Selkie the Seal Woman

SELKIE is a fairy-doc - an experimental film blending stop motion animation of live actors and 2D puppets; hand drawn characters and backgrounds, photo collages and documentary. It combines stories of three women: a mythical Selkie – woman-seal from an old Irish fairytale; a hatmaker Bridget Cleary burned in 1895 by her husband who thought she had turned into a changeling and a story of Annie Hogg, Bridget’s great great grandniece who is an artist living in Tipperary, Ireland today with her dog Archie, making art of charred objects, like roots and animal bones.

Irina Patkanian - Writer, Director, Editor (Russia/NYC)

Marion Schoevaert - Production and Character Designer, Lead Artist, Director (France/NYC)

Denise Conroy, Artist Illustrator (Ireland)

Finola Merivale - Composer, Pianist, Sound Artist (Ireland/NYC)

Masha Yukhananov Animator (Russia /NYC)

Elena Kalkova, Visual Editing, Collage artist, (Russia/NYC)

featuring Annie Hogg as Selkie, Bridget Cleary and herself