Bio

Lisa Morse is a BFA graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Primarily a printmaker, Morse got her first taste of animation doing artwork for “The Moody Brood” (1999, dir. Lulu Keating). Morse has since studied under animator Helen Hill and filmmaker Helen Bredin.

Works

The Importance of Hortense

  • 2009
  • Lisa Morse

Hortense Gordon was a teacher as well as an artist, and studied abstract painting under one of the great teachers of that movement, Hans Hoffman. Researching Hortense turned up as much about her teachings (and, by extension, Hoffman's) and philosophies as her work, so in the end I felt I was working through the film as a pupil. These are my exercises.

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