“This Land is Mine” is an animated musical short by artist Nina Paley that she describes as a “brief history of the land called Israel/Palestine/Canaan/The Levant.” A “who’s-killing-who viewer’s guide” is available on her website. You can make a donation to the Question Copyright project (which “assists artists in creating and releasing works under free licenses”) online. Paley is the project’s first artist-in-residence.
I envisioned This Land Is Mine as the last scene of my potential-possible-maybe-feature film, Seder-Masochism, but it’s the first (and so far only) scene I’ve animated. As the Bible says, ”So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”
In a fabulous episode of the brilliant series Seder-Masochism by the very talented filmmaker Nina Paley, an animated Moses finds himself confronted with a bevy of ancient goddess serenading him with the classic Pointer Sisters song "You Gotta Believe", causing him to question decisions being made by the newly installed…
Nina Paley has just released her first feature length animated film "Sita Sings the Blues", a beautiful interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana set to 1920's jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw. After overcoming some tremendous legal hurtles, she's now distributing the film for free under a Creative Commons license. If…
Animator Nina Paley designed a remarkable quilt consisting of 12 blocks, each featuring a horse in a different position as it gallops. When photographed and animated in a 12-frame loop (what Paley calls quiltimiation), the result is a stunning mix of color and patterns as the horse gallops. The quilt…
Nina Paley is hosting a special screening of her animated film "Sita Sings The Blues" on Tuesday, July 20th at the Delancey Street Foundation Screening Room in San Francisco as a benefit for Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Cartoon Art Museum. Join the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Cartoon Art…
http://youtu.be/dPtH2KPuQbs Awesome cartoonist and free culture activist Nina Paley has produced "Credit Is Due", another of her great minute meme videos, encouraging those of us who like to share and re-mix the work of others to be sure and give credit where credit is due. Check out Nina's blog post…
The amazing animator and free culture activist Nina Paley has just created another one of her minute memes — this one in honor of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's 20th year. Nina's feature-length opus, Sita Sings the Blues, will be screened on July 20th at the Delancey Street Foundation Screening Room…
