Tess Martin
February 2011 - 2012 | e4c
Seattle, WA
Plain Face
Screening February 2012 – 2013
Opening: First Thursday, February 2, 2012 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
4Culture is pleased to welcome back Tess Martin to e4c. This season, we will feature Martin’s latest film, Plain Face. She describes Plain Face as a story where, “In a fantastical land, a stranger arrives and is the subject of prejudice, violence and love. We follow her journey through memory as she decides whether to give up her heart.” The characters and settings of this 10-minute-long short were created using paper and plastic cut-outs, animated frame by frame on a backlit stand. Ink was also painted on the cutouts and animated to create expressive facial features.
About the Artist
Tess Martin is a Seattle-based animator who has been making her own short films since 2004. Her specialty is back-lit paper cut-outs. She has received an Artist Trust GAP Grant, a CityArtist Grant, a Puffin Foundation grant and a 4Culture grant for work on her most recent film, Plain Face, which premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival in 2011. She is a member of SEAT, Seattle Experimental Animation Team, a collective of independent animators. Her previous film (A Moment’s Reverie, a 10 min. stop frame animation) was on display at e4c, 4Culture’s media gallery in Seattle for a year, and has shown at multiple venues around the world. She has run numerous animation workshops with Reel Grrls, Bainbridge Island Television and Longhouse Media.