Creates:
Animated nonfiction films that leave your head buzzing.
Has made work about:
Whales, swingers, originality, Thanksgiving, and the man who killed John Wilkes Booth.
Got a call:
Right before the Genius Awards from his dad, saying, “You’re not going to get that award.”
In Song of the Spindle, a short film by animator Drew Christie that screened at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, a bearded, Drew Christie–like man engages in conversation with a whale. The man blurts brief status updates from his 21st-century life while the whale eloquently holds forth on an array of topics: its own evolution from land creature to sea creature, the hows and whys of neurons…
