“Enfin, Sita sings the blues, Cristal du long-métrage, sera diffusé dimanche à 14h30.”
On DVD, because the French print and I are still in Avignon.
Sita in Paris (Centre Pompidou) Sunday June 29
Category: Animation
The Annecy and the Ecstasy
Adios Encore
I’m off to France, Serbia and London, back mid-July. I’ll blog if I can, but posts may be sparse depending on internet access and free time. See you in Europe!
The Apprentice Moves On
Wayyyy back in the Summer of 2005, I took on my first – and only – apprentice, Jake Friedman. In exchange for my Flash guidance, Jake worked on monkey-on-demon violence in the “Battle of Lanka” chapter of Sita Sings the Blues, devising some charmingly creative gore.
3 years have passed, and now Jake brings us this:
Press for Success
Another round of articles about Sita Sings the Blues:
“imaginative, giddily witty, visually delicious”
—Seattle Weekly (Editor’s Pick)Animating a Personal Flash Epic: The Making of Nina Paley’s Sita Sings the Blues
a long, detailed, and honest (maybe too honest) interview with Bryant Frazer for Film&VideoGods, Princes and Demons
New Statesman article by Salil Tripathi about the British Library’s Ramayana exhibit, including a paragraph on SitaNina Paley’s Path to “Sita Sings the Blues”
a long article by Ed Liu for ToonZone
Return of the Stork
My short film The Stork went missing recently – in fact its entire host, clusterfunction.com, was alarmingly missing from the interwebs for a while. But it’s back now (whew!), and cluster-functional as ever. Nonetheless, here’s a link for another host, Channel13. (The clusterfunction link can always be accessed by clicking the little picture of a stork head on the right-hand column of this page. Click all the different pictures and see what happens!)
Channel13, like Frederator before them and every other corporate or commercial or just plain big web site wants me, the media creator, to direct my fans to their site for their benefit, throwing in a small bone – you can vote for my film, and if it wins it’ll be broadcast on Channel 13 next Saturday, and I’ll get $500. I can tell you that in spite of countless friends and family voting for the Sita Trailer, it failed to win the “Freddie Award” – meaning some other creator managed to send even more of their friends and family to the site (for free of course). So I’m not very optimistic about “winning,” and I’m pretty ambivalent about these contests, as they exploit small non-commercial fan communities. However, I want both the Sita Trailer and The Stork to be seen by as many people as possible, so I’ll continue to let bigger websites use them as hit-bait under the guise of a contest. I guess. Maybe.
Oh yeah, feel free to vote. Or not.
UPDATE: “Stork” didn’t win, but did lead for a while. Thanks to everyone who voted for it!