Caitlin Craggs

Caitlin Craggs is an animator and multidisciplinary artiste living in Brooklyn. She directs “bona fide weird” animation for music videos, documentary and TV. Her practice weaves together many modes of film and art making: stop-motion, collage, studio-photography, drawing, puppetry, clowning, dance, projection, trick-film, practical effects and live-action. Recent work engages with narrativizing the anthropocene, interspecies communication and collaboration, and the aesthetics of curiosity.

Caitlin's animated eco-comedy series “Insexcapades” was workshopped through the 2019 Sundance YouTube New Voices Lab. Her experimental essay film “The corn doesn’t pay the corn” was invited to the 2019 Film Lab at SPACE on Ryder Farm. Her surreal short film “Are you tired of forever?” received the Grand Jury Prize for Best Experimental Short at Slamdance (2018) and Best Student Work on Screen at Images (2018). Caitlin's work has been featured on the New York Times, The Atlantic and Cartoon Brew, and has received Vimeo Staff Picks for the short films “Tomato,” a meditation on veggies and colonialism, and “Touch,” a commission for an educational animated series about neurobiology and the senses. As an undergraduate, she was a Princess Grace Grantee for her animated film “Lintscape,” a stop-mo flick about killer lint. She holds an MFA in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts.