The Girl With The Rivet Gun

Danielle Ash

(Animation Director) Danielle Ash is an experimental filmmaker and stop-motion animation director who works with a variety of methods and materials to create animated art. Scratching imagery onto repurposed 70mm film, creating virtual reality experiences, building miniature puppet theatre installations, and creating the animated cardboard films, Pickles for Nickels, a love story about the disappearing pickle shops of New York City, Bartender’s Tale, a short for Jack Daniel’s whiskey, and learning to count to the number 4, with Counting 4 Wheels for Sesame Street, Danielle’s playful handmade style has reached a wide audience. The Girl With the Rivet Gun is her most recent animation in stop-motion utilizing sets and characters made of cardboard material. 

Winner of the Helen Hill Animation Award, she has taught, shown her work and appeared as a visiting artist at The Museum of the Moving Image, College of the Atlantic, The Black Maria Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Brooklyn College and Sarah Lawrence College. Currently teaching 3D Animation Filmmaking in the Digital Arts Department at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.

She studied fine art and avant-garde filmmaking at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received her masters from the Experimental Animation Program at CalArts. Danielle enjoys playing along to old records on her musical saw, and is now working in her upstate studio in the woods on her next film about the fate of the Ash trees.