ABOUT ME
Ian Kelewae is a mixed media animator and musician, from rural New Jersey. Ian is interested in the magical intertwinement and collision of the human and natural world. Referencing folklore and howling tunes of the vast American landscape Ian pulls from time periods before, molding and morphing them into whimsical explosion. Ian’s animations are swirling, fluid, growing, dense, fresh, slow, fast, dynamic, involuntary, and delicious. His films have been screened globaly, including New York Short Animation Festival, Cartoons Underground, Animist, Open World Film Festival, Ivy Film Festival, Transfiguration Festival. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design BFA May 2025.