This interview with Michelle and Uriel Kranot offers an in-depth look at a creative partnership built on shared references, mutual trust and productive disagreement.

Filmmakers, artists, researchers and teachers at The Animation Workshop in Denmark, Michelle and Uriel reflect on their paths into animation and on the early student collaborations that became the foundation for their work together. They describe how their different strengths shape the process, with design, color, composition, character, space, time and abstraction constantly meeting and challenging one another.

A central theme in the conversation is the connection between life and work. Their films often draw from personal experience, migration, cultural memory and the feeling of not fully fitting into the fabric of society. Even when their work becomes fictional, political, poetic or immersive, it remains connected to lived experience and to the world around them.

The interview also explores their creative method, which begins in chaos and grows from fragments collected over time: poems, images, newspaper clippings, sentences and impressions that may lie dormant for years before becoming the seed of a film. The Hangman at Home is discussed as an example of how one text, among many, can suddenly resonate at the right moment.

Michelle and Uriel also reflect on the realities of funding, co-productions and working across different systems, especially in Denmark and France. Their move into VR, XR and immersive media is described not as a break from animation, but as another technique, another way of expressing how it feels to be in the world.

The result is a thoughtful portrait of two artists who continue to move between film, installation, performance and immersive torytelling, guided by the belief that each project must be allowed to reveal its own form.