Making sense of my sketches and animating for KARMIC KNOT often feels like a tango: two steps forward, three steps backward, five to the side. Then, suddenly, some of it comes to LIFE!
Signe Baumane
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Filmmaker | Animator | Writer | Artist | MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE | ROCKS IN MY POCKETS | KARMIC KNOT MyLoveAffairWithMarriage.com KarmicKnotMovie.com
Greenpoint Film Festival will screen my short BIRTH on August 7th at 5PM, with a Q&A to follow - I'll answer your questions about the film and my path in animation. Afterwards, we can all go out to celebrate MY birthday! tickets.greenpointfilmfestival.org/schedule/pro...
Reminder to friends: Z won't be able to deliver his agenda unless the state legislature will hold the line against Governor Hochul and force her to #TaxTheRich. To do that, we need to win at least 7 Leftist Assembly primaries today. So if you can join us in the field anytime before 9pm, please do.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2mo agoNYC, today is Primary Day. Polls are open NOW and close at 9 PM tonight. Be sure to get your vote in before then. For your polling site and more information, go to vote.nyc. Make your voice heard, New York City.
May the thousand Suns purge this place! Happy SUMMER SOLSTICE!
Hey, friends in NY-10! It's time to vote for @bradlander.bsky.social, and here's why, illustrated with photos! I've taken more pictures of this dude than any other elected because he always shows up, supporting people & causes I care about. Check it out & VOTE! Find your polling site at vote.nyc!
Get ready! When the Sun comes, it purges! Happy Summer Solstice!
"Animācijas brīnums notiek tad, kad atsevišķi zīmējumi pārvēršas dzīvos, kustīgos attēlos. Bet kā šie zīmējumi iegūst krāsas? " @signebaumane.com un kolēģi no "Lokomotīves" krāso jauno filmu. kinoraksti.lv/domas/latvij...
Kā Signes Baumanes „Karmiskais mezgls” iegūst krāsas - Kino Raksti
Animācijas režisore un māksliniece Signe Baumane jau labu laiku veido savu trešo pilnmetrāžas animācijas filmu „Karmiskais mezgls / Karmic Knot” un ik p...
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At my Brooklyn animation studio we measure the temperature of our pencils daily. Today they are HOT.
Marjane Satrapi, whose acclaimed graphic novel and animated adaptation 'Persepolis' brought the realities of revolution, exile, and identity to audiences around the world, has died at 56. www.cartoonbrew.com/rip/marjane-satrapi-persepolis-creator-co-director-dies-at-56-262120.html
Marjane Satrapi, 'Persepolis' Creator And Co-Director, Dies At 56
The acclaimed cartoonist, filmmaker, and human rights advocate leaves behind one of the 21st century's early animated masterpieces.
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Each character in KARMIC KNOT has a different color palette to represent their different points of view, but together they still have to form a cohesive ensemble. By what Magic do we get there? Find out in this update on the project's progress! www.karmicknotmovie.com/post/how-kar...
How Karmic Knot Gets Its Colors, June 3, 2026
Dear Backers and Friends,The Magic of Animation is when separate drawings turn into living, moving images. But how do these drawings get their colors? This is an entirely different Magic. We would lik...
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Are we free on a sidewalk? NYC Streetblog asks Law Professor Michael Pollack. "We have our constitutional rights on the sidewalk, and yet the law has limited all of those rights, sometimes in the name of public order, and to protect the adjacent property owners. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/05/18/t...
Talking Headways Podcast: Sidewalk Nation - Streetsblog New York City
Law Professor Michael Pollack on who manages, owns and feels ownership of sidewalks —
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Animation Line Tests invoke a sense of Mystery to me, even my own line tests. Don’t let AI kill t he Mystery and Awe of creating Life with a Pencil.
The biggest NYC Animation Event of the year - ASIFA-East Festival is talking place on Friday, May 22. See the winners get their awards, watch the films and meet the filmmakers at the reception. It is the hottest ticket in town! All you have to do is to RSVP. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-56th-a...
The 56th ASIFA-EAST Awards Ceremony
Join us in person for the 56th ASIFA-EAST Awards Ceremony to celebrate this year's award winning films!
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Everybody knows what Karma is and has an opinion about it ("Karma is a bitch") but do you know what Karmic Knot is? @cartoonbrew.bsky.social #film #animation www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film...
Signe Baumane’s ‘Karmic Knot’ Headlines Fabian&Fred Slate
Producer Fabian Driehorst discusses the film’s financing push, hybrid production style, and growing support from major actors and broadcasters.
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Patriarchy is a particular way of looking at the world. It is embedded in stories we tell and through the stories it seeps into our consciousness and subconscious. You don't change society until you change the stories. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
At Cannes, Women Directors Still Struggle to Break the “Auteur Glass Ceiling”
Eight years after Cate Blanchett, Agnes Varda and other female filmmakers demonstrated on the steps of the Palais, women directors have made some gains across the festival, except in the one section t...
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Latvia may be small but it's cinema rocks the world! After FLOW yet another Latvian film in Cannes - ULYA, directed by Viesturs Kairišs, staring Kārlis Arnolds Avots. Just you wait and see what happens at Oscars this season! @thr.com www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Karlis Arnolds Avots on His ‘Hamlet’ Moment With Croisette Debut ‘Ulya,’ Acting With Soul, Being Told He Was Too Tall and Championing Misfits
The up-and-coming Latvian actor had the idea for and co-wrote the Un Certain Regard film and stars as female basketball legend Uļjana Semjonova. He couldn't sleep until 4 a.m. the night the film got s...
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Sometime small miracles happen and this is one of them: Chris Robinson wrote a good article on Bill Plympton in Cartoon Brew. @cartoonbrew.bsky.social "He inspires thousands of animators to aspire to do the impossible - to make films independently". And fuck AI. www.cartoonbrew.com/animators/ke...
After our GRILL BILL event at Metrograph where I successfully grilled Bill Plympton to medium rare we went to Corner Bar where we hung out with our good friend Meira Blaustein, Woodstock Film Festival Director. Film community rocks! @metrographnyc.bsky.social @woodstockfilmfest.bsky.social
My favorite things about DEVIL WEARS PRADA 1 and 2 is that it is a movie about a work place - it depicts a workplace power dynamics and structures of people working together. You may not like the structures, but they exist in real life. That's all.
Here Cartoon Brew pours their gasoline on our GRILL BILL event at Metrograph. And on top of that - today is Bill Plympton's birthday! Come to celebrate this Saturday at Metrograph! @cartoonbrew.bsky.social @metrographnyc.bsky.social www.cartoonbrew.com/events/bill-...
Metrograph Honors Bill Plympton's 80th With Signe Baumane
Fresh off a Berlin Crystal Bear win for 'Whale 52,' the indie legend faces a friendly onstage roast this Saturday, paired with seven of his shorts.
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“You haven’t lived a worthy life if you haven’t been grilled by Signe Baumane. She will leave you well done for the rest of your life” - - Bill Plympton Come to GRILL BILL at Metrograph on Sat May 2nd! metrograph.com/film/?vista_...
Bill Plympton Grilled (by Signe Baumane) - Now Playing In Theater at Metrograph
Animators Bill Plympton and Signe Baumane in conversation on Saturday, May 2nd
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I'll be giving a friendly grill to Animation Legend Bill Plympton. Saturday, May 2nd, 7PM at Metrograph! Among many other things we will discuss his Cassandraic prediction/mockery of home-grown fascists long before we thought it can happen here in the US. metrograph.com/film/?vista_...
Bill Plympton Grilled (by Signe Baumane) - Now Playing In Theater at Metrograph
Animators Bill Plympton and Signe Baumane in conversation on Saturday, May 2nd
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Finally, a birthday party where everyone is welcome! To celebrate indie animation legend Bill Plympton’s milestone birthday ASIFA-East and the SVA MFA Digital Arts are hosting a ROAST with reception! On Sunday, April 26th at 7PM at the SVA Theater. FREE and open to the public! See you there!
In the light of the upheaval of the last 10 years I came to conclusion that the best way to meet the End of Civilization is just to keep working! If it comes, it will surprise me in the middle of action. If it doesn't come, by working for the Next Day I would have helped to usher the Next Day.
"Shameless" star Cameron Monaghan, who also stars in "My Love Affair With Marriage" has been very busy. Check out what he has been up to! www.looper.com/2130489/what...
What Happened To Cameron Monaghan After Shameless? - Looper
Wondering what happened to Cameron Monaghan after starring in the American adaptation of "Shameless?" We look at what the actor has been up to since.
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Spotted on the streets of Luxembourg. MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE is on the march!
