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📽 Throwback and appreciation post number 1️⃣: 🎞 ✨ It was an animation fairytale to finally be able to visit Countryside Animafest Cyprus! ✨ 🙏 Σας ευχαριστώ, dear festival, dear Yiorgos Tsangaris, Salamiou, jury, volunteers, filmmakers, locals, visitors, for creating such a unique place where the art of animation can be seen, lived, loved, and appreciated in every dimension! 🙏 🇺🇦 A special thank you for supporting my initiative 'PINSCREEN PRINTS 4 UKRAINE' and buying five riso-prints in the name of the festival! 🇺🇦 🎉 Many thanks to the dear Jury, Marko Tadić, Nadezhda Svirskaia, Petrit Gora for the special mention for CONTRADICTION OF EMPTINESS! 🎉 🙏 Und Danke Goethe-Institut e.V. Zypern for supporting my trip! 🙏 🔊 Sound design by wonderful Luis Schöffend 🔊 La Bande Vidéo Goethe-Institut Montreal MFG Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg mbH 2nd&3rd 📷 by ioanna economidou

What does it mean to come from a society and culture that seeks to wipe out another neighbouring country in the most brutal imaginable way? And at the same time being part of another society that finds it incredibly difficult to face this brutality? These multiple identities bring with them a multidimensional view, brokenness, and also responsibility, which I tried to give form to with my new film CONTRADICTION OF EMPTINESS. I wish that there were no reason for this film to exist, but the r*ssia’s full scale invasion is ongoing, and we need to keep talking about it. Thank you, World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb, for giving me this opportunity and inviting CONTRADICTION OF EMPTINESS for a World Premier! I would like to thank the best sound designer and partner in crime Luis Schöffend, who created the powerful soundscape and even helped with the pinscreen animation, La Bande Vidéo, who invited us to the pinscreen residency and made this stay an outstanding, mind-opening experience, Alexandre NOYER, who built this magic instrument invented by Alexandre Alexeïeff and Claire Parker, and the Goethe-Institut Montreal for supporting our project! And if you want to read some more thoughts about the project, check out the Zippy Frames - Indie Animation News article in the first comment. iraru.films Animation Germany AG Kurzfilm - Bundesverband Deutscher Kurzfilm

Last but not least, I would like to highlight the unique transitions in our music video MD - WLGTDWI. Each verse animation had a transition into the chorus animation and the stills from these animations are so unique and exceptionally beautiful compositions that I want to celebrate them in a separate post. Shout out to the transitions team: Veronica Solomon, Michelle Brand, Anita Gill, Iris Maier, Toby Auberg #animation2d #animatedmusicvideo #framebyframeanimation #milesdavis

We haven't shown you the amazingly wonderful, playful chorus animation of our music video MILES DAVIS - WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT here yet. It's a picture puzzle in motion with 22 characters that have the wildest and most emotional lives one can have in three seconds. It was such fun brainstorming with super talented Michelle Brand to come up with backstories for these characters. Here are some of their names: Cat Face / Horse Face / Big Lips / Sad Blobby / Sad Kandinsky / Piramide Kissers / Cheeky Guy. Can you guess who the Horse Face is here? . . . . . . . Credits for this scene: directed by Irina Rubina inspired by original drawings by Miles Davis animation // Michelle Brand compositing // Toby Auberg, Irina Rubina senior producer, Sony Music Entertainment// Derek Watson senior creative director, Sony Music Entertainment // Noah Shulman produced by Irina Rubina production company // iraru.films #animatedmusicvideo #2danimation #framebyframeanimation #cellanimation #abstractanimation #tvpaint

A small excerpt from our music video MILES DAVIS - WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT to show how excited we are about all the news from the previous post. Credits for the scene: directed and designed by Irina Rubina inspired by original drawings by Miles Davis character animation // Lewis Heriz    wavy road animation // Anita Gill   ghosty plants animation // Luca Tóth, Irina Rubina clean-up, coloring & in-betweens // Iris Maier script & editing // Irina Rubina compositing // Toby Auberg, Irina Rubina senior producer, Sony Music Entertainment  // Derek Watson senior creative director, Sony Music Entertainment // Noah Shulman produced by Irina Rubina production company // iraru.films #tvpaint #animationvideo #animation2d #animatedmusicvideo

It has been quiet here for the last few months, but not in the real world: So here is a little throwback and a huge thank you to all the wonderful festivals, selection committees and juries that invited our music video MILES DAVIS - WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT to visit so many countries & continents! We also got two awards and a special mention. A big shout-out to the whole wonderful team who made it happen! • Los Angeles Animation Festival - 𝘽𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙈𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘 𝙑𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙤 • 2024 Athens International Film + Video Festival - 1𝙨𝙩 𝙋𝙧𝙞𝙯𝙚 𝙈𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘 𝙑𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙤 • CutOut Fest International Animation and Digital Art Festival - 𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙈𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙑𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙤𝙘𝙡𝙞𝙥 past screenings: • Filmschau BW / Stuttgart, Germany • accordi @ DISACCORDI - International Short Film Festival / Naples, Italy • Anilogue IAF / Budapest, Hungary • Bilbao International Animation Community Festival – ANIMAKOM FEST / Bilbao, Spain • Festival Anima / Brussels, Belgium  → Thank you so much for your hospitality and the picture, dear Anima team! • 15th Roanne animation short film festival – Ciné court animé / Roanne, France • 28. Filmfest Schleswig-Holstein 2024 / Kiel, Germany • Brighton International Animation Festival / Brighton, UK • Nouveaux Regards Film Festival / Guadeloupe, France • Ciné-Jeune de l'Aisne / Aisne, France  • Beirut Animation Nights / Beirut, Lebanon • Lanterna Mágica – Festival Internacional de Animação Goiânia / Goiás, Brasilien Michelle Brand, Lewis Heriz, Veronica Solomon, Anita Gill, Luca Tóth, Toby Auberg, Iris Maier, Derek Watson, Noah Shulman Sony Music Entertainment, Miles Davis, iraru.films #animatedmusicvideo #filmfestivals #framebyframeanimation #milesdavis

Next (and some past) destinations for MILES DAVIS - WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT across Europe, North and South America: • DOK Leipzig / Germany (over) • The Animattikon Project / Cyprus (over) • Banjaluka International Animation Film Festival / Bosnia and Herzegovina (over) • 8º Bogotá Music Video Festival / Columbia (over) • PLUM! International Animation Film Festival /Argentina (over) • ArteNonStopFestival /BA2023 -International Film & Art Festival / Argentina (over) • TIAF - Tbilisi 6th International Animation Festival / Georgia / 2-5 November  • The Anim!Arte Festival / Brazil / 5–20 November  • Experimental Superstars / Serbia / 9-11 November  • Amarcort Film Festival / Italy / 14-19 November • CutOut Fest - Festival Internacional de Animación / Mexico / 16 November • Spark CG Society ANIMATION FESTIVAL / Canada / 9-12 November  • LONDON INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL / England / 24 November - 3 December • TOFUZI International Animated Film Fest / Georgia / 13-18November  • 8th Animation Marathon / Greece / 24-26 November Many thanks to all the festivals and congratulations to the amazing team! Michelle Brand, Lewis Heriz, Veronica Solomon, Anita Gill, Luca Tóth, Toby Auberg, Iris Maier, Derek Watson, Noah Shulman Sony Music Entertainment, Miles Davis, iraru.films #animatedmusicvideo #framebyframeanimation #milesdavis