Jenny Jokela
Directing
Biography
Jenny Jokela (1990) is a Finnish animation director and illustrator based in the UK. She graduated from Royal College of Art in 2017, where she studied MA Animation. Her graduation film Barbeque has won multiple awards including Cristal at Annecy 2018. Since 2018, Jenny directs and animates Finnish kids TV show Hoppsorna. In her colourful and expressive personal work Jenny explores visualising the invisible; feelings and emotions, often around the topics of sexuality and trauma.
Known For
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.
Coldplay: A Film for the Future
We get to follow Arne and his friends on their adventures where they encounter different challenges and do their best to solve them together. With their likeable and unique personalities – quirky, kind and brave – they make a perfect group of friends.
Arne Alligator och djungelkompisarna
A group of neighbours, each focused on their own goals, must learn to communicate and consider one another. But when small, everyday actions trigger unexpected consequences, they are forced into interactions that challenge their independence.
Dollhouse Elephant
Sweet Like Lemons is a visual reflection on getting out of a harmful relationship and moving on. The title is a play on the saying “when life gives you lemons make lemonade”, only in this case there is no lemonade to be made but the lemons still taste sweeter than what you left behind.
Sweet Like Lemons
How do mermaids give birth and where are the lines between creature and human?
Barbeque
Live a Little is a visual poem about the anxieties and struggles of fitting in and acting in accordance with the social norms of how a young.