Em Cooper
British filmmaker and animator
Em Cooper is a British filmmaker and animator. She is best known for her distinctive hand-painted oil-paint animation style and as the director of the oil-painted music video for The Beatles song "I'm Only Sleeping" released in 2022 and created with more than 1,300 of Cooper's oil paintings.
Her direction of the music video for "I'm Only Sleeping" won it the Grammy Award for Best Music Video at the 66th Grammy Awards. In 2023, the film also won the Jury Award for a Commissioned Film at Annecy International Animation Film Festival; Best Animation at the Shark Music Video Awards; Gold at the Creative Circle Awards (Best Music Video Animation). In 2018, Cooper was nominated for an Emmy for her animation sequences for the PBS features documentary Deej.
Career
Born in Cambridge, England, Cooper works as an animator specialising in combining oil-painted animation with live-action film to create sequences which evoke a stream of consciousness, or portray subjective experience.
Early in her career, after graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2010, Cooper directed the animation sequences for Eric Steel's feature documentary Kiss The Water. The film received critical acclaim by the British press including Time Out, The Times, The Observer, The Financial Times and The Telegraph. The film was later named one of the ten best documentaries of the year by BBC film critic Mark Kermode. In 2015, the film was screened on BBC television.
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