Selkie the Seal Woman

SELKIE is our second fairy-doc a film blending live and 2D stop motion animation, 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; Bridget Cleary who was burned in 1895 by her husband who thought she was a changeling and a story of Annie Hogg, Bridget’s great great grandniece who is an artist living in Tipperary, Ireland 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)

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

Elena Kalkova, Visual Editing, Collage artist, (Russia/NYC)
is a multimedia artist and researcher of Eastern European Art History. she explores feminism and construction of gender in the Post-Soviet space. Artist, MFA School of Visual Art.

featuring Annie Hogg as Selkie, Bridget Cleary and herself