Gisela Mulindwa
Gisela Mulindwa is an experimental animator and visual artist based in London. A graduate in Animation from Edinburgh College of Art, her practice takes an experimental mixed media approach to animation, working between stop motion, collage, paint and analogue film to create dense and complex textures. She challenges social expectations around identity to unravel the relationship between self, other and the unconscious, revealing a world shaped by magical realism.
Mulindwa’s work has screened at festivals including the Edinburgh International Film Festival and Tricky Women Animation Festival, and she was commissioned to produce animations for the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing in 2021 and 2022. Committed to challenging audience expectations of what animation can be, her work as an animator has led to moving image commissions for theatre projects at Theatre Peckham and Vault Festival.
Portrait of Gisela Mulindwa. Courtesy of the artist
Watch: Gisela Mulindwa, Start with a Place (2024), excerpt
Gisela Mulindwa, Start with a Place (2024), still
Gisela Mulindwa, Start with a Place (2024), film still. Commissioned through FLAMIN Animations.
Watch: Gisela Mulindwa, The Place I Like to Call (2023), excerpt
Gisela Mulindwa, The Place I Like to Call (2023), still
Gisela Mulindwa, The Place I Like to Call (2023), still
Watch: Gisela Mulindwa, Who Are You Wearing? (2021), trailer
Gisela Mulindwa, Who Are You Wearing? (2021), still
Gisela Mulindwa, Who Are You Wearing? (2021), still
Gisela Mulindwa, Discussing the Magical Negro (2021), still
Gisela Mulindwa, Discussing the Magical Negro (2021), still
Tatenda Naomi Matsvai, Dark Matter, Vault Festival, London (February 2023), performance documentation. Animation design by Gisela Mulindwa.
Tatenda Naomi Matsvai, Dark Matter, Vault Festival, London (February 2023), performance documentation. Animation design by Gisela Mulindwa.
Watch: Gisela Mulindwa, Pigs (2020), excerpt
Gisela Mulindwa, Pigs (2020), still
Gisela Mulindwa, Pigs (2020), still
Watch: Gisela Mulindwa, Night Tube (2019)
Gisela Mulindwa, Night Tube (2019), still
Gisela Mulindwa, Night Tube (2019), still
