Neely Goniodsky

Director Carrie Haber delves deep into the anxiety, thrill and uncertainty of six aspiring animation artists as they are plunged into the twelve-week trial-by-fire that is the NFB's Hothouse for animation filmmakers.

You may stay as long as you wish but every time a new guest arrives, everybody must move to the next room.

You may stay as long as you wish but every time a new guest arrives, everybody must move to the next room.

A lonely old lady sits in an empty room knitting. As her thoughts wander, her dreams take the shape of fanciful knitted creatures and objects that cocoon her in a pattern of wonder and comfort. This film was made as part of the 5th edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

A lonely old lady sits in an empty room knitting. As her thoughts wander, her dreams take the shape of fanciful knitted creatures and objects that cocoon her in a pattern of wonder and comfort. This film was made as part of the 5th edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

The gradual transformation of copper through oxidation reflects the spirit of deconstruction, turning material change into a metaphor.

A collaborative video poem by participants in the festival workshop, Risograph Animated Poetry Workshop with Zine Hug, set to Dao Strom’s poem “POEM OF POEM TITLES FOR ‘DAYS OF THE WEEK’”. This poem was originally published in Instrument with Traveler’s Ode as a collaborative print book publication + cassette album release of Fonograf Editions and Antiquated Future Records (2020).

A collaborative video poem by participants in the festival workshop, Animated Poetry with Neely Goniodsky, set to Seattle Civic Poet Shin Yu Pai’s poem Poems for an Aeolian Harp.

Today, I <3 U _ _ _ _ challenges traditional societal norms surrounding relationships and sexuality, openly embracing non-traditional relationship structures and rejecting stigmatization of diverse expressions of sexuality. Made from high resolution scans of three intaglio prints of 14-frame animated loops, etched on plexiglass.