Varya Yakovleva - Animated movies for troubled times

The guest of this episode of HOBO is Varya Yakovleva, a Russian animator now based in France. She spent 6 years at The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, a film school in Moscow, then 2 years at the SHAR School-Studio with leading directors and animators.

From 2013 she worked with Andrey Khrzhanovsky for a stop motion film called The Nose or the Conspiracy of Mavericks.

Nowadays she does her own stuff, mostly animation films, the latest of which is Oneluv: a powerful and visually strong portrait of a woman needing to face unwanted strangers and abuse. The short film took top honors at last year’s Animafest Zagreb.