A selection of work from 2024
Short film by Julie Zammarchi
Elsa Schiaparelli was a fashion designer born into an aristocratic Italian family. She worked in the 1920’s and 30’s in Paris. Her designs from that time are still considered modern today.
This film is an unreliable account of Elsa’s life as seen through the eyes of her childhood imagination. Did these things actually happen? Or is the life of the artist already present in their early imaginings; turning an imperfect childhood into inspiration for their art.
An animated film depicting a woman traveling in a car toward her own death. Along the way, memories, dreams and visions crowd her consciousness.
Directed by Julie Zammarchi
Sound design by P. Andrew Willis
A real life story narrated by Alex Landau and Patsy Hathaway for StoryCorps. Alex, an African American man, was raised by his adoptive white parents to believe that skin color didn’t matter. But when Alex was pulled over by Denver police officers one night in 2009, he lost his belief in a color-blind world—and nearly lost his life. Alex tells his mother, Patsy, what happened that night and how it affects him to this day.
Client: StoryCorps
Directed by: Julie Zammarchi and Gina Kamentsky
Animation: Julie Zammarchi, Gina Kamentsky, Temah Nelson
A real life story narrated by Patrick Haggerty for StoryCorps. Patrick grew up the son of a dairy farmer in rural Dry Creek, Washington, during the 1950s. As a teenager, Pat began to understand he was gay—something he thought he was hiding well. But one day, after performing at a school assembly, Pat learned that his father could see him much more clearly than he realized.
Client: StoryCorps
Directed by: Julie Zammarchi
Storyboard: Julie Zammarchi and Gina Kamentsky
Animation: Julie Zammarchi, Rebecca Raeder, Jesse Strauss and Tammy Kim
An animated film which depicts the disturbing nightly ritual of a married couple.
Directed by Julie Zammarchi
Music by Caleb Sampson
Based on a poem by Russell Edson
A StoryCorps short. Wendell Scott was the first African American inducted in the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, he poured his heart, soul, and all of his earnings into maintaining his own race car. His son, Frank, remembers what it took for his father to cross the finish line at racetracks throughout the South.
Client: StoryCorps
Directed by: Julie Zammarchi
Storyboard: Jesse Strauss
Design: Julie Zammarchi & Jesse Strauss
Animation: Rebecca Raeder & Thomas Crew
Backgrounds: Tammy Kim
Animated segment to the song 25 Minutes to Go by Johnny Cash. Created for the documentary, Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison directed by Bestor Cram.
Client: Northern Light Productions
Animation directed by Julie Zammarchi
Reverend James Seawood remembers growing up in the racially segregated south of the 1950's. With the landmark ruling in the case, Brown v. The Board of Education, public schools were forced to integrate. The response in Sheridan, Arkansas was to force the black families out of town.
This is a StoryCorps animation created by myself and a great crew.
Producers @ StoryCorps: Rachel Hartman, Daniel Sitts
Directed by Julie Zammarchi
Storyboard: Richard Ferguson-Hull
Background art: Tammy Kim
Animation: Rebecca Raeder, Thomas Crew, and Alex Horan
A loop experiment thinking about separation, attraction and the blurring of boundaries between selves.
Sound design by P. Andrew Willis.
Animated music video for Australian folk duo, The Weeping Willows
