Nina Paley (born May 3, 1968) is an American cartoonist, animator and free culture activist.
She directed the animated feature film Sita Sings the Blues. She was the artist and often the writer of comic strips Nina’s Adventures and Fluff, but most of her recent work has been in animation. Her early short films include Fetch!, The Stork, and The Wit & Wisdom of Cancer.
In 1988, Paley moved to Santa Cruz, California and began to write and draw the strip Nina’s Adventures. In 1991, she moved to San Francisco. In 1995, she began to draw the more mainstream Fluff, a comic strip about a cat, which enjoyed a modest success in syndication. In 1998, she also began to experiment with animation.
In 1999, she made the world’s first cameraless IMAX film, Pandorama, a short Modernist film which was shown widely at major film festivals in 35 mm form during 2000 and 2001. In 70 mm form, it also ran for about a year as a short feature at Berlin Cinestar and has been shown at… read more
A brilliant collision of disparate elements into a truly unique film in which modern tools of animation are used to classic effect.
Something about her literal depiction of emotions with animations really hits the pit of those feelings for me.
