Film London Lodestar 2025: Yasmine Djedje-Fisher-Azoume
Film London Lodestars 2025Animation
Yasmine Djedje-Fisher-Azoume is a freelance animator based in London, currently working as a producer at an independent animation studio. Her animation work is typically a blend of digitally drawn 2D animation, traditional paper animation and analogue techniques, and draws thematic and aesthetic influences principally from her West African (Ivorian) heritage. African wood carvings, bronze sculptures and ceremonial relics, the textures and colours of textiles and traditional dress are all foundational sources that have informed the evolving direction of her practice.
Relationship to Film London
FLAMIN Animations 2023-2024
Yasmine’s work is defiantly hand-made, keeping the tradition of analogue animation alive while innovating with experimental new techniques. Commissioned through FLAMIN Animations, Dédé combines charcoal drawings with over two hundred hand-embossed copper sheets in a bold exploration of West African sculpture and cosmology and recently screened at South London Gallery. Her determination to work with such unwieldy materials was truly admirable, and we were impressed by her diligence and commitment to the project. Since completing this project, she has been commissioned by Create London to respond to the history of the flooding of Creekmouth Village in 1953.