One day, Rachel Shiloach packed all of her obsessions, and left home: three dogs, six chickens, two younger brothers and sister in a tiny village atop a mountain. She departed from arid Israel to promised Boston to study at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University. There, she explored expressive movement through video, dance, and printmaking. Her main concerns, regarding her art, were how to reach a core of a subject, tell a multilayered story in a sincere way, and save a touch of improvisation, imagination, and humour.
Once she graduated, she moved back to Israel to teach art to children- who naturally access improvisation, imagination and humour, and to take part in the art community through curating exhibitions and exhibiting her own work. The hunger to learn and create in the medium of animation (the ultimate combination of movement and imagery) pattered and pattered until she was accepted to the Directing Animation course at the National Film and Television School, UK.
She is now there, with the same old concerns about artmaking, working on her graduation film about a small boy and a large fire. Her parents, two special educators, are still waiting for her to maybe put her feet up for a bit and visit home, but her appetite for new stories to tell will always keep her moving with eyes wide open.
Her favourite adventures occurred in Paris, France where she studied as an exchange student at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, and Walden, Vermont, where she lived in a small house with only the seasons to signify the time passing.
For collaborations, new projects and other adventures:
