Rolling Down Like Pele
Mixing Animation and Live action footage, “Rolling Down Like Pele” explores the world of traditional Hula and Chant. Lush oil paintings, water colors and pencil drawings illuminate sections of three Hawaiian dances in unique and surprising ways. The film was inspired in part by time spent with Sissy Kaio and her Halau while participating in a “Dance on Film” fellowship at UCLA.
Directed by: Laura Margulies
Length: 4:50 Minutes
CAFF screening 5/20
Directed by: Laura Margulies
Length: 4:50 Minutes
CAFF screening 5/20
Hepa!
Hepa! exhuberantly visualizes the driving rhythmic pulse of Afro Brazilian dance, capoeira and percussion through animation and live action footage. The colorful animation is hand painted with oil paints on glass and captured on film frame by frame. The dancing is a mixture of Afro Brazilian contemporary dance and traditional Brazilian “Orisha” dances.
Directed by: Laura Margulies
Length: 6:29 Minutes
CAFF screening 5/24
Directed by: Laura Margulies
Length: 6:29 Minutes
CAFF screening 5/24
Laura Margulies
Laura began animating in 1988. She has a BA from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and an MFA in animation from New York University. She has received awards and grants from The Cinedance Film Festival, Broadcast Design, Asifa East, Ann Arbor, Creativity Magazine, New York University, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Dance Films Association, The PEW Charitable Funds etc. Her films have been screened worldwide in film festivals and venues such as Sundance, ReelDance, Ann Arbor, Pacifika, Margaret Mead, Anima Munde, Asifa, USA Film Festival, New York Children’s Film Festival, The Guggenheim Museum, Cardiff International Film Festival, Hawaii International Film Festival, Honolulu Museum of Art, etc. Her commissioned work has aired nationwide on Cartoon Network, PBS, CBS, MTV, VH1, The Sundance Channel etc. Laura has worked as a designer and colorist at MTV Animation on the classics “The Head”, “Beavis and Butthead” and “Daria” and as a freelance illustrator, animator and artist.
Laura taught at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television for thirteen years and was a full time faculty there. In addition she has taught at Pratt Institute, New York Film Academy, The School of Visual Arts in NYC, Punahou School, Iʻolani School, and at Hawaiʻi Women in Filmmaking. Laura has been teaching animation at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in the Academy of Creative Media since 2015. She is currently directing and animating a documentary film for the non-profit organization The Pacific Survivors Center.
Laura began animating in 1988. She has a BA from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and an MFA in animation from New York University. She has received awards and grants from The Cinedance Film Festival, Broadcast Design, Asifa East, Ann Arbor, Creativity Magazine, New York University, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Dance Films Association, The PEW Charitable Funds etc. Her films have been screened worldwide in film festivals and venues such as Sundance, ReelDance, Ann Arbor, Pacifika, Margaret Mead, Anima Munde, Asifa, USA Film Festival, New York Children’s Film Festival, The Guggenheim Museum, Cardiff International Film Festival, Hawaii International Film Festival, Honolulu Museum of Art, etc. Her commissioned work has aired nationwide on Cartoon Network, PBS, CBS, MTV, VH1, The Sundance Channel etc. Laura has worked as a designer and colorist at MTV Animation on the classics “The Head”, “Beavis and Butthead” and “Daria” and as a freelance illustrator, animator and artist.
Laura taught at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television for thirteen years and was a full time faculty there. In addition she has taught at Pratt Institute, New York Film Academy, The School of Visual Arts in NYC, Punahou School, Iʻolani School, and at Hawaiʻi Women in Filmmaking. Laura has been teaching animation at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in the Academy of Creative Media since 2015. She is currently directing and animating a documentary film for the non-profit organization The Pacific Survivors Center.