Sasha Svirsky was born in 1980. He graduated from Grekov Art College in Rostov-on-Don, Russia with a painter diploma. Self-taught animation in 2008 he began work also as an independent animation film director. During this time he has created more than 15 animation shorts. He develops his own artistic language by mixing media and continues to make graphics artworks, painting and collages. In his animation he uses a method of an improvisation and challenges stereotypes.

Now he lives in Moscow.

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Sasha Svirsky always strives to expand the limits of animation, graphics and his own possibilities. He consciously avoids directing conventions, and tries to set his inner artist free. Sasha never tries to make his films easy to watch, and consciously rejects Disney animation laws which are still used as guidelines by many professional animators. He revolts against visual uniformity and excessive narrative. He easily travels from abstraction to figurative pieces and back, his films are polystylistical and always improvised.

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His films are often screened in separate festival sections, e.g. experimental animation programmes or ‘films for art lovers’. Svirsky's animation is a synthesis of artistic tools, he creates an avalanche of images, association, symbols – quite often they can not be deciphered if you watch the film only once.

Sasha Svirsky always shoots his films on his own, turning for help only to composers and sound directors.

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‘9 Ways to Draw a Person’ is a collection of short surprising graphic short stories which by their style refer to the Dada movement. The author invites us into the expressive world of abstraction, collage, hand-drawn animation and absurd humour.

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Sasha Svirsky official web: https://www.sashasvirsky.ru

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Trailer to the film ‘9 Ways to Draw a Person’ :