Artist Statement
In my work, I confront film with theater, documentary with animation, history with poetry. Lately, I have been making a series of “fairy-docs” - experimental films that fold timeless universal fairytales into today’s violent reality. Every short film features live actors and 2D hand painted figures - all shot in stop motion against the documentary background and focuses on violence committed against women and girls often under the pretext of love and care. I believe something uncannily similar lies at the foundation of intimate violence and international aggression, conquering land and conquering women, adulation of fathers and fatherlands. Fairytales have been with us for ages, wrapping a violence-torn reality in the long bandages of simple, repetitive sentences that even a child could understand and tuck into her heart. Warmongers and malefactors are as old as time itself—but so, too, are the tales of overcoming them.
Still from Little Fiel, a documentary with stop motion animation that I wrote/directed/animated with 2 other animators and produced