Pocket cinema: Blue, Karma, Tiger

Swedish animated documentary about the art of graffiti – Blue, Karma, Tiger by Mia Hulterstam and Cecilia Actis has been made in nowadays rare animation technique…

Synopsis:
An animated, colourful documentary about graffiti. The spraypainters leave their mark on walls, tunnels and trains but we rarely see the person behind the painted name. In the film we meet three unmasked painting girls who tell us why they do it.

Cecilia Actis, born in 1976 in Cordoba (Argentina), studied stage and theater technology in Malmö, Sweden. Director, animator and currently a light technician at the Opera of Copenhagen.

Mia Hulterstam, born 1976 in Linköping (Sweden), studied stage and theater technology in Malmö, Sweden. Director, animator and currently a technician at the Theater of Malmö.

Filmography: 2009 Fäst vid dig/Attached To You (short, co-dir. w. Carin Bräck); 2006 Blue Karma Tiger ; 2003 The Dance of My Text. (bio’s taken from Swedish Film Institute)