Abstract

Nina Paley's audacious animated feature, Sita Sings the Blues , was produced with a crew of one. Winner of a Jury Special  Mention at the Berlinale, the film defies established conventions of the movie business: self-produced, self-animated, no imposed "development," and absolutely no committee decisions. Here Paley discusses her production process from inspiration through final output to 35mm film. She also surveys a variety of Flash animation techniques, including cut-out, collage, rotoscope, and hand-drawing via Cintiq tablet. Catch a screening of all 82 minutes of Sita at the Stuttgart Trickfilm festival, and bring your questions!

THU May 08 - XX.00 pm - Nina Paley
"The Making of Sita Sings the Blues"

Independent Feature Film with Flash

Bio

Nina Paley started as a newspaper cartoonist with her self-syndicated weekly Nina's Adventures , followed by dailies Fluff (Universal Press) and The Hots (King Features). In 1998 she began animating her own short festival films, exploring stop-motion, painting- and scratching-on-film, and traditional drawing-on-paper, before making the first Flash-to-35mm festival short,  Fetch!   Nina lives in New York with her cat, Bruno, and occasionally teaches at Parsons School of Design.

Contact

http://www.sitasingstheblues.com/
http://blog.ninapaley.com/
email: nina_paley@yahoo.com