Telling Our Stories Through Animation
Join animation director Alex Salsberg for a discussion and workshop on creating animation from real stories and interviews, alongside a behind-the-scenes look at Of The Heart, the animated documentary on intergenerational friendship he created with the residents of a Hebrew Senior Life in Boston.
In this workshop, we’ll explore how animation is uniquely suited to capturing and immortalizing not only our personal stories, but the complex, and at times abstract, emotions behind them.
Participants will get a close look at the step-by-step process of creating an animated documentary and get a chance to dive into that process through hands-on exercises in interviewing, storyboarding and character design (NO prior drawing skills required!)
This is a great chance to meet an independent animator, ask questions about the ins and outs of the process, and get a closer look at Of The Heart after its appearance in DJFF Shorts Package 1.
Alex Salsberg
Alex Salsberg is an indie animation director who loves telling stories through funny, weird and heartfelt cartoons. Alex has worked on projects for Utkarsh Ambudkar, MTV, Nickelodeon, WGBH, Boston Children's Hospital and Peabody Essex Museum, and recently completed fellowships with Jewish Arts Boston and The Jewish Writer's Institute. He is the creator of “Artist+Jew,” a series exploring questions of identity that Jewish creatives wrestle with, and is the co-writer and director of the award-winning comedy short "Class of 84," about a family facing anxiety and mortality. Alex is also the host of "I Loved This Conversation," the podcast where creative people share what they're currently going through in both their art and their lives. Alex lives and creates in Rhode Island with his wife and two-year-old daughter.
