Swipe: A Visual Review
On the surface Swipe - an animated short film, explores religious intolerance, morality, violence and the motives behind it. It...
Isma Gul Hasan is an illustrator based in Lahore, Pakistan. She received her Bachelor's degree in Visual Communication Design from Beaconhouse National University in 2017, and completed an MA in Illustration from Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London in 2020. Working within the realms of speculative fiction and design for social change, her work explores themes like memory, hope, agency and control in relation to patriarchal oppression and violence. Hasan has worked as an illustrator and animator at Shehri Pakistan, an initiative aiming to provide accessible civic education through audio-visual content, and was the creative director for the first ever dystopian, traditionally animated Pakistani short film Shehr-e-Tabassum, which was screened both locally and internationally, and received critical acclaim.
On the surface Swipe - an animated short film, explores religious intolerance, morality, violence and the motives behind it. It...
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