“Reelteens”

Excerpt from the Star Tribune article for Thursday, June 8th, 2006

By Allie Shah

 

Kari Jo Skogquist is another local youth filmmaker on the rise. Her animated short “Face” was a crowd favorite at the All-City Youth Film Showcase held earlier this year at the Walker Art Center.  Some of her other films have been featured on www.youtube.com.

Skogquist got her start in ninth grade in a broadcasting class at St. Francis High School. Previously, her tools were a sketchbook and pen. “Once I had access to equipment, cameras and computers, I had a whole new set of things play with,” she said.

A recent graduate of the Perpich Center for Arts Education, a local arts high school, Skogquist created the clay animation short “Face” over six weeks. In the movie, a person’s eyes and mouth fall off and eventually find their way back onto the owner’s face.

“I do tend to gravitate toward the more quirky, surrealistic sort of things,” Skogquist said. “Growing up, some of my favorite movie directors were Tim Burton and Terry Gilliam.”

A self-described visual person, Skogquist said it’s fun to see her vision come to fruition.

“That’s part of why I find working with this medium so fun. You can actually create these whole worlds.”