Signe Baumane

DirectorWriterAnimation Department

Awards: 28 wins, 56 nominations

Signe Baumane is a Latvian-born, Brooklyn-based independent filmmaker, artist, writer, and animator. She has made 16 award-winning animated shorts and is best known for her first animated feature "Rocks in my Pockets". The film covers a 100-year history of depression and suicide of women in her…

Biography

Signe Baumane is a Latvian-born, Brooklyn-based independent filmmaker, artist, writer, and animator. She has made 16 award-winning animated shorts and is best known for her first animated feature "Rocks in my Pockets". The film covers a 100-year history of depression and suicide of women in her family, including herself. It premiered at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2014 where it received a FIPRESCI Award. "Rocks in my Pockets" went on to over 130 international festivals and opened theatrically in the U.S. through Zeitgeist Films.

Signe's new animated feature "My Love Affair With Marriage" fuses animation with music, theater, science, photography, three-dimensional sets and traditional hand-drawn animation to tell the story of a spirited young woman's quest for perfect Love and lasting Marriage. "My Love Affair With Marriage" premiered at Tribeca Festival 2022.

Signe is a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow in Film for New York Foundation for the Arts. She has a degree in Philosophy from Moscow State University.

Director

My Love Affair with Marriage(2022)

Mother's Song(2019)

Rocks in My Pockets(2014)

Cousin Joe Twoshacks: Tarzan(2014)

Teat Beat of Sex(2009)

Writer

My Love Affair with Marriage(2022)

Mother's Song(2019)

Rocks in My Pockets(2014)

Cousin Joe Twoshacks: Tarzan(2014)

Teat Beat of Sex(2009)

Actress

Teat Beat of Sex(2009)

Teat Beat of Sex(2008)as Narrator

Karmic Knotas Narrator

Producer

My Love Affair with Marriage(2022)

Rocks in My Pockets(2014)

The Very First Desire Now and Forever(2008)

Love Story(1999)

Cinematographer

Teat Beat of Sex(2009)

Birth(2009)

The Witch and the Cow(1991)

Editor

Mother's Song(2019)

Rocks in My Pockets(2014)

Cousin Joe Twoshacks: Tarzan(2014)

Teat Beat of Sex(2009)

Birth(2009)

Production Designer

Rocks in My Pockets(2014)

Teat Beat of Sex(2009)

Five F*cking Fables(2002)

I Married a Strange Person!(1997)

Art Director

Set Decorator

My Love Affair with Marriage(2022)

Production Manager

Teat Beat of Sex(2009)

I Married a Strange Person!(1997)

Art Department

Guide Dog(2006)

Hair High(2004)

12 Tiny Christmas Tales(2001)

Mutant Aliens(2001)

Surprise Cinema(1999)

Camera and Electrical Department

My Love Affair with Marriage(2022)

Mutant Aliens(2001)

Animation Department

My Love Affair with Marriage(2022)

Twillerama(2014)

Rocks in My Pockets(2014)

Latching On(2009)

Teat Beat of Sex(2009)

Editorial Department

My Love Affair with Marriage(2022)

Additional Crew

Cartoon Sushi(1997)

Sex and Violence(1997)

Thanks

Court-circuit(2001)

18th Annual Animation Show of Shows(2016)

Only Love(2008)

Piper the Goat and the Peace Pipe(2005)

Self

Court-circuit(2001)as Self

Días de cine(1991)as Self - Interviewee

Rocks in My Pockets(2014)as Self, narrator

Adventures in Plymptoons!(2011)as Self

ABSigne: An Alphabetical Portrait of Signe Baumane(2011)as Self

Known for

My Love Affair with Marriage2022 · Director Rocks in My Pockets2014 · Director Teat Beat of Sex2008 · Director Five F*cking Fables2002 · Director

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