Above: Modified image clip from A Comforting Thought by Donna Golden

Saturday Fantasy Q+A is our ongoing post series that probes the thoughts and insights of individuals participating in sci-fi, fantasy and horror genres.

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Donna Golden is a digital media artist and filmmaker. She creates processed, collaged, remixed, animated videos exploring our relationships to history, memory, language, and power. Before coming to Los Angeles to study experimental animation, she worked as an editor in New York and participated in art/activist collectives creating multimedia projects exhibited at festivals and museums in the US and abroad. Her videos have been shown at the Black Maria Film & Video Festival, the Museum of Modern Art’s Documentary Fortnight series, and the Atlanta Underground Film Festival. She holds a BA in US History from Columbia University and is a (soon-to-be!) MFA grad in Experimental Animation from California Institute of the Arts.

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Image via JoshuaDysart.com

Saturday Fantasy guest speaker Joshua Dysart was recently featured in a New York Times article for his work on Unknown Soldier, the comic book series published by Vertigo. The article is insightful to Joshua’s process— which included a trip to Africa to immerse himself in the topic— and the story that emerges from it.

To learn more about Joshua, please visit his website: www.joshuadysart.com