Anna Glasman is a mixed media illustrator and animator. Her work includes bookmaking, printmaking, and set design. Anna’s practice is narrative driven, with an interest in children’s stories, stories from childhood, and stories of the home. Anna uses a variety of different mediums in her work such as mono-printing on fabric, etching, screen-printing, and model-making. Her work focuses on people and locations, the interaction of characters within those spaces and the stories that both can tell.
In her stop-motion animated short film, ‘Not Another Bat-Mitzvah!’, Anna uses a combination of drawing, mono-printing, and 3D model sets to create a tactile visual space, as shown in the photographs above. The film explores the social pressures that an adolescent daughter is experiencing, to look and dress well for multiple parties, through the mother and daughter’s verbal exchange. The film uses the space of the home, which is featured as a character in and of itself, to tell the story. Their dialogue is heard from a hallway and a flight of stairs – their environment reacts to their words and moods; a clock ticks as time is running out; leaves fall off the trees or shoots emerge out of branches like hair growth; and text appears up and down the bannisters in response to the girl’s anguish and the mother’s frustration.
