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3-12 octombrie 2025

Animated Women

Practica tradițională a autoportretului întâlnește noua tehnologie a realității augmentate într-un amplu proiect expozițional dedicat excelenței feminine în animație. Animated Women, inițiativa ce își propune să ofere mai multă vizibilitate creatoarelor din industrie, ajunge în România la cea de-a 16-a ediție Animest (8-17 octombrie, la București). În perioada festivalului, creațiile artistelor selectate vor prinde viață în cadrul unei instalații fizice, prin intermediul tehnologiei AR. 

Inițiativa Animated Women a debutat în 2020, în cadrul Fantoche International Animation Film Festival (Elveția), cu peste 40 de autoportrete animate. Proiectul a poposit de curând și în Olanda, la Kaboom Animation Festival, care a selectat 14 portrete pentru a le expune pe panourile publicitate din Amsterdam și Utrecht, într-un traseu itinerant dedicat artistelor din industrie. Până acum, aproximativ 100 de lucrări au prins viață prin intermediul tehnologiei AR în cadrul proiectului dedicat excelenței feminine în animație. Portretele pot fi admirate pe http://www.animatedwomen.club/.

Expoziția prezentată în cadrul festivalului Animest a fost curatoriată de Manu Weiss, creatoare Animated Women, și echipa Animest și aduce laolaltă 20 de autoportrete animate ale unor artiste internaționale. Portretele prind viață folosind dimensiunea AR.

 

 

Pentru a activa portretele animate:

  1. Descărcați aplicația gratuită Eyejack
  2. Scanați codul QR
  3. Îndreptați telefonul către portrete pentru a le anima folosind AR

 

 

 


 

Adela Holdon

 

Țară: România

Ocupație: Studentă la Arte

Links: Instagram, Linkedin

 

My name is Adela Holdon, and I am a 22 years old visual artist. Currently I'm in my second year of my Master’s degree in Graphics Art at the Faculty of Fine Arts within UNArte Bucharest.

 

 

 


 

Alma Cazacu

 

Țară: România

Ocupație: Motion Designer

Links: Website, Instagram

 

Alma Cazacu is cheerful and has tints of dark humour. She is trained as a film editor at UNATC in Bucharest, Romania & as a post-production artist at the NFTS in Beaconsfield, UK. She is working in various areas like motion + graphic design, animation, illustration and as a producer on a range of commercial and cultural projects. She is now in the development stage of her future award-winning animated short film.

Alma is an alumna of the first edition of the SYAA Workshop.

 


 

Andrada Iacobeț

 

Țară: România

Ocupație: Video Editor & Motion Designer

Links: Website, Linkedin

 

Her name is Andrada. She apparently loves staring at a monitor, endlessly tweaking whatever she's doing. This is the 42068th version of her bio.

Andrada is an alumna of the first edition of the SYAA Workshop.

 

 

 

 


 

Cosmina-Ionela Sandu

 

Țară: România

Ocupație: Fine Artist, hobbyist Animator

Links: Instagram

 

I am an art student at the Bucharest National University of Arts, currently studying Fine Arts. I am using in my creations the infamous Gen Z's clown meme as a way of coping with my own dark realities. 

 

 

 


 

Cristina Pîrvu

 

Țară: România

Ocupație: Artist

Links: Instagram, Website

 

Cristina is a visual artist from Bucharest with a passion for characters and stories. She has experience working in animation studios, creating visual development and character design, 2D hand drawn animation and 3D animation. In her personal work she often explores the female form and alternative beauty, looking for inspiration in her own daily life.

 

 


 

Diana Monova

 

Țară: Belgia

Ocupație: Animator

Links: WebsiteInstagramLinkedin

 

Diana Monova is a Bulgaria-born, Brussels-based animator and director. She is currently spending most of her time working as a 2D animator on films, TV series, commercials (most recently on Ari Floman’s “Where is Anne Frank”). Her passion for music though, combined with her skills as an animator, drive her strongly towards directing animated music videos. Her first try was a 1-min intro for a friend’s album, and this year she releases her first full music video for the song CO2 by British/Belgian band BRVT.

 


 

Elly Stern

 

Țară: Canada

Ocupație: Animator

Links: WebsiteInstagramLinkedin

 

Elly Stern is a mixed media animator specializing in stop motion. She graduated from Massachusetts College of Art & Design in Boston with a BFA in animation. Elly split her early life between Tel Aviv and Toronto, and she is currently living in Vancouver and working for Spotted Fawn Productions, an Indigenous led stop motion studio. Utilizing surrealism and a handmade approach, Elly’s animations explore the inner body and mind and approach issues from a strong female perspective.

 


 

 

Goga Mason

 

Țară: Italia

Ocupație: Animator, Illustrator

Links: WebsiteInstagram

 

Goga Mason graduated at Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan, and got a specialization degree in animation and illustration at ERG (ècole de Recherché Graphique) in Brussels, though she learnt her most precious skills from animator Yura Boguslavsky in Moscow. She loves colours and images in motion in every possible form, and the unpredictable feelings inspired by live animation. For years she has been working in cooperation with DENSO (Alessandro Fiorin Damiani) who creates sounds, voice and beats for her.

 


 

Ionela Adriana Mogosanu

 

Țară: România

Ocupație: Graphic Designer

 

My name is Adriana, I was born on July 29th, 1997. I am an art university graduate with a passion for travelling and photography, mixed with a love for drawing and painting. Most of the work I’ve been doing has been inspired by Romanian customs and the traditional art of Romania.

 

 

 


 

Iva Tokmakchieva

 

Țară: Bulgaria

Ocupație: film director, animator, illustrator

Links: Instagram

 

Iva Tokmakchieva (1994) is a director, animator and illustrator, who graduated in Animation from New Bulgarian University in 2019. Since graduating she is part of Compote Collective and works on different animation projects.

 

 

 


 

Laura White

 

Țară: Marea Britanie

Ocupație: Animator/Illustrator

Links: WebsiteInstagram

 

Laura White (Loops) lives in the UK and has been animating for over 5 years. She likes anything that's a bit odd and her work often focuses on the inner thoughts and feelings of women.

 

 

 


 

Lucie Levrangi

 

Țară: Franța

Ocupație: Filmmaker

Links: Instagram

 

Lucie is an experimental animator from France and currently based in London, where she recently graduated from Royal College of Art. She composes her films following an empirical collage approach : drawing, shooting film, sound recording, editing, researching, happen all simultaneously. Her animation practice is driven by her impressionistic perception of reality. Each of her frames is spontaneously drawn focusing on colors, light and her current feelings. The succession of these images shows the time passing, as well as the flow of emotions going through her mind.

 


 

Natasza Cetner

 

Țară: Marea Britanie

Ocupație: Animation Director

Links: WebsiteInstagram

 

Natasza Cetner is a Polish London-based Animation Director and a graduate in Animation from the Royal College of Art. Her graduation film "Nigel" premiered on Short of the Week and received Vimeo Staff Pick and she recently finished working as an animation director for a new short titled "The Wind Whistles" - a 15 min long hand painted in ink on paper documentary about Italian partisans from World War II. The film just started the festival distribution with Bonobo Studio. The main themes of her works are the absurdity of the world around us and the surreal, while other works and films focus on conveying the unconscious and its desires, fears, and the anxiety of the insomniac mind. She loves to take inspiration from real-life stories and transform them into engaging short films and visuals. Sometimes she makes films about weird birds.

 


 

Cristina Pecherle

 

Țară: România

Ocupație: Designer, Illustrator

Links: Instagram

 

Illustrator and designer from Oradea Romania. 

 

 

 

 


 

Réka Mátyás

 

Țară: România

Ocupație: Student

Links: WebsiteInstagram

 

I'm a 3rd year student in Romania, studying graphic arts at the University of Arts and Design in Cluj Napoca, experimenting with shapes, lines and colours, also striving to discover beauty in every form. Currently I’m focusing on animations and illustrations. 

Animation description: You’re looking at slow, bouncing and gentle movements expressing the state of the self-forgetting being. Focusing on gaps in our existence, excluding all external factors and focusing only on simplicity, joy and ease.

 


 

Sandra Barth

 

Țară: Germania

Ocupație: Illustrator & Animator

Links: WebsiteInstagramLinekdin

 

Right after studying graphic design and book arts in Leipzig, Germany, I founded a design studio called BARBAR together with my sister in 2013. We decided to specialize on our passions in 2018, so while she became a UI/UX expert I concentrated on animation and illustration and transformed the studio into an animation studio. I mostly work on animated web content, explainers, editorial illustrations and just recently stepped into the world of 3D animation and AR.

 


 

Sarah Walsh

 

Țară: Irlanda

Ocupație: Visual Development Artist

Links: WebsiteInstagram

 

Sarah is an Illustrator and Visual Development Artist from Ireland working in animation for over seven years. Her strengths include colour design, environmental design and illustration and in her spare time she likes to work on short animation and illustration projects. 

 

 


 

Sofiia Melnyk

 

Țară: Ucraina

Ocupație: animator and illustrator

Links: WebsiteInstagram

 

Sofiia Melnyk is a Ukrainian animator and illustrator based both in Kyiv and Stuttgart. She graduated from Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in 2018 and is working now as a freelancer. Sofiia loves combining animation with literature, illustrates music and is a big AnimaDoc fan.  

 

 


 

Teodora Pascanu

 

Țară: România

Ocupație: Artist

Links: Instagram

 

Teodora Pascanu, aka paTeo, is a full time architect, part-time illustrator, wannabe animator, based in Bucharest.   

 

 

 

 


 

Gabi Toma

 

Țară: România

Ocupație: Graphic designer/Illustrator

Links: Instagram

 

Gabi Toma is a self-taught graphic designer and illustrator based in Bucharest. In her work, she loves using vibrant colors and fun characters to tell stories. Gabi also enjoys bringing her illustrations to life through animation. Also, she may have a slight obsession with cats.