Tania de León Yong
Directing
Biography
Tania de Leon Yong is a Mexican visual artist and academic professor dedicated to experimental animation, drawing, and engraving. In 2013 she was honored with one of the most important academic awards in this country, the National Acknowledgment for Young Academic (Reconocimento Universidad Nacional para Jóvenes Académicos). Nowadays she´s Tenure Professor at the Facultad de Artes y Diseño (UNAM), at Mexico City and she has worked as professor at the Universitat Jaume I at Castellon, Spain; and Tecnológico de Monterrey CCM (ITESM). Her artistic work has been exhibited in different cultural spaces, in different countries: Canada, Germany, Poland, Uruguay, Taiwan, Cuba, Argentina, Brasil and Spain. Her animation films have been projected in different festivals, such as: Experimental Film Festival, Festival de Cine Experimental de Bogotá, Animac Lleida, Animasivo, among others. Her more recent animated project is Chronographs. A Personal Digest of Time. In 2005 Tania obtained the PhD in Fine Arts specialized in Expressive, Formal and Spatial-Temporal Components of Animation, at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), Spain. Before that, she acquired a Master Degree in Multimedia Production for the Internet at the same university. She also has Master Degree in History of Art and a Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Arts both from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).
Known For
The shadows generated throughout the day invite us to walk on the promenade of time.
Chronograph I
The mother-queen-child-cannibal-larva sleeps, not knowing what it means to be awake. She sleeps until the egg disappears, until the universe consumes her and she becomes nothing. Animated linocut print based on a story by Victor Argueta.
Involución, de historias y deshistorias
Zapping Animation is an international collective animation project launched in the context of World Animation Day 2010, with the aim of paying tribute to Émile Reynaud. The animators who participated in Zapping Animation are: Salvador Tovar, Salvador Herrera, Tania de León, Juan Carlos López, Claudio Ramírez Castelli, Lein de León, Carlos Narro, Ma. Carmen Poveda, Elizabeth Ortiz, Jorge Álvarez, María Lorenzo, Sara Álvarez, Rosa Peris, Carmen Lloret, Eva Mocholí, Simón Gerbaud, Eduardo Patoni, Mercedes Peris, Carlos Gamboa, Miguel Vidal, Zulu, José Ángel García Moreno, Héctor Dávila, Mónica Alós, María Ángeles López, Wisab, Miguel Ángel Guillem, and Emiliano González.
Zapping Animation
The change of light during the day and the generated shadows in a small forest is the environment where the gestural drawings dance.
Un Día
An animated drawing about the generational time in my family