Rocks in My Pockets

Rocks in My Pockets (2014)

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A crazy quest for sanity.

The personal story of a woman struggling with an inherited illness, as told by Signe Baumane, the Latvian director-animator living in New York City. With humour and courage, the director sets out on a challenging journey to discover her family’s best-kept secret. Featuring five stories about the courageous women in Signe’s family and their battles with madness, visual metaphors, surreal images and director’s narration.

Date of release
2014-08-21
TMDB
7.7 / 10 (29)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Comedy, Animation, Drama
Director
Signe Baumane

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1

Rocks in My Pockets is a 2014 Latvian-American adult animated autobiographical psychological comedy-drama film written, produced, directed and animated by Signe Baumane. It was originally created in English and a Latvian version was thereafter translated and produced. The film is based on true events about five women of the filmmaker's family, including herself, and their battles with depression and suicide.

Production

Signe Baumane wrote the script for Rocks in My Pockets in 2010, based on her family history. In an unconventional manner, no storyboards were created, only the script was used as a blueprint for the development of the animation.

Rocks in My Pockets was partially funded by grants from NYSCA and the Jerome Foundation in 2010. The organization Women Make Movies became a fiscal sponsor of the film, and Baumane also ran some fundraising events and an IndieGogo campaign. An additional Kickstarter campaign was initiated in 2013 to raise $42,800 in order to complete the coloring, editing, sound and music for the film.

In order to create a visual style for the film that combined elements of both 2D and 3D animation, 28 sets were constructed using plywood, cardboard boxes, and paper-maché, which were then painted to resemble rooms, forests and city streets. The sets were then photographed with a digital camera as either still pictures, or in sequences to create a stop-motion effect.

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