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Anna Budanova

Anna Budanova

Birth : 1988-06-12, Sverdlovsk, USSR

History

Anna Budanova is a Russian filmmaker and graphic artist. She was born in Ekaterinburg, she studied at the Graphics and Animation Department at the Ural State Architecture and Arts Academy and worked as an artist and animator, taking part in the making of various films. In 2013 she made her first professional film called The Wound which went on to win more than 20 international awards including Annecy and Hiroshima special prizes. In 2015 she was one of three selected artists for the artist in residence programme organised by JAPIC in Tokyo (Japan) with her film project Among the Black Waves.

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Anna Budanova

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Animation

Rouge et Blanche, two happy twin sisters, live in an arid plain on the edge of a hostile forest they are afraid to approach. The danger comes from elsewhere.

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Rouge et Blanche, two happy twin sisters, live in an arid plain on the edge of a hostile forest they are afraid to approach. The danger comes from elsewhere.

Animation Director

A Japanese-produced animated film using Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons as its soundtrack. The four seasons all have separate animation directors. Its production was partly crowdfunded. The film premiered in Kitakyushu in 2017 along with a live performance of the Four Seasons and this performance was recorded and distributed to supporters of the project.

Among the Black Waves

Among the Black Waves

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This story is based on an ancient northern legend according to which the souls of the drowned people turn into sea animals. The Hunter steals a seal-girl’s skin, so she can’t turn back into an animal. She becomes his wife, but often she glances at the sea.

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An old woman remembers her life and the strange shadow figure that has followed her through it.