The Blackheart Gang

Film & Animation/2010/18 min/Reel № 10.001

ByJannes Hendrikz

The Blackheart Gang: animation and the Tale of How

Let It Out!/Recorded 2010

The Blackheart Gang
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A close reading, kept within reach.

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Jannes Hendrikz takes film & animation as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.

Recorded in South Africa in 2010, the conversation is grounded in Jannes's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.

The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.

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Animators The Blackheart Gang talk about their diverse creative influences and the commercial value of animation.

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About the speaker

Jannes Hendrikz

Cape Town/South Africa

Jannes Hendrikz is the compositor and creative director of the Blackheart Gang by night, and TVC director for Shy the Sun by day