongue-in-cheek, and always with a healthy disrespect for the art world. Fusing high art and mass culture, the human—often in cartoonish form—is always at the center of his endeavors. His countless international exhibitions include a major retrospective at NRW-Forum Düsseldorf and a solo show at Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
Parallel Teeth
32’43’’, 1080p mp4 (H.264), 480MB
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Parallel Teeth is the artistic moniker of animation director and illustrator Robert Wallace, famed for his energetic style, full of playful characters and bold color. Robert combines his interest in the occult with hazy memories of Sunday morning cartoons to create music videos, commercials, GIFs, album artwork, projections, 360 videos and everything in between.
Philippa Rice
25’08’’, 1080p mp4 (H.264), 199MB
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Philippa Rice is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Soppy. She is an artist who works in a number of different media from comics, illustration, animation, model making to crochet. Her other works include the collage-based webcomic My Cardboard Life and her stop-motion animated crochet characters. Philippa lives in Nottingham, UK, with her partner Luke Pearson and their daughter.
Sos Sosowski
23’56’’, 1080p mp4 (H.264), 501MB
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Self-proclaimed mad scientist of video games, Sos Sosowski is a former school teacher turned game jam addict and recently embarked on a quest to create the worst video game ever. The result is Mosh Pit Simulator—a VR experience about a world overrun by brainless, boneless, nipple-less humanoids, desperately trying to continue life as usual (shopping, going on dates, driving cars). It’s up to you, the player, to show empathy—or get in their way.
Twee Muizen
33’06’’, 1080p mp4 (H.264), 205MB
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Twee Muizen is the artistic duo of fine artist Denís Galocha and fashion designer Cristina Barrientos. Both grew up in villages near Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, surrounded by mountains, animals and nature—all of which figure prominently in their work. After a period of working in Amsterdam, they moved to Barcelona where they spend most of their time in their workshop and gallery, creating murals, fake taxidermy, paintings, and costumes.
Yukai Du
33’00’’, 1080p mp4 (H.264), 411MB
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Growing up in China, Yukai Du moved to London to study at Central Saint Martins where she graduated five years ago. She works in both still and moving images for a list of major brands. Yukai draws inspiration from Impressionism, using layerings of dots and dashes to create kaleidoscopic surfaces of light particles and pattern, combined with a love for the simplistic and geometric structures of Brutalism.