The Hour Coat

ABOUT DIRECTOR

Amy Kravitz, a founder of the animation program at Rhode Island School of Design, is known for her poetic animated films and her unique approach to teaching animation. An animator since childhood, she also studied Social Anthropology at Harvard University (BA), and Experimental Animation at CalArts (MFA). Her animation is a testimony to the intimate collaboration between viewer and maker that takes place between each drawing. She explores animation as a distinct language that employs unusual materials, unique spatial expressions, and visual metaphors as its grammar. Her singular teaching methods, developed over five decades of experience, encourage students to develop individual approaches to the medium.