Episode Details

While Bouchra's on its world tour, I got to meet creative producers John Michael Boling and Jason Coombs who enlightened me as to why Funko Pops are a scourge on our society.  See Bouchra at Metrograph through to July 2nd or catch it in a city near you soon!   Wrestling with writer’s block for her first film, Bouchra, a queer Moroccan jackal living in NYC, starts having difficult yet overdue phone calls with her mother in Casablanca that begin influencing the project. Balancing the precarity of working as an artist in the United States, the rift in her identity between her two homes and an array of friendships and romantic interests, Bouchra’s emotional reckoning with her mother and herself becomes her path to expression.   

Links to points of discussion (will update shortly!):

• Bouchra screening at Metrograph - NYC
• Bouchra's website
• John Michael Boling's Instagram
• Jason Coombs' Instagram
• 2 Lizards Instagram
• The Animator's Animations
• The Animator's Favorites
• Telfar
• Fondazione Prada - Italy
• The Animator's Playlist on Apple Music and Spotify
• Cynthia Chu on The Animator's Friend
• Twin Peaks LogPosting on Facebook
• The Animator's Friend on Instagram

The Animator's Friend is hosted by India Lombardi-Bello, an educator based in New York City. In this series, India creates a platform where animators get to talk about themselves outside the context of their work. A questionnaire format, inspired by the 24 frames per second of animation, allows for personal, lighthearted, and unexpected conversation.

Credits:

• Recorded, produced, and edited by India Lombardi-Bello
• Digital marketing assistance from Arnesh Kundu
• Music by Cloutmeyer
• Design by Sawyer Rippon
• All opinions belong to the guests and do not represent any other individual or entity