About the Design

“A bunny breaks into the cinema screen, exploding into a fluid cycle of deformation and reformation.” – Danski Tang

We wanted this year’s festival identity to capture the fertile, ever-mutating, very-human energies of our creative ecosystems, a life force that continues in spite of this time of deep funding cuts to the arts. We thought it would be fitting to invite SDAFF alum Danski Tang (Umbilical, SDAFF ‘19) as this year’s guest artist. Danski created a hand-drawn animation that has in turn spawned an ever-growing visual world that intrigues, invites, and multiplies.

About the Artist

Originally from China, Danski Tang is an animation filmmaker and a visual artist now based in Los Angeles.

Focusing on hand-drawn animation and non-fiction, Danski stitches frames into a constantly evolving organism to explore themes of memory, the subconscious, cultural indoctrination, and body autonomy. Her work has been shown in numerous international film festivals such as MoMA DocFortnight, Melbourne Film Festival,Hot Docs Canadian Documentary Festival, Annecy Animated Film Festival, Hiroshima Animation Festival, Vienna Shorts Festival. Her latest film, Umbilical, won the Silver Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival, among other awards.

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