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Jane Aaron, {1985} Traveling Light

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“Through eating and drinking bread and beer passed to him over a corpse, the sin-eater was believed to take upon himself the sins of the dead; but as soon as the ritual was over, he was reviled as a scapegoat and driven away with curses and blows to live in isolation on the fringes of his community... His abjection has also been connected with postcolonial themes; his community projects upon him the self-hatred it experiences as a subjugated people.”

Jane Aaron, Welsh Gothic

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(via To Save & Project Features Preserved Works by Jane Aaron)

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Celebrating women film directors born on April 16th... 

Happy Birthday, Jane Aaron, Jennifer Nicole Stang, Manuela Martelli, Margreth Olin, Meghan O'Hara, Toby Poser and Xu Jinglei!

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Obit of the Day: Animating Sesame Street

You’ve likely seen hundreds of pieces of Jane Aaron’s work. A stop-motion animator who has exhibited pieces at the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Biennial and The New York Film Festival, her largest audience was comprised of millions of pre-schoolers who learned about numbers and letters through her animated shorts.

Ms. Aaron, a native New Yorker who attended what is now Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, created over 150 shorts for Sesame Street. She also created animated works for Between the Lions, Nick at Nite, and HBO Family, which produced her Sometimes I Feel… televised shorts adapted from her book series of the same name. 

Jane Aaron, who also illustrated No More Secrets for Me, a book about child abuse adapted from the film she created with Oralee Wachter, died on June 27, 2015. She was 67 years old.

Sources: NY Times, JaneAaron.com, and Animation World Network (this obituary has several videos featuring her work)

(Video of “Five Waltzing Chairs” is courtesy of Robert Lyons, director of photography for this sesamestreet short which was created by Jane Aaron.)

Other sesamestreet-related obituaries:

Tony Geiss - Creator of Abby Cadabby

Jerry Nelson - Voice of The Count