Resilience and Stamina! Thank you!

Miesa un Gars

Bill Plympton Grilled (by Signe Baumane) - Now Playing In Theater at Metrograph Animators Bill Plympton and Signe Baumane in conversation on Saturday, May 2nd

I'll be giving a friendly grill to Animation Legend Bill Plympton. Saturday, May 2nd, 7PM at Metrograph!
Among many other things we will discuss his Cassandraic prediction/mockery of home-grown fascists long before we thought it can happen here in the US.

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Finally, a birthday party where everyone is welcome!
To celebrate indie animation legend Bill Plympton’s milestone birthday ASIFA-East and the SVA MFA Digital Arts are hosting a ROAST with reception! On Sunday, April 26th at 7PM at the SVA Theater.
FREE and open to the public!
See you there!

SIRAT

Ruszkik haza!

In the light of the upheaval of the last 10 years I came to conclusion that the best way to meet the End of Civilization is just to keep working!
If it comes, it will surprise me in the middle of action.
If it doesn't come, by working for the Next Day I would have helped to usher the Next Day.

What Happened To Cameron Monaghan After Shameless? - Looper Wondering what happened to Cameron Monaghan after starring in the American adaptation of "Shameless?" We look at what the actor has been up to since.

"Shameless" star Cameron Monaghan, who also stars in "My Love Affair With Marriage" has been very busy. Check out what he has been up to!

www.looper.com/2130489/what...

A sticker on a street pole with an image from animated feature film MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE

Spotted on the streets of Luxembourg.
MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE is on the march!

No kings March in NYC

At the NYC NO KINGS MARCH:

My Love Affair With Marriage | Independent Animated Feature Film An award winning independent animated feature film MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE directed by Signe Baumane about a spirited young woman Zelma determined to find love in the bewildering world.

It did - in 2022. Luxembourg is quite late to the party. You can check out where it streams near you here: www.myloveaffairwithmarriagemovie.com

"u know i luv u" - an animated short by Bill Plympton A brand new hand-drawn animated short by Oscar-nominated legend Bill Plympton, set to average friends’ debut single “u know i luv u".

I just backed "u know i luv u" - an animated short by Bill Plympton on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/bil...

"A feminist Firework!" - from the Tageblat review of MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE by Carole Theisen.
The film's theatrical release in Luxembourg starts tomorrow.

Take photos and video and send them here. They will be needed at Nuremberg.

NO KINGS NYC MASS MARCH · No Kings ### We say NO KINGS IN NYC! ** LOCATION ANNOUNCED! ** Meeting place: 7th Avenue and Central Park South in Manhattan ** Time: 2:00 PM March 28th **We have the power and are claiming it together. No...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS NYC MASS MARCH” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

My love affair with marriage film poster on candy package

The sweet taste of MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE theatrical release in Luxembourg!

"u know i luv u" - an animated short by Bill Plympton A brand new hand-drawn animated short by Oscar-nominated legend Bill Plympton, set to average friends’ debut single “u know i luv u".

Animation Legend Bill Plympton:"I don't have a studio deal. I don't have a financier. I have 600 people who prove that independent animation still has an audience".
Check out and support Bill's new project on @kickstarter.com

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bil...

My Love Affaire With Marriage - Beetebuerg

MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE is screening tomorrow in Luxembourg at Ciné Le Paris – Bettembourg, as part of their Mois De La Femme Film!

bettembourg.lu/events/my-lo...

Thank you for your courage to enter that alternative reality

Thank you!

A drawing of 3 hearts

When love rains it pours

An Insider’s Look at Karmic Knot in Berlin - March 4, 2025 Dear Backers and Friends,Signe and Sturgis recently returned from the European Film Market at Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin, Germany. The EFM is one of the largest film markets in the world bringi...

How does an animated feature get financed?

We went to Berlin International Film Festival Co-Production Market to meet producers, co-producers, sales agents and funders to get better versed in poetry of film financing.

Here're our takeaways:

www.karmicknotmovie.com/post/an-insi...

You Should Start A Cinema Club ...and tips for how to do it.

Streamers want you to stay home and watch things alone. That's how they get rich. In this context going to CINEMA to watch movies with friends is a form of Resistance.
Thank you, Thomas Flight, for tips on how to start a Cinema Club!
@thomasflight.nebula.tv
www.seeingthroughfilm.com/p/you-should...

A drawing of a knife pointing at a woman

She leans back and feels a knife pointing at her.

When in Berlin do the East West thing.

Man - jaa

The year of the fire horse

Only one week into the Year of the Fire Horse and we already have more fire in our step.
(Also 2 days ago my studio building had a brush with fire when someone in the sweatshop below us forgot to turn an iron off)

What’s Behind the Centrists’ Resistance to the “Resistance Liberals”? They’re acknowledging now that the people who called Trump a “fascist” were right. But somehow we’re still not to be trusted.

The New Republic article explores why thousands of Cassandras were ignored in 2015 - 2016 by the "political experts".
@thenewrepublic.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2060...

Berlinale Immediately Gets Heated at Jury Presser as President Wim Wenders Asserts “We Have to Stay Out of Politics” "We are the counterweight of politics, the opposite of politics, we have to do the work of people — not the work of politicians," said the legendary filmmaker at the first Berlin Film Fest press confe...

In increasingly political world this is an odd thing for a filmmaker to say. In particular, women rights at the moment is a political battlefield. For a woman filmmaker just the act of making a film, any film, is a political act.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Baltic Film magazine explores what makes Latvian, Estonian and Lithuanian films so special. One of the interviewees was me! Thank you, Kristīne Simsone!
@kinoraksti.bsky.social
@latvijasradio.bsky.social

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