Tess Martin

Tess Martin is an animator who has been making her own short films since 2004. Her specialty is back-lit paper cut-outs. She received an Artist Trust GAP Grant, a CityArtist Grant, a Puffin Foundation grant and a 4Culture grant for work on her last film, Plain Face, which premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival in 2011.

Tess Martin is a member of SEAT, Seattle Experimental Animation Team, a loose coalition of filmmakers whose mission is to be a nurturing force for the creation and dissemination of experimental animation. Some other members include Stefan Gruber, Britta Johnson, Web Crowell and Sarah Jane Lapp. She has curated a program of SEAT films titled Inter-Action, which has screened in Seattle and New York City and toured Europe in October 2011.
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