Bridget Johnson
Bridget Johnson
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"Brooklyn" by Elizabeth P.W.
Potato Taco Films created this beautiful stop motion animated music video for Brooklyn artist, Elizabeth P.W. Exploring loneliness, memory, and family, Elizabeth tells the story of her deep roots in Brooklyn. We use our signature stop motion style to bring this story to life.
Short Film Series
Potato Tacos and The Morenci Mine
Through the lens of a unique Mexican-American culture in one of the oldest migrant hubs in the U.S., my mixed-medium installation, Potato Tacos and the Morenci Mine, will unveil the long history of institutionalized racism against the brown people of this region--those native to the land and seeking refuge. With hand drawn animations, family photos, and interviews with my relatives living in Clifton, I will bring important stories to life with collage-style animated documentary vignettes. Each animated story will be surrounded by photos and illustrations of the relevant home space. This will give the audience the sense of being in a Mexican-American household, complete with images of Jesus, fly swatters, and serapes.
The Relic is Right
July 20, 2023
Vogue
New York–based performance artist and composer (and perfumer!) Ziemba, aka René Kladzyk, has always been interested in creating distinct worlds: She described her recent performance at MoMA PS1 as a “multisensory musical and feminist sci-fi experiment” that was borne out of a collision between two dying stars. And her latest music video for “The Relic Is Right,” a song from her Lala EP, is similarly dramatic (the EP drops today in advance of Ziemba’s Valentine’s Day show with Ssion at Brooklyn’s Secret Project Robot). It features handmade sets and costumes made by Ziemba and artist Stewart Losee, and depicts a tragic fairy tale in which a maiden finds her way into a cursed spider’s den.
#1 Music Video of 2017
Sawdust and Gin
Sawdust and Gin
Like most of Ziemba’s body of work, her new video for “El Paso” is dense and significant. She explained how the city impacted her life as a borderlander, or more specifically as a “child of NAFTA,” which instigated her family’s move to Texas in the first place; all this personal history she describes in the clip via yellow text scrawled across the screen. The video complements the song with bold colors and quick cuts, with editing help from Bridget Johnson, and also serves to educate us about a place that most of us never think about despite its likely pivotal role in many of our lives.