Jennifer Linton

Delighted to announce that The Music of the Spheres is an official selection at Femtasia Fest in Los Angeles, a fantastic festival which showcases films directed, written, or produced by women, femme, and non-binary experimental and independent filmmakers

These past few weeks, I’ve been working on a grant application for a new animation project: an adaptation of a very dark and gory fairytale by the Brothers Grimm entitled “The Juniper Tree” (1812). Features child decapitation, cannibalism, ghost-birds and violent revenge. In short, precisely my sort of thing. The proposed film will be created using paper cuts and articulated paper puppets, all done in a backlit, silhouette style perfect for this early 19th-century dark fairytale.

These images are concept art of the paper cutouts and puppets, shot on my light box. The red is coloured acetate (actually lighting gels for photography) and the grey is achieved by using regular white, 50 lb. sketching paper. The black silhouettes are 90 lb. black drawing paper. These
images are “proof of concept”, and not necessarily final art.

I've surprised myself by completing my short animated film, "The Music of the Spheres", ahead of schedule. At just over 7 minutes long, this is my longest and (I think) best animation to date.

Here’s the synopsis:
“Three celestial beings contemplate a post-human Earth where newly hybridized lifeforms have evolved out of the debris of the Anthropocene. Combining references to the hermetic art of alchemy, Catholic liturgical art, and the iconography of the Tarot, The Music of the Spheres blends cosmology with an urgent message of ecology.”

And now, on to film festival submissions.

Get ready for a cosmic journey!
"The Music of the Spheres", my upcoming animated short, explores a post-human Earth where new lifeforms thrive.

• Hybrid creatures rise from Anthropocene debris
• Ecology meets cosmology in this epic tale

Tentative release: April 2026. Stay tuned!

At last, I’ve completed the interior room of the two towers. My plan is to reuse the design for both towers — one for the Moon, and the other for the Sun — but change the colour scheme. The Moon tower is an analogous mix of blues, pinks and purples with the accent colour of silver.

This character is loosely based on the High Priestess archetype from the Tarot.