Aindri Chakraborty is an animation graduate from National Institute of Design, India and she completed MA in illustration at Central Saint Martins in 2011. Based in London, she collaborates with film makers and animation directors on various independent projects. As her practice leads her to explore image making through experimental animation and illustration, with her penchant for storytelling she produces content and sound for television idents and animation shorts.

One can never be completely empty of stories to tell.

I am interested in the narrative structure of mythologies and of stories within a story.

Most of my work probably stems from those long drawn powercuts during the evenings in Calcutta. The elders in our family would gather the kids and narrate surreal tales that often masked grim historical moments. In the dark, these stories would take incandescent shapes in my head.

I like writing my own content and realizing them through animation.

I am going to work with Spanish animator Isabel Herguera on an upcoming animation film this September.This is our second collaboration. Her previous film, AMAR was an abstract travelogue of India.

My first inspirations were Misha, a children’s magazine published from the erstwhile Soviet Union and the tales of Feluda, detective stories written and illustrated by Satyajit Ray.

Film school introduced me to the works of Jan Svankmajer, Paul Drissen, and animation films produced by Zagreb Film during the 60s. I am drawn to the experimental side of animation, no more mere “cartoons” to me and am always inspired by films that are hand crafted by the storyteller.