Sep 18, 2026 · 58 min · 11 segments
Raman Djafari is an illustrator, animator and director based in Berlin. Creating surreal worlds and characters, Raman has directed music videos and promos for artists like Elton John, Dua Lipa…
Raman DjafariGuestMarylou FaureHost
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And you talked about the notion of community throughout all the festivals that you go to and the way that you work.
Is that something that is important to you or that has an impact on your practice and how you do things?
This thing about going to festivals and I've traveled so much the past couple of years.
And I just, I don't know, there was always this nice feeling of like, wow, my work, it carries me on its back into the world.
And encountering that there's, I don't know, like animation, there's a very sweet community.
I don't know, like, there's not this, like, big egos thing that you have in live action.
Like, I have a lot of friends who work as actors or directors in live action, and, like, they all say it's, like, so elbow, cutthroat sometimes, and big personalities, and not that big personalities are bad, like, more like...
And I think in animation, we don't really have that often, so that's really beautiful.
And I also think, I mean, it became part of my work, as in, like, both the motif and the subject matter that I work with, where it's, like...
I don't know, I find it very important to me and it's very beautiful to understand that this is an actual, like, political force.
Like, if you are with people, you can make change happen, but you can also create safe spaces and, like, resilience together.
And having people around you makes it, not to be melodramatic, but, I mean, like, speaking these very large terms, it makes surviving easier.
And I think also then there's a bit of a paradox because in a way, all of this traveling and all of this being in the world and sharing my work and making all of these new communities everywhere in the world, it takes me away from my own community at home where I'm like, I never see my friends because I'm traveling so much.
And like finding the right balances also has been like a challenge in my past couple of years where it's like, what is the right balance? Like how can I be in the world but also belong so to where I am?
And you talked about the notion of community throughout all the festivals that you go to and the way that you work.
Is that something that is important to you or that has an impact on your practice and how you do things?
This thing about going to festivals and I've traveled so much the past couple of years.
And I just, I don't know, there was always this nice feeling of like, wow, my work, it carries me on its back into the world.
And encountering that there's, I don't know, like animation, there's a very sweet community.
I don't know, like, there's not this, like, big egos thing that you have in live action.
Like, I have a lot of friends who work as actors or directors in live action, and, like, they all say it's, like, so elbow, cutthroat sometimes, and big personalities, and not that big personalities are bad, like, more like...
And I think in animation, we don't really have that often, so that's really beautiful.
And I also think, I mean, it became part of my work, as in, like, both the motif and the subject matter that I work with, where it's, like...
I don't know, I find it very important to me and it's very beautiful to understand that this is an actual, like, political force.
Like, if you are with people, you can make change happen, but you can also create safe spaces and, like, resilience together.
And having people around you makes it, not to be melodramatic, but, I mean, like, speaking these very large terms, it makes surviving easier.
And I think also then there's a bit of a paradox because in a way, all of this traveling and all of this being in the world and sharing my work and making all of these new communities everywhere in the world, it takes me away from my own community at home where I'm like, I never see my friends because I'm traveling so much.
And like finding the right balances also has been like a challenge in my past couple of years where it's like, what is the right balance? Like how can I be in the world but also belong so to where I am?
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