Beneath The Surface With Skin Diver Creator Katya Abedian | Part Two
Orms Air: The Orms Podcast
English - July 07, 2019 21:00 - 46 minutes - 31.8 MBVisual Arts Arts Technology orms photography dslr camera mirrorless camera photographer creative arts inspiration technology artist visual art Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This episode of Orms Air, the Orms Podcast is split into two parts, this is part two.
Join us as we dive beneath the skin of Katya Abedian; writer, producer and director of breath-taking short film Skin Diver.
Referred to as an ode to the tender hearted, this coming-of-age short short sheds much needed light on the power hidden beneath the surface of the empathic at heart who are unapologetically themselves.
In this episode of Orms Air, host Rachel Reeves and producer Jess Semple continue the conversation with Katya as she shares her creative beginnings, the female-centric future of the film industry and takes us on a journey to the well from which she draws creative enrichment.
Haven’t watched Skin Diver? We would highly recommend that you do. Preferably on a screen bigger than your smartphone! It can be found on Vimeo with a simple title search or by following this link.
In this episode Katya references the following books, films and creatives who enriched her childhood and her current creative journey:
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniAtonement by Ian McEwan, and film by Joe WrightBoth 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange and Barry Lyndon by director Stanley Kubrick Composer Max Richter’s musicThe 2014 UNESCO study that Rachel references when the discussion turns to the representation of female creatives within the film industry can be found in this document by the National Film and Video Foundation here.
Katya shares with us a saying from her Baha'i upbringing relating to the power of equality, which can be found here.
Katya references the following creatives as being a part of her well of creative enrichment: