Shir Daniel

Visual Communication (MA)
Shir Daniel
Illustrated scene of a figure walking on a beach holding a surfboard, reaching upward toward a white parachute in the sky. A large dove flies in the foreground. The image has a painterly, textured riso style with soft blue and sandy tones.
Illustrated scene of a figure walking on a beach holding a surfboard, reaching upward toward a white parachute in the sky. A large dove flies in the foreground. The image has a painterly, textured riso style with soft blue and sandy tones.
Frame from the film "Seascape"
Illustrated scene of two figures walking toward each other on a narrow bridge or pathway over a body of water. Their reflections are visible in the water, surrounded by painterly textures in blue, white, and brown tones
Illustrated scene of two figures walking toward each other on a narrow bridge or pathway over a body of water. Their reflections are visible in the water, surrounded by painterly textures in blue, white, and brown tones
Frame from the film "Seascape"
Seascape – Trailer / A short preview from Seascape, a mixed-media animated documentary film. Original music: Gal Bachar, Sound mixing: Joe Hirst, Colorist: Gal Issar, Translation proofreading for the film: Yonatan Kaplan
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This PDF includes selected frames from Seascape, a short animated documentary by Shir Daniel, alongside spreads from the accompanying research booklet. The booklet brings together visual and written components developed throughout the project, combining research, personal reflection, material experimentation, and process documentation. Together, the film and publication investigate how the sea can be mapped through memory, blurring the boundaries between documentary and emotional landscapes, biography and collective experience, through a multidisciplinary visual language.
Illustrated scene of a figure walking on a beach holding a surfboard, reaching upward toward a white parachute in the sky. A large dove flies in the foreground. The image has a painterly, textured riso style with soft blue and sandy tones.
Illustrated scene of two figures walking toward each other on a narrow bridge or pathway over a body of water. Their reflections are visible in the water, surrounded by painterly textures in blue, white, and brown tones

About

Shir Daniel is a visual designer and visual storyteller based between London and Tel Aviv. She holds a BA in Visual Communication from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. Her practice explores memory, place, rhythm, and narrative through mixed media, drawing on techniques such as animation, art direction, typography, and documentary research. She was awarded a full scholarship from the Clore Foundation and Bezalel Academy for her MA studies at the RCA.

Seascape is a mixed-media animated documentary and a showcase piece within a broader research project exploring how the sea can be mapped through memory, using experimental documentary methods and reflection on the Sea, a mass of water deceptively transparent, made mercurial by war, loss, and the weight of memory, its thick liquid channels pulling me back toward distance.

Rooted in both research and biography, and suspended between escapism and escape, the film navigates and animates personal and collective narratives, interwoven by way of the sea. At the heart of the work are intimate conversations and thoughts, tracing trauma and history across generations as they flow and shift along with the current.  

The visual language of the film shifts between classical documentary imagery and moments where memory takes over the frame, infusing it with emotion and shifting its meaning through a range of visual techniques. The imagery is rooted in photographs from the shoreline where Shir grew up, interwoven with scenes from coastal towns across the UK.

 

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