Miwa Matreyek. Dreaming of Lucid Living

MIWA MATREYEK is an award-winning animator, designer, and multi-media artist working in the LA area. She creates animated short films as well as works that integrate animation and live performance/installation via projection. She is interested in how animation transforms when it is combined with body and space (and vice-versa) and takes on a more physical and present quality, while body and space take on a more fantastical quality.

Her solo video-performance, Dreaming of Lucid Living, won the Princess Grace Award for Film, as well as two awards at the Platform International Animation Festival: Student Grand Prix and Audience Choice Award for Best Installation (source). Dreaming of Lucid Living is also her thesis in the CalArts Experimental Animation program.

I’m not entirely sure how it was made, but it seems to combine live performance with both pre-made animations as well as semi-autonomous, rule based animations that update based on what a camera is seeing.

Beautiful! Now I'm a real fan of MIWA and if you are wise, I will show you her excellent show reels ;-)