Sarah Hanssen

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Working Stiff

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A short documentary about a New York comic strip artist who finds a way to support his own creative work. There's a nice write-up in Indiewire, and you can watch the film there too.

"The artist who takes on a second job becomes, in a sense, his own patron: he decides his work is worthy of support, just as the patron does, but then he himself must go out and raise the cash.” 
from “The Gift” by Lewis Hyde

Directed by Sarah Hanssen
Director of Photography - Erik Dettle 
Editor - Eric Schoenbrunn
Animation Development - Peter Ahern
Animator - Daiana Yurzola
Music - Christopher Bowen
Production Assistant - Charlie Gomez





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