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Still from an abstract animation. A woman with blonde hair and a blue jumper with a cat on it falls down some stairs. There is a black hole and other sets of stairs floating around a gradient background, with alternate versions of the woman on them.

Accelerate Session: The Power of Animation to tell Queer Stories

As an LGBT+ led organisation, we are proud to present this accelerate session panel encompassing a diverse group of animators that have been working within the field of Queer Animation through narrative and experimental animation. We will discuss their themes, approaches and thoughts on representation and queer storytelling, highlighting how each director has worked with animation to illustrate queer lives on screen.

Kate Jessop (award winning animation director and Director of Brighton International Animation Festival) will be in conversation with Gina Kamentsky, Zohar Dvir, Daniel Sterlin-Altman and Erma Fiend.

Tuesday 17th February – 6pm – 7pm (UK time)
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Speakers

Gina Kamentsky is an animator, kinetic sculptor, sound artist and educator based in Providence Rhode Island. Her anxious and joyful short films blast out at twenty-four frames per second searing eyeballs and sending waves of buzz and crackle into the ether.

Zohar Dvir is an award-winning animation director, creating animated work inspired by some of the bigger questions of philosophy and psychology. Her distinctive animation style is self-taught, and blends two and three-dimensional elements as well as a healthy dose of surrealism.

Daniel Sterlin-Altman (he/him) is multi-disciplinary filmmaker based in Berlin, Germany. Daniel has directed several independent short films as well as commissioned works that have earned the Cristal at Annecy Festival, Golden Horseman Award at Filmfest Dresden, and Best Student Film at Animafest Zagreb, among others. He collaborates with the intersectional queer collective, Critical Queer Solidarity, and animation workshops throughout Europe.

Erma Fiend (the artist persona of Lee Friend Roberts) is a 2x Collision Award-winning director of surreal, mixed-scale stop motion animation for television, web, and beyond. Evocative and visceral, Fiend’s unique style transcends genres, audiences, and form, featuring real people, sentient objects, and tactile environments.

Still: Zohar Dvir’s Mercury’s Retrograde