RUAH EDELSTEIN ARTIST
All troubles come from the fact that people think that the brain is in the head.
Not at all. It is brought by the wind from the Caspian Sea. - GOGOL
Ruah Edelstein
Animation Artist | animation director | Educator
Ruah Edelstein is a Lithuanian-American animation film director and a contemporary artist known for a body of conceptual work including films, paintings, and site-specific installations.
Since 2008 Ruah Edelstein has directed and produced over 50 films. In 2012, together with filmmaker Masha Vasilkovsky, Ruah co-founded Lumen Animae Studios based in Los Angeles. The studio has presented work at Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals among others, Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles, US Open Tennis Championship, Holocaust Museum Los Angeles. Awards include: the SIMA Award and Emmy Nomination for film “Ashe ’68”.
Ruah is on the faculty at CalArts, teaching film production in the Department of Character Animation since 2012 and has been a guest artist at the Film University of Babelsberg, Seoul Institute of the Arts, UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television.
Since 2008 Ruah Edelstein has directed and produced over 50 films. In 2012, together with filmmaker Masha Vasilkovsky, Ruah co-founded Lumen Animae Studios based in Los Angeles. The studio has presented work at Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals among others, Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles, US Open Tennis Championship, Holocaust Museum Los Angeles. Awards include: the SIMA Award and Emmy Nomination for film “Ashe ’68”.
Ruah is on the faculty at CalArts, teaching film production in the Department of Character Animation since 2012 and has been a guest artist at the Film University of Babelsberg, Seoul Institute of the Arts, UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television.