{"id":37949,"date":"2020-02-06T11:46:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T11:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/?p=37949"},"modified":"2020-02-17T13:36:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T13:36:28","slug":"elizabeth-hobbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/elizabeth-hobbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Elizabeth Hobbs (“I’m OK”)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In the latest episode of our podcast we meet UK-based director\/animator Elizabeth Hobbs<\/a>, whose 2018 short film I’m OK<\/em><\/a>, produced with the National Film Board of Canada and Animate Projects, explores the passionate and tempestuous love affair between Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka and his lover Alma Mahler. Taking cues from the real life events of his enlistment to fight in the First World War following their breakup, I’m OK<\/em> depicts a feverish onslaught of visions, yearnings and memories of their time together as he awaits medical aid when near-fatally shot in the head (Kokoschka would survive the wound and go on to live until 1980).<\/p>\n

Known for experimental approaches and an enthusiasm for analogue processes when creating her work, Elizabeth’s filmography includes 2007’s The Old, Old, Very Old Man<\/a><\/em> made with blue ink on bathroom tile, 2013’s Imperial Provisor Frombald<\/a><\/em> created using hand-carved rubber stamps and 2016’s G-AAAH<\/a><\/em> animated with a typewriter. For I’m OK<\/em> Elizabeth has drawn on Oscar Kokoschka\u2019s writing, paintings and prints as a stylistic influence, capturing the images directly under a rostrum camera using ink and paint on paper while still wet. and ultimately forming the narrative of the overall film during the editing phase of production.<\/p>\n