Jake Fried

Director

Jake Fried (1984) began his artistic career as a painter, but as he went through the process of layering and modifying images, he realized what truly interested him was the way the images metamorphosed in the course of making a painting and he changed tracks to become an animator. In recent years his films have been widely shown internationally, including at the Tate Modern, Sundance Film Festival and on Adult Swim. Fried works with ink and white-out, sometimes adding gouache, collage and even coffee to generate hallucinatory vistas, modifying and shooting the images over and over to create mind-bending animations that evolve at a frenzied pace. He currently teaches at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

01-01-1984

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Capricorn

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Total Films

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01-01-1984

Birthday

Capricorn

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Genres

Total Films

Also Known As (male)

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Coldplay: A Film for the Future

The visual accompaniment to Coldplay’s No 1 album Moon Music, created by over 150 different visual artists from 45 countries. Each artist was given a handful of music snippets from Moon Music and asked to create corresponding visuals. There were no rules or guidelines, and no knowledge of other artists’ creations.

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2025

Open Eyes

Hand-drawn animation with ink and white-out.

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2022

The Blank Page

One drawing reworked and scanned frame by frame.

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2020

Harley-Davidson '115th Anniversary'

Commission for Harley-Davidson to celebrate their 115th Anniversary.

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2019

Brain Wave

Hand-drawn animation with ink and white-out.

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2019

Face Mask

Experimental animation with video collage.

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2018

Paper Trail

Hand-drawn animation with ink, white-out and collage.

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2017

Mind Frame

Hand-drawn animation with ink, white-out and coffee. 

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2016

Night Vision

Kaleidoscopic one minute animation windfall from Jake Fried, like penetrating the third eye. Hand-drawn animation with ink and white-out .

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2015

Headspace

Hand-drawn animation with ink, gouache, white-out and coffee.

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2014

Brain Lapse

2014 from Jake Fried - Fractured identities reflecting against a panoramic vista. Hand-drawn animation with ink, white-out, coffee and collage

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2014

Raw Data

Hand-drawn animation with ink, gouache, white-out and coffee.

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2013

The Deep End

Hand-drawn animation with ink, white-out and coffee

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2013

Down Into Nothing

Kaleidoscopic overlays... hand drawn animation with buildings rising and falling, Native Americans crying and highways being formed - among other things. 2013 Hand-drawn animation with ink, gouache, white-out and coffee

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2013

Waiting Room

Hand-drawn animation with ink and white-out.

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2012

Sick Leave

Hand-drawn animation with ink and white-out.

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2012

Nightfall

Hand-drawn animation with ink and white-out.

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2011

Headache

Hand-drawn animation with ink, white-out and crayon.

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2011

Last Meal

Hand-drawn animation with ink and white-out.

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2011