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    Tess Martin

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    Location

    United States (USA)


    Website

    www.tessmartinart.com

    Bio

    Tess Martin is an artist/animator based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, with an international background that includes Seattle, USA. Her films and installations have displayed at galleries and festivals worldwide. 

    Works

    They Look Right Through You

    • 2013
    • Tess Martin

    Whether cat people or dog people, we all think we have relationships with our pets. But do our pets feel the same way?

    They Look Right Through You

    Mario

    • 2014
    • Tess Martin

    This paint on glass animation tells this dark tale of a soldier who returns home from war to find his girlfriend has left him.

    Mario

    The Lost Mariner

    • 2014
    • Tess Martin

    The Lost Mariner is an animated interpretation of Dr. Oliver Sacks' case study found in his book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.

    The Lost Mariner

    Part of the Cycle

    • 2013
    • Tess Martin

    This animated short uses ink and liquids to explain how water reaches our homes, how we change it, and how we clean it.

    Part of the Cycle

    A Walk in the Woods

    • 2012
    • Tess Martin

    Beware the forest, beautiful yet treacherous.

    A Walk in the Woods

    Hula Hoop

    • 2012
    • Tess Martin

    A girl with a hula hoop becomes a goldfish becomes the Earth itself.

    Hula Hoop

    The Whale Story

    • 2012
    • Tess Martin

    A fisherman experiences a moment of connection with a female humpback whale in the waters off of San Francisco.

    The Whale Story

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