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Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Michelle And Uri Kranot

The duo’s films explore political and social themes with inventiveness, humor, and a wide range of techniques.

Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Isabelle Favez

Favez’s short films and tv work feature an assortment of odd yet lovable and compassionate characters seeking social connections.

Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Christopher Rutledge

Rutledge’s works are trippy cg wonders that take viewers on a sensory ride they never knew they wanted or needed.

Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Nikita Diakur

Diakur’s utterly original films have garnered acclaim for using software glitches and defects to tell sensitive stories about equally broken humans

Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Priit Pärn (Exclusive Video)

This week’s subject is Estonian master Priit Pärn, the animation successor of Jean-Luc Godard, George Grosz, Pop Art, and Monty Python.

Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Gina Kamentsky

Kamentsky’s camera-less, abstract pieces combine technical innovation with frequently absurd, comical, and saucy storylines.

Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Michaela Pavlátová

Pavlátová’s films obsessively explore how language, boredom, sex, desire, and death inevitably mess up marriages and relationships.

Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Elise Simard

Simard’s multi-layered works eschew straightforward narratives and explore overlapping sensations wide open to interpretation.

Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Julia Ocker

Ocker cleverly explores themes of peer pressure, loneliness, ethics, fear, and anxiety, while celebrating the differences in each of us.

Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Jonni Phillips

Phillip’s bold, funny, and deeply personal works explore a mélange of characters as they skulk, slide, and scrape their way through life.

Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Juan Pablo Zaramella

Zaramella’s diverse body of work includes technically adventurous films that use live action, drawings, clay, pixilation, paper puppets, human fingers, and all manner of other objects.

Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Kangmin Kim

This week’s subject is the L.A.-based Kangmin Kim, whose stop-motion films showcase striking design and innovative storytelling.

Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Xi Chen

Xi Chen’s cut-out films take a slow dive into personal stories in order to tackle larger societal and cultural issues in China.

Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Emily Pelstring

Pelstring’s animation is akin to watching early 1980s television on a broken down portable tv set while ingesting a small dose of mescaline.

Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Amanda Forbis And Wendy Tilby

The Canadian duo uses relatable stories and characters to dive into chance encounters, random collisions, and the fragility of existence.

Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Andreas Hykade

Hykade’s films combine a distinctive, minimalist design with often deeply personal stories about masculinity, religion, addiction, and love.

Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Joseph Pierce

Joseph Pierce’s darkly comic and surreal work unearths the often absurd and dark spots in human behavior.

Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Phil Mulloy

Learn about British filmmaker Phil Mulloy whose bold, grotesque, and minimalist works explore the dark and savage side of human nature.

Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Sean Buckelew

Buckelew’s understated body of work often explores our complicated relationship with technology.

Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Sander Joon

Sander Joon’s films combine absurdist scenarios with bold minimalist design and stylish abstract animation.