Poems from the production process...
Inspired by our animated film “we fly, we crawl, we swim - a short film about climate justice”.
1 Prayer to all of the soft/hardware saints
2 Search engines never actually know enough
3 A single meaning
4 Listening to sound a/effects
5 Another day, another illustration, another frame
6 The laughter from the next to last frames
7 The work days of the last few frames
8 It hurts like this
9 Emailing people to ask them to support your work is work also
We were engulfed into this process from April to December 2020, with varying intensities. There were months of only a few hours a day, and there were months - in late autumn - with work from morning to evening. This intensity has been transformed into a language to tell of these experiences: of the day-to-day work of directing, illustrating, animating, adding sound and depth to a film that tries to speak about and with non-human animals.