Karen Yasinsky

For Dreaming the Dark: hands that see, eyes that touch, Ana Vaz invited artists and filmmakers whose work trust cinema’s capacity to transform...

Experimental animated film by Karen Yasinsky with music by Thank You

An internalized collage film which started with the found vacation film someone gave to me many years ago. The script I recorded for the film was...

The starting point for Audition was the movement of the stripper across the stage in the red light. I rotoscoped the scene and each frame is hand...

The woman is moving, attending to things, the man watches. Fun products scroll across the screen as a break. We switch lives. The young girl now...

An animated film inspired by all the strangeness and mystery surrounding Dorothy's predicament in the Wizard of Oz: what happened to her parents? Why...

Boys is made with traditional stop motion puppet animation and flash animation. After rough play, two boys fall back into their beanbag chairs to be...

The artist breathes life into handmade dolls as she recreates a scene from Vigo’s L'Atalante.

An animation based on the beginning of the film L'Atalante by Jean Vigo.

Two women together out west. One can't walk. Create a story.

Three people in one emotional bubble encounter three dogs in the natural world.

The starting point was a still from the film Au Hasard Balthazar by Robert Bresson. From there, pure automatism.

Radically deconstructive in its interpretation of a famous Tarkovsky-sequence, Yasinsky reverses the original order of the sequence and blends it...

This animation takes as a starting point the character of Marie in Au Hasard Balthazar by Robert Bresson.

The film originated with thoughts on senseless violence, cultural observation and hypnotism. Many of the images are repurposed, related but unhinged...

Marie is based on the main character in the film Au Hasard Balthazar by Robert Bresson. Music by Brahms, sound by Snacks (Tom Boram and Dan Breen).

A collage film slipping between narrative starts of images and sounds

A character created over the time of animating the cobweb and thinking about Bix Beiderbecke's Mississippi Mud. Additional music by Andrew Bernstein...

Part 2 of No Place Like Home

Images and sounds appear as suggestions and are revisited; clues dispersed. Debby waits in a room not really alone.

Collaboration with Huck Hodge in honor of Galileo.

From an animated spider's web to a bouncing ball in space, and from a Tarkovski image of a Russian horse to a close-up of Victoria Legrand,...