School Holidays: Animate Your Dreams

Eleanor & Giovanni

Giovanni Aguilar Gutierrez is originally from Barranquilla Colombia, he is a passionate artist and musician. Giovanni studied graphic design at Universidad Autónoma del Caribe in Barranquilla. After graduating Giovanni worked as a graphic design teacher, illustrator and art director.

Eleanor is a Canberra based artist who is passionate about combining animation and music into one seamless art form. This interest has taken her to a place she never expected, developing mathematical equations to combine music and animation into loops and audiovisual polyrhythms.

Eleanor and Giovanni met in 2016 while studying animation in Barcelona, where they both graduated with Masters in Stop Motion Animation from the University of Central Catalonia, BAU design College. Since moving to Canberra at the beginning of 2019 they have been working together on various projects in their home studio. In 2019 their music video Imaginé won best music video at the Canberra short film festival and best national music video at the Bogota music video awards.

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