Film Screening at New Bedford Film Festival: Ball Lightning
Lesley University Associate Professor Catriona Baker's film, Ball Lightning, which was created in collaboration with Lesley, will be screened at the New Bedford Art Museum! Join us to celebrate and attend an additional panel discussion "Women Behind the Camera".
Ball Lightning is a nearly 12-minute experimental fine art, frame-by-frame 2D animation. Both a memoir and biography, it is a personal narrative about a child's love for a surrogate parent and that parent's love in return. It tells the story of Gusta, a refugee forced to give away her infant daughter as she fled East Germany at the end of WWII, who becomes the motherly caregiver to the narrator. She serves as a role model and example of survival, resilience and kindness. The film has won “Best Animation” in the Brussels World Film Festival and the Chicago Filmmakers Awards.
Saturday, April 12th, 11am - 12:30pm
Screening: New Bedford Art Museum, 608 Pleasant St., New Bedford, MA 02740
Panel discussion "Women Behind the Camera": Harbour Hotel, 222 Union Street New Bedford, MA 02740
Catriona Baker, Associate Professor of Animation and Illustration at Lesley University's College of Art and Design, is a fine art experimental animator, book artist, and painter. Her work focuses on issues of social justice such as sexual assault, domestic violence, trauma, immigration, and women empowerment. Her work explores the visual juxtaposition between traditional mediums and digital processes. Her Animations range in mediums from 3D, 2D digital to hand drawn/painted frame by frame animation.
Catriona holds a BA from Mount Holyoke College in Studio Art: printmaking, a BFA from Maine College of Art in painting and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in animation and painting. Her works have been shown nationally and internationally in screenings, galleries, and corporate collections. Her animations have been internationally recognized with an International Platinum Pixie and two International CINDY (Cinema in Industry) awards.