Sep 18, 2026 · 58 min · 13 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 DjafariGuest
Sara AndreassonHostMarylou FaureHostAnd 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.
yeah and it's really really sweet 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 in the not that big personalities are bad like more like big egos that you want yeah and I think in animation we don't really have that often so that's really beautiful yeah and I also think I mean it became part of my work as in like both a motif and a subject matter that I work with where it's like I find it very important to me and it's very beautiful to understand that this is an actual political force.
If you are with people, you can make change happen, but you can also create safe spaces and resilience together.
Being alone is fucking hard and having people around you makes it, not to be melodramatic, but 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?
I mean, there's loads of festivals going on, you know, it's something that can take a lot of your time and a lot of your attention.
But I really feel what you said about, because I had never been to Pictoplasma before and I've not been to many animation festivals, but there was something so incredibly soft and wholesome and sweet and caring and creative and friendly.
And I think for both me and Sarah, it was super inspiring to be there and And yeah, and it was great not to have ego, big egos around, because in the design industry, there's definitely a lot of big egos.
But I do wonder though, because like what you said, Marilu, we're both like, what is this? Because I guess we're like slightly outside of that world.
Why do you think that is? Why do you think animators specifically are so generous? And so, yeah, so generous with their time and with their sort of energy and...
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.
yeah and it's really really sweet 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 in the not that big personalities are bad like more like big egos that you want yeah and I think in animation we don't really have that often so that's really beautiful yeah and I also think I mean it became part of my work as in like both a motif and a subject matter that I work with where it's like I find it very important to me and it's very beautiful to understand that this is an actual political force.
If you are with people, you can make change happen, but you can also create safe spaces and resilience together.
Being alone is fucking hard and having people around you makes it, not to be melodramatic, but 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?
I mean, there's loads of festivals going on, you know, it's something that can take a lot of your time and a lot of your attention.
But I really feel what you said about, because I had never been to Pictoplasma before and I've not been to many animation festivals, but there was something so incredibly soft and wholesome and sweet and caring and creative and friendly.
And I think for both me and Sarah, it was super inspiring to be there and And yeah, and it was great not to have ego, big egos around, because in the design industry, there's definitely a lot of big egos.
But I do wonder though, because like what you said, Marilu, we're both like, what is this? Because I guess we're like slightly outside of that world.
Why do you think that is? Why do you think animators specifically are so generous? And so, yeah, so generous with their time and with their sort of energy and...
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