Contact: Hasabie.Kidanu@gmail.com
I grew up in the rapidly urbanizing capital of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and have spent most of my adult years living and working in New York City. I work with film in different ways - some are experimental animations, others documentary style film essays. Literature, folktales, and poetry that speak to metropolises as places of constant flux and embedded history inform my work. The origins of early cinema, experimental filmmakers of the 70s, and surrealist Soviet animators have a great influence on me. I am one fourth of Digital Ancestors, an independent publishing company based in Brooklyn, NY.