Shriya Surana

Shriya Surana is an emerging animator and director whose work explores the boundaries between 2D non-fiction animation and tactile stop motion. Preferring handmade methods over digital automation, she often creates her animations using cut-outs from her own drawings or sculpted clay elements, embracing imperfection and process as central parts of her artistic voice.

Her films draw inspiration from research, conversation, and material experimentation. In her recent work, including Mother Tongue (2025), she investigates themes of language and cultural identity through interviews and visual abstraction. Surana’s creative practice reflects her fascination with physical media—old photographs, decayed film, and textures marked by time—which she manipulates to reveal beauty in deterioration.

Guided by curiosity and introspection, Surana sees animation as a living dialogue between thought and movement. She encourages new artists to look beyond mainstream studios and rediscover animation as the simple, profound study of motion in all its forms.