Hi, I'm Keanu Hoi, an animator and filmmaker

Keanu Hoi is an animation lecturer and PhD candidate studying how animated previsualisation impacts collaboration, creativity and authorship. The PhD research was born from his experiences in the film and animation industry, noticing the strange divisions between these two worlds. His journey with animation began as a child when he underwent alternative dyslexia treatment, which involved modelling hundreds of clay dioramas that told stories about the words he struggled with reading and writing. This led to him making claymations with the same clay used in his treatment. Later he attended film school at the Australian Film Television and Radio School in Sydney. Here he began to blend his love for all kinds of filmmaking processes, both animated and live-action. His work has premiered on Adult Swim (USA), MUBI, CineQuest (California), Melbourne International Animation Festival, Sydney Fringe Festival and Soft Centre (Australia) & Cinanima (Portugal), among others.