Anna Samo

Movies

The Japanese myth of the trickster raccoon
Director
On the dusty roads of a small village, a traveling salesman was having difficulty selling his wares. As he wandered the outskirts of town in the hopes of finding some new customers, he heard a high-pitched yelp coming from the edge of the forest. Following the screams to their source, he discovered a trapped tanuki. Iseult Gillespie details the Japanese myth of the shape-shifting creature.
Conversations with a Whale
Director
In this love letter to artists, their art and its audience, one filmmaker is trying to absorb rejection after rejection untill at last a beautiful fig tree nourished by the presumable failure bears sweet fruits.
The Opposites Game
Director
A stop motion animation that reveals the bare bones of violence by attempting to define its other.