Mira Yankova
Disturbia, 06:23 min, Color, Streo, Bulgaria, 2025
Before our very eyes a strange human-bird hybrid undergoes constant transformation to cope with the omnipresent tensions of economical, ideological, military, and climatic threats.
Mira Yankova is born in Sofia, Bulgaria. She graduated the National Art Academy in Sofia and has a Master degree in “Cinema and television direction” in New Bulgarian University. She works as an artist, designer, 2D and 3D animator and director in the field of video-art and animation. Since 2021 she has been teaching animation at the New Bulgarian University.
In her recent visual works, she deals with the exploration of the internal drives in the personality and the social system. She uses the classic hand-drawn animation as media in her latest works and creates short absurd films rich with symbolism and dark humor. The artistic animations of Mira Yankova are deliberately rough – drawn, confusing and upsetting. They are loaded with unconscious imports and seem oddly comic. They offer the viewer a disturbing narrative that aims to bring him out of his comfort zone and direct his attention to the real inner engines of human behavior and social adaptation.