Marjo Palokangas

Animation, illustration and some graphic design. Currently studying animation at Stockholm university of the arts. Visit marjopalokangas.se

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Two illustrations I made for the magazine Bang on the hunger riots in Sweden in 1917. About hunger, feelings and weakness today and the heritage of the socialist fights in the past.

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Illustration made for the magazine Brand with the theme (Trans national) Social strike

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So the process to build a doll on an armature has begun, yey!

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Back to school and character design!

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Vacay doodles

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Just doodled some on the sunny balcony

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Semestern har börjat!

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Trailer for our first-year short film – Södra vakthuset / The Southern gatehouse 

Stockholm, 1940’s. Beckomberga psyciatric hospital is housing thousands of patients. At its southern border lies a gate and a small gatehouse. Countless people pass through over the decades. But eventually the hospital closes down, and the area begins to change.

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Some backgrounds I made, and a wip animation

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Work in progress, bakgrundsbild av Marjo Palokangas

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In january the class started a collaborative project which now has become a short movie. It all started with a walk in a neighbourhood with a former mental hospital.

After forming a common concept and idea we split into some smaller groups to make different pre production things. Me and Elle wrote the script, while the others started to make the design, story board and animatic.

New houses are built, and there is a lot of condominiums for sale in the area, but there are few tenancies.

Directly when I saw the little pink gate house I felt it was a piece of history that just been left there, sandwiched between the newly built high-rises.

The hospital building is still there, and is know renovated to (quite) fancy apartments. 

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Marjos och Augusts tolkning av pxilationsövningen från början av året!

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A short little stop motion about two nordic lemmings in Kilpisjärvi. Done by me and Eleonor Frankenberg

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Our class got an invitation from a nordic based climate project called KONNECT to come to a week long visit/meet-up in Kilpisjärvi in Finnish Lappland on a biological research station. The vision was to make connections with scientists and artists, to have an exchange and make something interesting and relevant, given that we face a major climate change that is disastrous and all that (well you know!)

Elle, me and our teacher Lina went and our goal was to get inspired but also do something right there at the place. Small or big. And this is what we did there. We started to dig holes in the snow, thinking of cover, and somehow we started to think about the lemmings. Building their underground tunnels.. Where are they in wintertime? They are a natural part of the ecological system in the mountains.  ..Also we got a secret little message from the earth from within, I think? 

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An illustration I made for the anarchist magazine Brand. The article is about fighting occupants in Krakow, Poland, that have been living in houses that the state got after the owners died (mostly after the Second WW). Now there has been a huge problem with stakeholders making fraud, faking that they know the owners and claim the houses which truly not are theirs. 

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A comic I made for the anarchist magazine Brand discussing organizing strategies on the web. I thought I’d be sharing some of my thoughts on selfies as activism and in what way they are or aren’t and could or couldn’t be used as feministic tools.