Foreign Exchange

Using a collection of banknotes and sand gathered from over 50 countries, "Foreign Exchange" takes you into a tiny world of dazzling details. What you observe there, and the meaning you derive from that observation depends on where you start your journey. Look closely, it's all in the details...

Foreign Exchange
2019, 5:46min

"Foreign Exchange" explores the tenuous connections and reinventions that keep the global economic tides flowing. The film is made with a unique micro-sand animation stopmotion technique in which the individual grains of sand take on a life of their own.

Director's Statement

Awards

Grand Prix - Neum Animated Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Best of Baltimore - Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival
Outstanding Technical Achievement - AniMAINE
ASIFA-East Women in Animation Award - Experimental Animation

Festivals

2021
Neum Animated Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Zeitgeist Film Festival, Huntington Beach, CA, USA
T-Short Animated Films, Latvia
ASIFA East Animation Festival, New York, NY, USA

2020
ASIFA South Festival and Conference, Atlanta, GA, USA
Athens AnimFest, Athens, Greece
Experimental Superstars, Novi Sad, Serbia
ASIFA International Animation Day Screenings
Buskopolis Festival of Cinematic Oddities, Huntingdon PA, USA
Chesapeake Film Festival, Easton, MD, USA
Supernova Digital Animation Festival, Denver, CO USA
World Festival of Animated Film Varna, Varna, Bulgaria
Atlanta Film Festival, Atlanta, USA
Fest Anca, Zilina, Slovakia
London Experimental, London, UK
Open World Animation Festival, Allentown, PA
Maryland Film Festival Baltimore, MD, USA
Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, NM
Oxford Film Festival, Oxford, MS, USA
Tricky Women Animation Festival, Vienna, Austria
DAM Short Film Festival, Boulder City, NV USA
Worlds Smallest Animation Festival, Montreal, Canada
Eye Myth Festival, Toronto, Canada, postponed due to COVID-19.
Insomniafest, Russia postponed due to COVID-19.
Taos Shortz Film Fest, Cancelled due to COVID-19

2019
Animation Marathon, Athens, Greece
CutOut Fest International Animation Festival, Querétaro, Mexico
Cucalorous Film Festival, Wilmington, NC, USA
AniMaine, Portland, ME, USA
International Animation Festival AJAYU, Puno, Peru
Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival, Baltimore, MD
StopTrik Animation Festival, Maribour, Slovenia