Streamers want you to stay home and watch things alone. That's how they get rich. In this context going to CINEMA to watch movies with friends is a form of Resistance. Thank you, Thomas Flight, for tips on how to start a Cinema Club! @thomasflight.nebula.tv www.seeingthroughfilm.com/p/you-should...

She leans back and feels a knife pointing at her.

When in Berlin do the East West thing.

Only one week into the Year of the Fire Horse and we already have more fire in our step. (Also 2 days ago my studio building had a brush with fire when someone in the sweatshop below us forgot to turn an iron off)

The New Republic article explores why thousands of Cassandras were ignored in 2015 - 2016 by the "political experts". @thenewrepublic.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2060...

In increasingly political world this is an odd thing for a filmmaker to say. In particular, women rights at the moment is a political battlefield. For a woman filmmaker just the act of making a film, any film, is a political act. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Baltic Film magazine explores what makes Latvian, Estonian and Lithuanian films so special. One of the interviewees was me! Thank you, Kristīne Simsone! @kinoraksti.bsky.social @latvijasradio.bsky.social issuu.com/blacknightsf...

Check out ATOMIC FONDUE by Dan Mirvish on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/ato...

Animation First Festival invited me to be one of the panelists on the Sound and Animation panel. It is a perfect balance of 3 composers and 2 filmmakers to get plenty of insight on sound in animation. It takes place at French Alliance New York! Come! lallianceny.org/event/profes...

I'm at a loss for words. I'm glad someone else has them.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!

Minnesota is the best of us.

My new animated feature project KARMIC KNOT has been selected for Berlinale Co-Production Market from 390 submissions! We are thrilled and we are going! See you in Berlin! www.karmicknotmovie.com/post/karmic-...

European Film Academy speaks my language defining itself as an organization of "a fierce force for activism that stands unflinchingly beside filmmakers and champions the causes that matter most to our artistic community." YES Culture IS an act of Resistance. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

New York City turned OUT. @handsoffnyc.bsky.social ✊❤️

Trump 2.0’s second year may be even worse than the first. So, what can you do? Here are the 10 most important actions you can take in 2026. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-can-do-in-2026

As the Old Year - what an Ugly King! - slithers away hunched over in shame with its sword limpid, the multitudes of Light and New Energy buzz in ready to take charge. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Our talented Team Member Julia Mukai gave us this card wishing us Merry Winter Solstice and Happy New Year! As an animator she drew keyframes of the Lady of the Night flower opening and closing. Brilliant! Here's to many new Moons bringing us many more Blooms!

We will feast on the dead body of Darkness. Happy Winter Solstice! 💛💙

An American flag split in two rattles in the wind.

Our Team is working on a new set, with a piano and a goose. Aged walls add a charm! #art #animation

Good morning! Love is in the air and on paper in my studio.

Latvia's animation is in the news again! DOG of GOD is Latvia's official entry to Oscars and being graphic and provocative is entirely different from last year's Oscar winner FLOW. @thr.com interviews the directors - brothers Raitis and Lauris Abele. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

In this part of the Re:Frame interview me and Bill Plympton get into a fight (or rather a squabble) about money and how to finance independent animated films. I guess I don't have rosy views on being a 'content creator' but we can battle it out! buttondown.com/reframe/arch...

Just saw this street art in Brooklyn on top of bunion surgery ad. Beautifully thought out.

Pratt Institute's Women in Animation chapter came to our studio for a studio tour. They were open minded, curious, practical and process oriented. We had a stimulating discussion. My conclusion: the future of Animation is safe in their hands! #Art #Animation

In the moments of feeling the imminent doom when you doubt working on your project remember that Salinger wrote Catcher in the Rye while he was on the D-Day mission. The war ended, the book was published and life continued on. Making Art during the end of the world actually makes the world go on .

A drawing of pyramidal neurons passing signals from Amygdala to Prefrontal Cortex. Stop for a moment to appreciate the magic of your brain: the levels of coordination, synchronization and speed it takes to make a simple action like writing or reading this post.

RE:FRAME posted a conversation with me, Bill Plympton and Kambole Campbell. We discuss the reasons why NYC indie animation is thriving, how to build an animation community in the largest US city, what we think of AI and much more. A must read for aspiring animators! buttondown.com/reframe/arch...

Even my local Deli spontaneously joined DEI.

I am in awe that Alliance of Women Film Journalists dedicated their December Spotlight to an animator, and humbled and honored that the animator they picked was me. THANK YOU, Jennifer Merin and Leslie Combemale! awfj.org/blog/2025/11...

In this episode of the TV show Garainis, in a company of a black dog (a mother of 5) an aging animator explores her roots through the lyrics of Janis Peters - a poet who had captured the mystery of Latvian Soul in words. replay.lsm.lv/lv/skaties/i... #Art #Animation #Poetry

NOW: CLASHES Police vs Anti-ICE Protesters near Canal Street NYC as Protesters blocked garage with ICE agents inside

Bill Plympton’s indie animated feature SLIDE opened yesterday at Cinema Village. What a wild ride! And got to meet the creator, too!

Bill Plympton's new animated feature SLIDE opens today at Cinema Village, along with his Oscar qualified short WHALE, Q&As and more! Bring your family to make your Thanksgiving even more surreal than it is! www.cinemavillage.com/Now-Playing/...

Happy Thanksgiving.

On my work table.

Here's a seven-point peace plan:

If this is a moment when you feel like helping courageous Ukrainians to stay alive, here is one way to do so. www.help99.co/patches/timo...

My first animated feature film ROCKS IN MY POCKETS will screen at Kino Suns cinema in Riga as part of Studija Lokomotive 30-year anniversary celebration retrospective! www.bezrindas.lv/en/akmeni-ma...

We make a set, photograph it then I animate characters into the environment. This particular set is for a scene taking place in Veterinary Theatrum Anatomicum. The production of KARMIC KNOT never stops! #animation #art

An ink drawing of elephants reaching out of darkness. What are they groping for?

Everybody knows that Baltic countries produce some of the most successful animated films. But very few know the secret ingredient of this success. To shed some light on this mystery Riga International Film Festival organized Baltic Animation Meet-Up and invited me to speak. Photo by Agnese Zeltina.

More than 50,000 people have signed the petition urging President Rinkēvičs @edgarsrinkevics.bsky.social not to sign the law on Latvia's withdrawal from Istanbul Convention. It seems our populists politicians have completely misunderstood the society they claim to represent and try to manipulate

At the BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER Q&A the director Edward Berger and stars Colin Farrell and Fala Chen talked about their process of making this film about addiction in Macau. For me Macau was the true star of the film - gorgeous, moody, mysterious and made me want to see more of it.

At THE HOUSE OF DYNAMITE Q&A director Kathryn Bigelow said that with the film and its Rashomon structure she wanted to explore what competent people can and cannot do in 19 minutes to save the US and the World. I felt like with many other Netflix flicks the production process was too rushed.

Brinca Studio at Valle de Bravo, México screened my film MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE as part of their monthly private screening series. Here's their report: "We had a full house and everyone loved the film. A lot of laughter out loud, a lot of comments of how beautiful it is." More of this, please!

What Coppola, Jacques Tati and indie filmmakers have in common? We make films we want to make and we are willing to pay the price. Except, Coppola has a watch he can sell for at least $1 million dollars. Will it be enough to cover the $120 million hole? www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/st...