Part of the 2025 Manchester Animation Festival

MAF is delighted to welcome Anna Ginsberg, one of the most innovative and exciting animation directors in the industry, to the stage at MAF 2025.

Anna’s artist talk, “Talking Genitals, the Oldest Women in the World and embracing your inner Hag” is “an honest account of my creative process — both technical and conceptual. From my love of music video, animated documentary and the mixing of traditional and digital animation techniques to the formation of my first short film Private Parts. This animated documentary (involving real voice recorded interviews visualised as talking vaginas and penises) was a real turning point for my career. I will explain where my desire to make it came from and the process.

In the summer of 2017 my little sister was hospitalised with Anorexia for the 3rd time, after 8 years of struggling with the disease. I will discuss how witnessing her suffering got me thinking about beauty ideals and examine how fast the definition of beauty changes, resulting in my film for International Women’s Day 2018 – What is Beauty?.

I will address the longterm impacts of making commercial art and will finish by sharing a peek at my new film HAG , the most ambitious and personal project of my career thus far!”