Films

Laura Di Trapani’s personal and professional body of films. This includes her extensive work on Sesame Street, music videos, and art installations. Her most recent project, Exquisite Corpse, centers a trans-continental courtship and the dance of opposites formed in their attempts to communicate- shown through a variety or collage of disparate animation styles.

Personal

Exquisite Corpse

Within the context of a trans-continental courtship, an East Indian man and an American woman try to find a common thread that can bring them together. Their correspondence becomes a dance of opposites, and like the parlor game from which the title of this film is derived, surprising connections are sometimes made. Other times,  though, the lines of communication miss their mark.

We Three

Busby Berkeley lives again in this homage to The Ink Spots and the Sicilian flag.

Good Grief

A collaboration with performer Susannah Mars, this music video dedicated to her late father, the actor Kenneth Mars, tells of the joy of inheriting his dog.

Alteracion

Video installation that posits that there is a reciprocal relationship between us and the objects we create to surround ourselves with. A collaboration with Susan Haraan and Rachel Hibbard.

Chasing Chimeras Intersititials
I Think I Was an Alcoholic
Jungle Picnic
Reflexions
Cross Ties
Time Warp

Professional

Still from a video featuring a photograph of a woman waving at a camera above her while standing in a drawing of a park.
Still from a video of a phone call featuring a photograph of a woman set inside a drawing of a park on the left, and a photograph of a woman set inside a drawing of a bedroom on the right.

Oregon Lottery Commission
Producer/Director

Still from a video featuring Gordon Elliott digitally edited to appear to be running across a coffee table.
opening for
The Gordon Elliott Show
Director of animation / Animator
A digital drawing featuring a photograph of a fence post that a drawing of a cow has been edited onto to appear to be jumping the fence.
National Dairy Board
Director / Animator
A digital composite image consisting of two hands holding each other in several slightly different positions.
Ease
Employee Assistance Services
Producer/Director

Children’s Television Workshop • Sesame Street
Producer / Director / Animator

A still from a video featuring Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street behind a broken wall, with the word "No" written in the background.
The Word is No
A digital composite image featuring a photograph of a person in a boating outfit holding a spyglass added to a drawing of a theater set piece of a boat, where a red letter "B" is one of the passengers.
Boat (letter “B”)
Digital composite image featuring a photograph of a girl in a bathing suit against a background of whales underwater.
I Can Swim
A Titian composite image featuring a photograph of a wall lit by a sunset, onto which the shadowy outlines of 7 cats have been drawn.
7 Cats
A digital composite image featuring a drawing of several mountains and one gigantic letter "X", which several photographs of hikers have been added on to.
Extraordinary “X”
A digital composite image featuring a photograph of a girl with her arms held forward over a drawing of a city such that it seems she is flying through it.
I Can Fly (imagination)
A digital drawing of a young girl with a superhero cape grabbing an egg out of a bird's nest. She is also carrying a takeout container.
Super Wendy (Don’t overeat)
A digital composite image consisting of a black and white photo of two children playing where their clothes have been digitally colored to be bright and cheerful, and they have been placed against a drawn sky background.
Playground (nutrition)
A digital composite image featuring a photograph of a boy eating an egg, with a drawing of a chicken added over his shoulder, an orange letter "H" in the background, and a border created out of uppercase and lowercase letter "H"s
Holiday Picnic (Letter “H”)
A circular Mandela made of broccoli, then celery, then tomatoes and potatoes, against a green background.
Color Me Carrots
A digital composite image featuring a photograph of a girl in a homemade astronaut helmet over a drawing of the earth as seen from space.
I’m an Astronaut (imagination)
Still from a video featuring a pair of colorful sneakers with their ends split open to resemble talking mouths.
Isadora’s Sneakers
A still from a video of Grover from Sesame Street looking into a puddle.
A digital composite image featuring several celebrities including Whoopi Goldberg
A digital composite image featuring several celebrities.

Monster in The Mirror (an extravaganza of celebrities)

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