Archive - Paper Films

Summer Vacation

Jun 27 •

Jun 19 •

Happy Accidents

I’ve been making photographic prints this week and the results have been stranger (and in many ways, better) than expected.

Jun 12 •

The Joys of Film

Explorations in analog photography

Jun 5 •

May 2025

5-Day Creativity Challenge

I’ve been working on something exciting with The New York Times over the past few weeks: starting Monday, June 2, they’re launching a 5-Day Creativity…

May 29 •

0:20

Paper Films is coming up on three months, and I wanted to take a moment to say…

May 22 •

Handmade Animations from the Chat

Stop motion, cyanotypes, wigglegrams, and more

May 15 •

Bad-Nice: The Art of Heta-Uma

In Japan in the 1970s, an art movement known as heta-uma began in the underground manga magazine Garo. Heta-uma translates to “bad-nice” or…

May 8 •

0:26

Life on the batture

May 1 •

0:46

April 2025

Stop Motion Studies

Animating Objects

Apr 24 •

1:32

How Not to Plan a Film

Notes from an unfinished animation

Apr 17 •

0:46

Ask me anything

Apr 10 •

#nojs-banner { position: fixed; bottom: 0; left: 0; padding: 16px 16px 16px 32px; width: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; background: red; color: white; font-family: -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px; } #nojs-banner a { color: inherit; text-decoration: underline; } This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please turn on JavaScript or unblock scripts