"Yellow Sticky Notes" - Synopsis and About the Director Back to Films

SYNOPSIS

I've just completed editing the animation for my next animated film, Yellow Sticky Notes. Yellow Sticky Notes is an experimental classical animated film with an interesting subtle narrative. 2300 drawings were animated straight ahead on 4x6 inch yellow sticky notes with nothing but a black ink pen. The film looks at my self reflection of major world events through the use of animation meditation. The film blends image, text and music to create a social commentary through animation. I realized that over the last nine years I have been so busy trying to accomplish my daily "to do" lists written on sticky notes that I was ignoring the world around me. So nine years later, I decided to self reflect on events like 911, the tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, etc. by animating on the same sticky notes that caused me to ignore them. The film is 6 minutes long. All that is left to do is send it to Boston where Genevieve Vincent will be creating the film's musical score. I am hoping to have the film completed by October 2007.??
Synopsis:?After realizing that yellow sticky note “to do” lists were consuming his life, filmmaker Jeff Chiba Stearns decided to visually self-reflect on his filmmaking journey by animating on the same sticky notes that caused him to ignore major world events for the last nine years. Animation meditation is blended with image, text, and an original musical score by Genevieve Vincent through the creation of a classically animated experimental film that was drawn straight ahead with only a black ink pen on over 2300 yellow sticky notes.??(copyright 2007 Jeff Chiba Stearns)

JEFF CHIBA STEARNS

Jeff Chiba Stearns is an award-winning Canadian independent animation filmmaker, writer and artist, born in Kelowna, BC. His film work incorporates various techniques - animation, documentary, and experimental. In 2001, he founded Meditating Bunny Studio. His short animated films have screened at film festivals around the world and have been broadcast in Canada by the CBC. In 2005, he completed the award-winning classically animated film, “What Are You Anyways?” The film is an exploration of his life growing up half-Japanese and half-Caucasian in a small Canadian town, and how he dealt with being typecast as a minority and overcame his struggle for self-identity. After creating “What Are You Anyways?” the first animated film that explores Hapa issues, he has become an international spokesperson for mixed-race identity. The film has screened at over 40 international film festivals and won 7 awards including the award for Best Animated Short Subject at the CAEAA's. He has also written articles for national publications and lectured around the world at conferences and universities about mixed-race identity, cultural awareness, animation process, and Hapa issues.

Freeze Frame
465-70 rue Arthur
Winnipeg MB
Canada R3B 1G7
tel/tél: (204) 943-5341
toll free/sans-frais:
1-866-543-3378
fax/téléc:(204)957-5437
info@freezeframeonline.org