Watch free video Famous People by Dustin Grella

Grella makes his films by recording pastel drawings and erasures on a sometimes-wet, sometimes-chalky slate. His animations are the lively associations he makes to slices of conversation. He calls making those connections a dangerous game of visual problem solving punctuated by the fear “is someone going to get mad as I do this?” But his intimate call-and-response likely leaves his speakers feeling heard.