“The program I’m in is called Arts of Urgency, and it’s based on Latin American film and literature. Last quarter I explored animation in general, which I never really had a chance to explore before. This quarter we’re doing animation again, but it’s been a lot more around sound, which has really changed the way I work. My animation is not so much a story as it is an ongoing atmosphere that attempts to put the audience as the subject, almost as a first-person kind of view. The setting that I’m doing is specifically a community of immigrants; and their country has been increasing anti-immigrant laws, so they’re getting the feeling that they’re not welcome there. I’m trying to create that feeling of being hypervigilant because you know you’re in danger, but you don’t know who from or what from. Especially because I’m a writer, it’s kind of hard for me to express something not through the medium of words. Sometimes you just have to pair an audio track with some images--put them together and hope that people will understand. I need to work more with letting people interpret things how they like.”
