Private Project

Tease

Tease is an almost-erotic micro short experimental animation exploring anticipation. True to its theme, no conclusions or climaxes are reached.

Tease is an experiment by a young queer woman film-maker to push the bounds of how sex and sexy are treated in film.

  • Oona Taper
    Director
  • Oona Taper
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    1 minute 14 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 14, 2018
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Hot Bits Queer Erotic Film Festival
    Philadelphia, PA
    United States
    March 23, 2018
    World Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Anilogue International Animation festival
    Budapest
    Hungary
    Official Selection
  • LINOLEUM animation festival
    Kyiv
    Ukraine
    Official Selection
  • SIP Post-Porn Projections
    Montréal
    Canada
  • Crema Helada
    Tijuana
    Mexico
    Official Selection
  • Art All Night-Trenton
    Trenton
    United States
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Oona Taper

Oona Taper is a multimedia artist and experimental animator with a cohesive artistic practice that spans two-dimensional works, videos and installations.

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She grew up in Bozeman MT before attending school at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University. In Boston, she studied sociocultural anthropology and fine art. After Graduation she moved to Philadelphia where she continued to make short films as well as expanding her printmaking practice.

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Her style is both whimsical and chaotic, utilizing distorted but recognizable figures, a strong use of sound and a mixed media approach to address themes of intimacy, technology, physical space and subjective experiences.

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Her short films have been screened at national and international film festivals, including the IVY Film Festival in Providence RI and Locomoción an Experimental Animation Festival in Mexico City. Her video installations and works on paper have been shown in galleries in both Boston and Philadelphia.

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