Zosia Kochanski is a self-taught semi-traditional animator who creates short films, animated content and music videos.
She utilizes a combination of scanned traditional drawings on paper, Adobe PS, and FCPX via a Huion Q11K tablet.
Alongside hand-drawn animation, her pieces often integrate video textures and multi-media collage.
Wishbone’s award-winning first short film HERE I’M was self-produced in 2021 and a companion to her
2020 exploratory album French Of The Bird.
Her work contains themes and symbols of wild femininity, coyotes and wolves, water, flight, speed and intensity, transformative emotion and internal landscapes, solo travel, D Boon and Mike Watt’s jamming econo, highly-saturated colors and the coyote’s realm of wise foolishness. Within many of her films she experiments with techniques of reproducing dream imagery and emotional textures.
As a lifelong musician she has a special love for the mixed media ethos of well-made music vids. Her visuals augment the audio they accompany, aiming to allow both mediums to harmoniously speak in conversation without stepping on each others’ toes.
Her music videos have been shown at numerous film and animation festivals in North America and Europe including:
Ridgewood Off-Kilter Film Festival, 2024
Ottawa International Animation Festival, Canada, 2020
Paris International Animation Film Festival, France, 2022
Cinanima, Portugal, 2022
Children’s Film Festival Seattle, USA, 2022
Providence Childrens Film Festival, USA, 2022
Stoptrik International Film Festival, Slovenia, 2022
FAM Fest, USA, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Anifilm, Czech Republic, 2021
Some artists she’s collaborated with include:
Lori McKenna and Stephen Wilson Jr.
Alastair Moock
Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters
Swinging Steaks
Tundrastomper
Fred Cracklin
Carrie Ferguson
Cloudbelly
The Blue Ribbons
Chris Goudreau
Lexi Weege and Jake Slater
To get in touch with Zosia about collaborations, booking and rates, contact wishbonezoe@gmail.com
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