Clyde Petersen
- Producer
- Animation Department
- Director
Clyde Petersen, b. 1980,
Based in Washington, USA
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Clyde Petersen is a Northwest artist, working in film, animation, music, installation, and fabulous spectacle.
He re-creates lost worlds and documents culture that has been largely erased by AIDS, capitalism and gentrification. He works to offer alternate, more equitable realities and futures through the reexamination of overlooked histories. His work is slow and patient, animating only a few seconds of film a day, gathering new oral histories and building scale-model worlds to tell stories in.
Clyde collaborated with the Northwest band Earth for five years, interviewing and touring with them to create the documentary film Even Hell has its Heroes. This feature film is shot entirely on Super 8mm and will premiere in 2023.
Clyde is also the director of Torrey Pines, a stop-motion animated feature film with a live score that premiered in 2016 and toured the world for two years, accompanied by his band, Your Heart Breaks. Torrey Pines is an autobiographical film about growing up with a schizophrenic mother as a queer youth in the early '90s.
Clyde is working on a new feature film entitled Our Forbidden Country, a stop-motion animated film about the history of gay cruising in pre-AIDS Seattle.
Using large-scale installations to draw viewers into the landscape of his films, Clyde's solo exhibitions often feature life-size replicas of objects and nature. Made entirely of cardboard, these landscapes fill the room and surround his film projections.
He re-creates lost worlds and documents culture that has been largely erased by AIDS, capitalism and gentrification. He works to offer alternate, more equitable realities and futures through the reexamination of overlooked histories. His work is slow and patient, animating only a few seconds of film a day, gathering new oral histories and building scale-model worlds to tell stories in.
Clyde collaborated with the Northwest band Earth for five years, interviewing and touring with them to create the documentary film Even Hell has its Heroes. This feature film is shot entirely on Super 8mm and will premiere in 2023.
Clyde is also the director of Torrey Pines, a stop-motion animated feature film with a live score that premiered in 2016 and toured the world for two years, accompanied by his band, Your Heart Breaks. Torrey Pines is an autobiographical film about growing up with a schizophrenic mother as a queer youth in the early '90s.
Clyde is working on a new feature film entitled Our Forbidden Country, a stop-motion animated film about the history of gay cruising in pre-AIDS Seattle.
Using large-scale installations to draw viewers into the landscape of his films, Clyde's solo exhibitions often feature life-size replicas of objects and nature. Made entirely of cardboard, these landscapes fill the room and surround his film projections.
