I spoke with Stephanie Winn of You Must Be Some Kind of Therapist at the end of December. We got kinda deep and spiritual on the subject of cancellation and some other stuff.
Stephanie Winn Interview
Animator. Director. Artist. Scapegoat.
I spoke with Stephanie Winn of You Must Be Some Kind of Therapist at the end of December. We got kinda deep and spiritual on the subject of cancellation and some other stuff.
Hello Nina Paley,
I am writing to express my admiration. For me, you are an Artist Mountain, the scale of which I can only watch from the bottom of it. I am not trying to humiliate myself; I just want to show how I feel compared to the figure of your scale. Your movies, BOTH Sita Sings the Blues and Seder-Masochism, are masterpieces. We watched them several times, and my daughter, who was 10 at that time, loved them as much as I did when I was 44 years old. Both those movies are so philosophically deep, woman-hearted, and artistic. I can’t imagine the amount of work, heart, and effort you put into them. This is a work of a TITAN.
I did not know until today, when I listened to your YouTube interview on You Must Be Some Kind of Therapist and was shocked by how much you were forced to go through because of people who are too happy to be offended for any reason. I really love reading your texts because they are not sterile; they contain thoughts, doubts, and feelings, including pain. I was shocked again when I read about your thoughts on AI. I have very similar thoughts, but I did not expect that you also share these feelings—both awesomeness and frustration in front of AI. It is something closer to being able to communicate with a hybrid of a human and alien mind. And at the same time, understanding that we are buried under the diamonds is bitter.
I think, however, that this overproduction of diamonds will make other things valuable, such as simple, imperfect stones with a rare shape or color. You know, any time I am near the sea, I take some stones whose shapes and textures look beautiful to me. There are countless. But I still need to find something rare and beautiful; it is a need that is deep inside me as a human being. I think people will still be searching for something rare, beautiful, and meaningful to them. Your creations are my beautiful stones that I was lucky to find in my life and to keep inside me.
With this letter, I want to thank you for making my life richer. I wish for you to feel the gratitude people feel toward you. And I want to wish you everything you need for living a peaceful, happy, and meaningful life that you would be happy to live.