Deanna Morse has produced, directed and animated over 100 short film poems
about how we perceive, connect, and communicate to the environment. And how we connect with each other. Deanna has received numerous honors for her teaching and artistic work.
recent work
Departure
2023, 3:03
A response to the lockdown. Travel ended. Stopped. Halted. Screeched to a halt. Memories of travel, cities, connection, exploration, expectation. Suddenly, things flipped, like the old flap boards at train stations. Gone, but remembered.
Container Loss
2022, 2:38
Climate crisis, gyres, garbage patches, natural phenomena, human response, hope, loss, optimism, equanimity, integrity, awareness, and responsibility. Reminders.
Aquarium drive-in movie
2021, 5:32
Three animators share the art we made during lockdown. Pandemic Potluck, Lockdown Shock down, Time Passing, Passing Time, Stepping Out. Somehow the fish never get bored. Nor do we. Short memories, I guess. Polly Wolly Doodlers are we. Time Passing: Passing Time.
Connecting
2020, 2:07
Animation play using Zoom. Much fun and good energy, connecting within this new social space at the start of COVID-19 self-isolation, for way too many months of 2020.
recipe for birds
2020, 2:01
An international collaboration where artist-animators work with kids to make animation on a common theme. This theme: Recipes from your home country. Our Oregon, USA backyard birds are hungry.
Bird Dreams
2015, 1:19
Birds. Nature. Dreams. Each of the above. All of the above. Created as an artist in residence at the Studios of Key West.