Laura Di Trapani has been creating dreamlike personal films for over thirty years. Her films have been showcased in numerous festivals around the world, including Annecy International and Sundance. She produced more than 20 animated shorts for Children’s Television, including the Sesame Street program for which she received an Emmy and was a featured filmmaker at the Museum of Modern Art.
I am fascinated by the power of metaphor to elucidate concepts and explore ideas in ways that a more blunt approach cannot match. Animation provides a perfect bridge between our perception of the “real” world and the inner world of our dreams, imagination, fears and ideas, and it is never static. As an artist, I am interested in creating films in which emotion is represented visually. I want to create films that convey emotion visually. Animation is well-suited for such endeavors.
