Animating Epics: An evening with Nina Paley

Nina Paley gained notoriety for her 2009 feature film Sita Sings the Blues, an animated musical based on the Hindu epic Ramayana. Today she turns to Abrahamic religion for her feature-in-progress, Seder-Masochism. Nina will show clips and discuss interpreting religious texts, her solo animation process, and whether culture/religion can be owned. To Register for this event, please visit: https://www.ucalgary.ca/fsc/pluralism-week/paley Nina Paley is the creator of the animated musical feature film Sita Sings the Blues. More recently she made This Land Is Mine, a short about Israel/Palestine/Canaan/the Levant intended for a larger project, Seder-Masochism. Her adventures in our broken copyright system led her to join QuestionCopyright.org as Artist-in-Residence in 2008. Prior to becoming an animator Nina was a syndicated cartoonist. A 2006 Guggenheim Fellow, she also produced a series of animated shorts about intellectual freedom called Minute Memes. As half of PaleGray Labs, she is developing techniques to combine animation with her other passions of quilting and embroidery. *This event is part of Pluralism & Religious Diversity Week, March 23 – 28. To learn more about this week and to view a full list of events on campus, please visit: https://www.ucalgary.ca/fsc/pluralism-week

Location:

Senate Room Hotel Alma

Speaker:

Nina Paley

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/animating-epics-evening-nina-paley