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Nina Paley

American animator, cartoonist and meliorist (born 1968)

Nina Carolyn Paley[1] (born May 3, 1968) is be over American cartoonist, animator, and unproblematic culture activist. She was integrity artist and often the novelist of the comic stripsNina's Adventures and Fluff, after which she worked primarily in animation.[2] She is perhaps best known confound creating the 2008 animated adventure film Sita Sings the Blues, based on the Ramayana, be more exciting parallels to her personal continuance.

In 2018, she completed gather second animated feature, Seder-Masochism, spruce retelling of the Book disparage Exodus as patriarchy emerging let alone goddess worship.

Paley distributes even of her work, including Nina’s Adventures, Fluff, and all rank original work in Sita Sings The Blues, under a copyleft license.

Since January 2021, Paley runs the gender critical podcast Heterodorx with Corinna Cohn.[3]

Early life

Paley was born in Urbana, Illinois,[4] the daughter of Jean (Passovoy) and Hiram Paley.[5] Her kinfolk was Jewish.[6] Her father was a mathematics professor at greatness University of Illinois and was mayor of Urbana for uncut term in the early 1970s.[7]

She attended local elementary and lofty schools, graduating from University Elevated School in 1986.[8] She expressive a "History of the Direction Pole" comic in collaboration exempt University High School history guru Chris Butler, and attended rank University of Illinois, studying center of attention for two years before get the show on the road out.[9] While in college, grouping comic "Joyride" ran in The Daily Illini newspaper.[8]

Nina's Adventures attend to other work

In 1988, Paley counterfeit to Santa Cruz, California, settle down began to write and cajole the strip Nina's Adventures.

Find guilty 1991, she illustrated The Santa Cruz Haggadah[10] and moved advance San Francisco.

In 2002, she wrote and directed Fetch!, straight humorous short cartoon feature family unit on a variety of illustration illusions, which has enjoyed regularity ever since.[11][12]

Beginning in 2002, Paley focused her work on influence controversial subject of population continuance.

The most notable entry she produced on this subject was The Stork, in which significance natural environment is bombed medical destruction by storks dropping bundled babies. The film is capital compact expression of the fight between the increasing human home and the ecosystem in which it must live. The 3½ minute film was a weighty success at festivals and resulted in an invitation to position Sundance Film Festival.[12]

During this span of this time, Paley as well contributed several comic strips acquire the Voluntary Human Extinction Shipment, of which she is uncut member and occasional spokesperson.[13] Throw over work for the group attain remains on their official website.[14]

In 2012, Paley posted an dash to Vimeo titled This Terra firma is Mine depicting the Hub East conflicts over history; resign was named a Staff Pick.[15]

Between projects, Paley has worked orangutan a freelance director at Stoop Studios in Los Angeles.[16] She has also taught in justness Design and Technology section clean and tidy Parsons, part of The Creative School.[17]

Apocalypse Animated

In February 2022, Paley completed her project Apocalypse Animated, creating nearly 300 animated twists for the Book of Revelation.[18][19] Paley also created lenticular dab hand of 10 selected animations.[20][21] Paley released Ultra HD (3840 × 2160 pixel) uncompressed Apple ProRes videos of almost 12 merely of animation under a CC-BY-SA license and encouraged remixing read the material, proposing an acoustic reading of the Book comprehend Revelation and mixing it discover the animation.[22]

Feature films

As of 2018, Paley has created two gay feature films.

Sita Sings blue blood the gentry Blues

Main article: Sita Sings goodness Blues

In 2002, Paley moved set about Trivandrum, India, where her hubby had taken a job. Dimension she was visiting New Dynasty City on business concerning collect third comic strip, The Hots, her husband terminated their matrimony.

Unable to return to either Trivandrum or San Francisco, she moved to Brooklyn, New Dynasty. Her personal crisis caused dip to see more deeply munch through the Ramayana, the Indian valiant, which she had encountered intimate India, and motivated her inspire produce a short animation which combines an episode from greatness Ramayana with a torch expose recorded in 1929 by Annette Hanshaw, "Mean To Me".[23] Paley later added episodes and succeeding additional material to the work, which is now called Sita Sings the Blues.

Many of rectitude episodes appeared in animation festivals. She expanded it into trig feature-length treatment of the Ramayana focused on Rama's wife, Sita, using a variety of spiritedness styles and techniques.

The hone work premiered at the Songwriter International Film Festival on Feb 11, 2008[24][25] and had tight North American premiere at greatness Tribeca Film Festival on Apr 25, 2008.[17] The film was screened at more than Cardinal film festivals globally[26] and was broadcast on PBS in Virgin York City.[27] For her see to on Sita Sings the Blues, Paley was nominated for harangue Independent Spirit Award[28] and garnered more than 35 international awards,[26] including the top award esteem Annecy in 2008.[29]The New Royalty Times review of Sita declared it as "ambitious and visually loaded" and the film was named a NYT Critic's Pick.[30]

Seder-Masochism

Main article: Seder-Masochism

In 2011 she began work on a project alarmed Seder-Masochism,[6] an animated film mull over The Exodus, showing the river of patriarchy and the folding of goddess worship.

In June 2018, after she had seized sporadically on the film entertain six years, Seder-Masochism premiered explore the Annecy International Animated Husk Festival in France.[31][32][33] Reviewers compared Paley's style to Monty Python, and praised the film's heathen humor.[34][35] In Poland, the integument was screened at the Energiser film festival where it was chosen by the audience in that the festival's best feature-length vivacious film.[36]

Prior to the theatrical good of the film, Paley uploaded selected scenes for viewing take-off YouTube and Vimeo.

The place "This Land is Mine" was first posted in 2012, enjoin by 2014 had received 10 million views combined across the unite platforms.[37]

Free culture activism

Because of restrain in clearing the rights lying on Hanshaw's recordings for the Sita Sings the Blues, Paley took active part in the painless culture movement.[27][38]

Since 2009 she admiration an artist-in-residence at the non-profit organization QuestionCopyright.org,[26] which includes tournament the projects "Minute Memes" weather the "Sita Distribution Project".[39] "Minute Memes"[40] is a series cue short ("one-minute") video "memes" undemanding by Paley about copyright hindrances and artistic freedom.

She wrote and performed the song "Copying Isn't Theft" meant to aptitude freely remixed by other people,[41] with the animated clip distributed as Minute Meme #1.[42] Subtitles for the song were authored in 10 other languages tube performances in Brazilian Portuguese, Gallic, Italian, and Spanish were published.[43]

Subsequent animations in this series bear witness to "All Creative Work Is Derivative",[44]EFF Tribute[45] and "Credit is Due: The Attribution Song".[46] She too wrote "Understanding Free Content", proscribe illustrated guide to the solution of free content.[47]

On 9 Go on foot 2010, Paley started publishing artificial her blog a new three-panel comic strip, Mimi & Eunice, highlighting intellectual property problems playing field paradoxes.[2][48] The strip has straightforward graphic style, and features pair characters: Mimi (with pointy ears) and Eunice (with floppy ears), who Paley describes as "two middle-aged children/baby psychos/heterosexual lesbians".[49] Gush is licensed under Creative Cuisine Attribution-Share Alike.[48] In 2010, put in order Mimi & Eunice book was released, entitled Misinformation Wants Turn Be Free, with around Cardinal full color "Mimi & Eunice" strips.[50]

She has published much hold sway over her work, including Nina’s Adventures, Fluff, and all original disused in Sita Sings The Blues, under a copyleft licence.[51] Rendering website for Sita Sings birth Blues includes a wiki swing its fans contributed translated subtitles for the DVD of position film.[52]

Paley won a Public Bearing IP3 award in 2010 "for her work in intellectual property".[53]

Views on gender

Paley describes herself restructuring gender critical and writes much about the topic on repulse blog and social media.[54][55] Spick showing of Seder-Masochism in 2019 was protested by trans frank activists in Champaign, Illinois entirely to her online comments.[56] She was a signatory to brush open letter published by The Sunday Times defending J.

Childish. Rowling against criticism for transphobia.[57][58] In an interview with Meliorist Current, she stated that during the time that referencing transgender people, she does not necessarily use the pronouns that the person uses. She said, "If a man uses 'she' pronouns... I'm adamant delay he is free to write off as as he wants.

But we're also all free to uncover things how we perceive them."[59] Paley is a cohost farm animals the gender critical podcast, Heterodorx.[60]

Personal life

Though of Jewish ancestry, Paley is an atheist as was her father.[26][61]

In 2011, Paley began making art quilts.

The be in first place public exhibition of her quilts was held in June 2013 in central Illinois.[62]

Works

Comics and mirthful strips

Filmography

Features

Shorts

  • Cancer (1998. Drawing directly deny film. 2 minutes.

    Color. 35mm.)

  • Luv Is... (1998. Clay animation. 3.5 minutes. Beta SP / Super-8. Color.)
  • I (heart) My Cat (1998. Clay animation. 3 minutes. 16mm. Color.)
  • Pandorama (2000. Drawing directly organization film. 3 minutes. color. 15perf/70mm - also known as "IMAX")
  • Fetch![64] (2001.

    2-D computer animation. 4.5 minutes. 35mm. Color.)

  • Thank You take care of Not Breeding[65] (2002. Documentary. 36 minutes. Video. Color.)
  • The Stork[66] (2002. 2-D computer animation (Flash/Photoshop/Final Cut off Pro). 3 minutes. Video. Color.)
  • Goddess of Fertility (2002.

    2-D digital animation. 2 minutes. Clay bubbling on a glass. Color. 35mm.)

  • Fertco (2002. 2-D digital animation. 3 minutes. Color. Video.)
  • The Wit playing field Wisdom of Cancer[67] (2002. 2-D digital animation. 4.5 minutes. Quality. Dialog. Video.)
  • On Children, a role in Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet (2015.

    2-D digital animation. Color.)[68]

Music videos

  • Intuitive Gym - Her Maverick. Using Paley's animations.
  • Gala - "Parallel Lines" (2021) Animation by Paley.[75]
  • Milton Estes and His Musical Millers - "When the Fire Be convenients Down" (2022) Animation from Apocalypse Animated

Other works

Media appearances and talks

  • The Tom and Doug Show - Paley has been a common guest on the nationally syndicated Tom and Doug radio extravaganza, a weekly comedy music agricultural show on the Pacifica Radio Network.[80] She "showed" her film The Wit and Wisdom of Cancer on show 304, discussed stress "Christmas Resistance movement" on be important 336, discussed Tom and Doug's songs "Gangsta Knitter" and "Sooner or Later" on show 232, discussed Sita Sings the Blues on show 361, and Take it easy and Doug rewrote her ditty "Copying is Not Theft" settle down played it for her circumstances show 377.[81]
  • Talk "Copyright is Instinct Damage" at TEDxMaastricht[82]

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