Quickdraw Animation Society
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Daniel Volante

2023 Intermediate Animators Production Residency Recipient

About Daniel Volante

My name is Daniel Volante and I am a Filipino multi-disciplinary artist based in Calgary, with a current focus on experimental animation. Themes in my work include nostalgia, identity, and connection, and I greatly enjoy abstracting past life experiences as a tool to enrich and personalize my art. I am heavily inspired by magical realism and unconventional visual textures, as well as retro video games and the music, aesthetics, and storytelling that stem from them. I hope that my work connects to those still figuring themselves out, especially fellow young people of colour, and inspires them to freely create and live authentically. Other than animation I have experimented with music, theatre, poetry, printmaking, and mural art, and hope to one day revisit these fields and incorporate them into my current practice.

Daniel's Instagram: @danie1angelo

headshot of Daniel Volante. Daniel has short black hair, wears square-rimed glasses and is wearing a thin silver necklace. He is wearing a blue pull-over sweater with antlers on it. Daniel is smiling and holding up his left hand with the "peace" sign. His index finger has a thin gold ring on it

IAPR Film Synopsis:

The project for this residency/[working title] will be a two minute experimental short film that explores distinct events taking place at a teenage house party. Through abstraction and magical realism, the film will put to light the intense feelings of freedom, vulnerability, and intimacy teenagers experience in party settings.