Michelle Brand is an award-winning animation director and sound designer based in Berlin, who works across a wide range of aesthetics, focusing on visualising abstract ideas in abstract ways. Heavily influenced by avant-garde, abstract and contemporary art movements, she is completely obsessed with geometric shapes, straight lines and perfectly round circles. Her films attempt to visualise philosophical concepts, with a special focus on time, change and movement, blurring the lines between theory and practice. Her latest film ‘Any Instant Whatever’ screened at many festivals and received multiple awards, including winning at Raindance and Rhode Island, and got longlisted for an Academy Award in 2022.