Sea Lion, 2009

A hand-drawn, animated short by Noemí Jiménez and Marie Demple for Robin Starbuck's Animation class at Sarah Lawrence College, 2009.

This film is the result of a year's collaboration that began during a trip through Europe in the summer of 2008. During the long train trips, we became fascinated with the faces of the elderly around us, and how simply through their expressions, they possessed the capacity to tell a story. Inspired by this, we employed classic animation to examine a moment of painful realization in the life of an elderly couple. Classic animation is a highly labor-intensive process, in which each frame of the film is hand-drawn and individually photographed. This film is the composite of several thousand drawings, which viewed on their own are quite spare- simply graphite pencil on paper. But when they are photographed in sequence, the subtle variety in them makes the characters come alive.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Sea Lion
• Noemi Jimenez
• Marie Demple
• Robin Starbuck
• Sarah Lawrence College