Signe Baumane introduces “Rocks in My Pockets” & “Teat Beat of Sex” on OVID
Welcome to the seventh installment of OVID’s Author Selects series, where we invite an author to pick a film in OVID’s collection and tell you why they think you should watch it.
This month, Signe Baumane, a Latvian-born, Brooklyn-based independent filmmaker, artist, writer, and animator, presents her films on OVID. Check out My Love Affair With Marriage, Rocks in My Pockets, and her series of 15 episodes, Teat Beat of Sex.
Baumane has made 17 award-winning animated shorts.
Her first animated feature Rocks In My Pockets premiered at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2014 where it received a FIPRESCI Prize. The film went on to over 130 international festivals. It opened theatrically in the U.S. through Zeitgeist Films.
Signe’s new animated feature My Love Affair With Marriage (2022) tells the story of a spirited young woman’s quest for perfect love and lasting marriage. It premiered in June 2022 at Tribeca Festival and has screened at over 90 festivals winning twenty awards. It was nominated by European Film Academy as Best Animated Feature. The film is released in the United States on October 6th, 2023.
Signe is a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow in Film for New York Foundation for the Arts. She has a degree in Philosophy from Moscow State University.
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