 Genevieve Anderson received a BFA from the University of California at Santa Barbara, CA, where she minored in sociology and phenomenology. She subsequently studied and then worked with acclaimed movement theater artists James Donlon and Sigfrido Aguilar nationally and internationally. She has created theater with the Los Angeles Mental Health Association, worked with Guerilla Theater (Santa Barbara) Kitchen Theater (Los Angeles), and wrote two original plays in conjunction with Stand Theaterworks. She bases her film work on the primary tenets of movement theater: raw imagination, ingenuity, and a deconstruction of the ordinary to find the essence of experience. She combines these principles in a technique of puppet animation she calls “live animation” because it incorporates elements from stop-motion animation and classic live action. Her films have played at over seventy-five festivals worldwide, and have won awards in Berlin, Chicago, Seattle, and Rhode Island, among others. In her 13 years in Los Angeles, she has worked for the Mark Taper Forum, Women in Film, and currently production manages for acclaimed video artist Bill Viola. She is co-founder of G.R.I.T (Girls Reeling It Together), a non-profit organization of women filmmakers who assist and support one another in the film industry. Her puppetry has lead to work in commercials (Target), music videos (Paul Simon), and an album cover for celebrated jazz artist James Carney. In 2002 she, her brother, and mother formed Anderson Co., a family business creating one-of-a-kind puppets in handcrafted boxes.
Genevieve received the prestigious Rockefeller Media Artists Grant in 2004 for development of her current project, Too Loud A Solitude, a feature film made entirely with puppets, based on the Czech novella of the same title. |
