Techno-aesthetic explorations: reinterpreting the world through its materialities. Interview with Juan Pablo Zaramella

Abstract

Juan Pablo Zaramella is one of the most prominent animation filmmakers of this time. He works in both advertising and fiction and his favorite technique is stop motion, through which he explores different materialities and expressive possibilities to create worlds, vignettes of alternative universes that interweave with the possibilities of everyday life. His work proposes to look again and experience in another way the limits of reality, between fiction, humor and artistic sensitivity.

In the following lines, we share a brief interview with Juan Pablo Zaramella that reflects on his professional career, his artistic interests, the use of technologies, and the dynamics of the animation industry in Argentina.