Experiencing Interruptions?

Birds and Sirens

This film reflects the sounds heard during the pandemic, the loss of life and the hope for the future.

  • Deborah Yasinsky
    Director
    Metallic Alice, Forest, and Birth
  • Tzvi Kalb
    Music
    Metallic Alice, Forest, and Birth
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes 3 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 18, 2020
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Deborah Yasinsky

Deborah Yasinsky is a multi-media artist. She explores issues of childhood and memory. She received her MFA in painting from Lehman College, CUNY an MS, Ed in Museum Education from Bank Street College of Education, a BA in Fine Arts from Stern College, YU, and an AAS is Textile/Surface Design from FIT. Deborah has exhibited at coral Gables Museum, Paradice Palase Gallery, Dominican University, YU Museum Education Department, Hot Cabinet, CUNY Film Festival, Riverfront Art Gallery, Trestle Online Gallery, 14th Street Y Gallery, Greenpoint Gallery, BWAC, Urban Studio Unbound, Blue Door Gallery, Pubic Appliance, YAW, and Purchase College PC4. She is curating an upcoming exhibition, Beasts Like Me: Feminism and Fantasy at Bronx Art Space in the Fall of 2020. Deborah lives and works in the Bronx in NYC.

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Director Statement

My work explores memory, vulnerability and trauma. I am interested in the complex and timeless experiences that women share in relationships between their parenting and their own childhoods. My paintings, ceramics, films and printmaking incorporate ephemeral imagery that replays narratives of youth, often only fragments of memories and experiences. My work also has an environmental component. I set figures amidst flora and fauna in the landscape remembered from when I was a child, along the Hudson River, the Palisades and Inwood Hill Park. Memories of the Cloisters inspire references to medieval ornamentation and Victorian objects. I use beads, rhinestones, jewelry and glitter, both reminiscent of exploring my mother’s jewelry box and historical, ritual objects in Jewish and Catholic traditions.