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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 16/09/2026

This summer we had 2 interns through Tongal's Mentorship Program. Afterwards they shared their thoughts on the experience. Some of their take-aways surprised us! Here's the article: tongal.com/blog/article...

Inside Signe Baumane Studio surrounded by sets - producer Sturgis Warner, Art Assistant Avery Vang, Intern Sandra Suarez, Art Assistant Nicole Altan, Director Signe Baumane.

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 07/07/2026

Making sense of my sketches and animating for KARMIC KNOT often feels like a tango: two steps forward, three steps backward, five to the side. Then, suddenly, some of it comes to LIFE!

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 29/06/2026

Greenpoint Film Festival will screen my short BIRTH on August 7th at 5PM, with a Q&A to follow - I'll answer your questions about the film and my path in animation. Afterwards, we can all go out to celebrate MY birthday! tickets.greenpointfilmfestival.org/schedule/pro...

A young woman is being pulled by her umbilical cord through an eye of a needle

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 22/06/2026

May the thousand Suns purge this place! Happy SUMMER SOLSTICE!

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 19/06/2026

Get ready! When the Sun comes, it purges! Happy Summer Solstice!

The Sun pulls out a shadows rabbit from a man in a dentist chair.

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 12/06/2026

At my Brooklyn animation studio we measure the temperature of our pencils daily. Today they are HOT.

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 08/06/2026

The news sometimes are ironic or symbolic, not sure which. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 22/05/2026

My studio shelves are filling up with sets!

Shelves filled with sets for stop motion feature film

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 18/05/2026

Animation Line Tests invoke a sense of Mystery to me, even my own line tests. Don’t let AI kill t he Mystery and Awe of creating Life with a Pencil.

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 09/05/2026

Sometime small miracles happen and this is one of them: Chris Robinson wrote a good article on Bill Plympton in Cartoon Brew. @cartoonbrew.bsky.social "He inspires thousands of animators to aspire to do the impossible - to make films independently". And fuck AI. www.cartoonbrew.com/animators/ke...

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 06/05/2026

After our GRILL BILL event at Metrograph where I successfully grilled Bill Plympton to medium rare we went to Corner Bar where we hung out with our good friend Meira Blaustein, Woodstock Film Festival Director. Film community rocks! @metrographnyc.bsky.social @woodstockfilmfest.bsky.social

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 13/04/2026

Finally, a birthday party where everyone is welcome! To celebrate indie animation legend Bill Plympton’s milestone birthday ASIFA-East and the SVA MFA Digital Arts are hosting a ROAST with reception! On Sunday, April 26th at 7PM at the SVA Theater. FREE and open to the public! See you there!

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 30/03/2026

Spotted on the streets of Luxembourg. MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE is on the march!

A sticker on a street pole with an image from animated feature film MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 27/03/2026

"A feminist Firework!" - from the Tageblat review of MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE by Carole Theisen. The film's theatrical release in Luxembourg starts tomorrow.

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 21/03/2026

The sweet taste of MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE theatrical release in Luxembourg!

My love affair with marriage film poster on candy package

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 26/02/2026

She leans back and feels a knife pointing at her.

A drawing of a knife pointing at a woman

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 26/02/2026

When in Berlin do the East West thing.

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 21/02/2026

Only one week into the Year of the Fire Horse and we already have more fire in our step. (Also 2 days ago my studio building had a brush with fire when someone in the sweatshop below us forgot to turn an iron off)

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 10/02/2026

Baltic Film magazine explores what makes Latvian, Estonian and Lithuanian films so special. One of the interviewees was me! Thank you, Kristīne Simsone! @kinoraksti.bsky.social @latvijasradio.bsky.social issuu.com/blacknightsf...

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 31/12/2025

As the Old Year - what an Ugly King! - slithers away hunched over in shame with its sword limpid, the multitudes of Light and New Energy buzz in ready to take charge. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 24/12/2025

Our talented Team Member Julia Mukai gave us this card wishing us Merry Winter Solstice and Happy New Year! As an animator she drew keyframes of the Lady of the Night flower opening and closing. Brilliant! Here's to many new Moons bringing us many more Blooms!

A drawing by Julia Mukai showing the flower of the Lady of the Night opening and closing

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 21/12/2025

We will feast on the dead body of Darkness. Happy Winter Solstice! 💛💙

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 19/12/2025

An American flag split in two rattles in the wind.

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 12/12/2025

Our Team is working on a new set, with a piano and a goose. Aged walls add a charm! #art #animation

A Picture of a set for stop motion animation scene

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 12/12/2025

Good morning! Love is in the air and on paper in my studio.

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 08/12/2025

Just saw this street art in Brooklyn on top of bunion surgery ad. Beautifully thought out.

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 07/12/2025

Pratt Institute's Women in Animation chapter came to our studio for a studio tour. They were open minded, curious, practical and process oriented. We had a stimulating discussion. My conclusion: the future of Animation is safe in their hands! #Art #Animation

Women in Animation Pratt chapter is visiting Signe Baumane studio.

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 03/12/2025

A drawing of pyramidal neurons passing signals from Amygdala to Prefrontal Cortex. Stop for a moment to appreciate the magic of your brain: the levels of coordination, synchronization and speed it takes to make a simple action like writing or reading this post.

A drawing of pyramidal neurons passing messages

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 02/12/2025

Even my local Deli spontaneously joined DEI.

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 01/12/2025

I am in awe that Alliance of Women Film Journalists dedicated their December Spotlight to an animator, and humbled and honored that the animator they picked was me. THANK YOU, Jennifer Merin and Leslie Combemale! awfj.org/blog/2025/11...

Alliance of Women Film Journalists December Spotlight features an animator Signe Baumane

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 29/11/2025

Bill Plympton’s indie animated feature SLIDE opened yesterday at Cinema Village. What a wild ride! And got to meet the creator, too!

Photo with Bill Plympton at his film SLIDE opening in Cinema Village last night.

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 28/11/2025

Bill Plympton's new animated feature SLIDE opens today at Cinema Village, along with his Oscar qualified short WHALE, Q&As and more! Bring your family to make your Thanksgiving even more surreal than it is! www.cinemavillage.com/Now-Playing/...

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 06/11/2025

We make a set, photograph it then I animate characters into the environment. This particular set is for a scene taking place in Veterinary Theatrum Anatomicum. The production of KARMIC KNOT never stops! #animation #art

A photo of Veterinary Theatrum Anatomicum set for animated feature film KARMIC KNOT.

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 04/11/2025

An ink drawing of elephants reaching out of darkness. What are they groping for?

A drawing of 3 elephants reaching with their trunks

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 03/11/2025

Everybody knows that Baltic countries produce some of the most successful animated films. But very few know the secret ingredient of this success. To shed some light on this mystery Riga International Film Festival organized Baltic Animation Meet-Up and invited me to speak. Photo by Agnese Zeltina.

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 30/10/2025

At the BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER Q&A the director Edward Berger and stars Colin Farrell and Fala Chen talked about their process of making this film about addiction in Macau. For me Macau was the true star of the film - gorgeous, moody, mysterious and made me want to see more of it.

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 29/10/2025

At THE HOUSE OF DYNAMITE Q&A director Kathryn Bigelow said that with the film and its Rashomon structure she wanted to explore what competent people can and cannot do in 19 minutes to save the US and the World. I felt like with many other Netflix flicks the production process was too rushed.

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 27/10/2025

Brinca Studio at Valle de Bravo, México screened my film MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE as part of their monthly private screening series. Here's their report: "We had a full house and everyone loved the film. A lot of laughter out loud, a lot of comments of how beautiful it is." More of this, please!

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 17/10/2025

At the FRANKENSTEIN Q&A director Guillermo del Toro said he was preparing to make this film for 25 years. He might have been overprepared. The film was gorgeous in all departments, each actor gave their 100% but I missed surprise, spontaneity and the mess that comes with creating Art or Life.

Photo of a Q&A after FRANKENSTEIN screening, with director Guillermo del Toro, actors Oscar Isaac and Mia Goth.

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 16/10/2025

After the screening of HAMNET I was thrilled to meet one of my favorite composers Max Richter and the director of my fave A DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL Marielle Heller. Dreams do come true sometimes! HAMNET was milking audience's tear ducts a bit too hard.

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 14/10/2025

Someone gave me flowers in my favorite colors! Slava Ukraini!

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 05/10/2025

GOOD BOY is not a scary movie although it is marketed as horror. It is a metaphorical drama of existential anxiety. The dog Indie is a stunning actor and I really did not appreciate that in the appendix the director revealed the secrets of Indie's magic. The movie certainly has a great poster.

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 21/09/2025

And here it is: the US did not make it to the Global Retirement Report's list of the top 10 countries to retire to, but Latvia did! I don't have plans to retire but if I do now I know where to go! www.globalcitizensolutions.com/intelligence...

Global Citizen Solutions published its Global Retirement Report 2025, ranking 44 passive income and retirement visa programs. This is the list of top 10 countries to retire to.

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 17/09/2025

After LITTLE AMELIE (what a gorgeous film!) screening co-directors Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han said they felt the world today could benefit from being looked at through the lens of a 3-year old, full of wonder and amazement at beauty and fragility of it. Perhaps. Depends of the 3-year old.

a Q&A with LITTLE AMELIE co-directors Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 09/09/2025

Minerva's Life Drawing Studio is exhibiting work of my friend Gordon Fitch who perished in a car crash in May. Come and see it at 91 Canal street, NYC!

A photo os life drawings exhibited at Minerva's Life Drawings Studio

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Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com · 28/08/2025

Worked all day yesterday filling this set with furniture and making it look old, crowded and desperate

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